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yendiDon't click on this link if you have any trigger issues over rape or molestation. That said, I can't not publicize this asshole judge (yes, there are assholes in judicial systems in other countries, too!).
Frankly, I would consider beating the crap out of Canadian judges named Fred Kovatch to be the epitome of a victimless crime.
Beating the crap out of him and also shoving a hardcover copy of Piers Anthony's Firefly (from which the moron obviously gets his judicial "knowledge") as far as possible into his rectum would earn bonus points.
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Frankly, I would consider beating the crap out of Canadian judges named Fred Kovatch to be the epitome of a victimless crime.
Beating the crap out of him and also shoving a hardcover copy of Piers Anthony's Firefly (from which the moron obviously gets his judicial "knowledge") as far as possible into his rectum would earn bonus points.
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Date: 2003-09-12 10:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-12 10:21 am (UTC)WHAT??! First, how the HELL does being raised in an abusive home support the defense's theory? Secondly, even if this girl was "the sexual aggressor," she's a fuckin' 12 year old! If a grown man - much less three grown men - is sleeping with a 12 year old, he still needs to be tossed into jail.
Grr.
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Date: 2003-09-12 10:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-12 10:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-12 10:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-15 05:04 am (UTC)And who can complain about yours, really?
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Date: 2003-09-12 11:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-12 11:12 am (UTC)Still, that judge was way out of line, and should be removed, IMHO.
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Date: 2003-09-12 10:33 am (UTC)As for Piers he has always favored child molestation.
In Firefly and in one of the Incarnation series he had female under the age of 15 have sex, both against their will and giving "consent" to have sex. Early abuse made it OK that they had sex with adults was his argument.
In the Incarnations one the guy was a judge, who was supposed to be her guardian, and the Incarnation actually held the girl in stasis for 3 years so that she would still be 15 chronologically, but that the judge could still screw her, since "legally" she was 18.
Those two books convinced me to never buy anything from him ever again.
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Date: 2003-09-12 11:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-12 12:50 pm (UTC)UN
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Date: 2003-09-14 02:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-12 10:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-12 10:50 am (UTC)And the very fact that the article bothered to mention her race at all implies, to me, that it was somehow used as a factor in swaying the judge.
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Date: 2003-09-12 12:24 pm (UTC)That's kinder than the entire list of items that a friend of mine just suggested be shoved up the cretin's rectum.
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Date: 2003-09-12 03:17 pm (UTC)What triggers my suspicion that there's more to the case? Three men were charged but only one convicted. The use of 'an abusive home' on the part of the victim as a mitigating factor seems odd, and would have to be warranted by more than appears in the article. The article makes no statement as to what the assault actually consisted of nor what the sentence is conditional upon.
Might it be that the judge is prejudiced, racist (as one of your commentors seems to indicate), or merely ridiculous? Possibly. But I'd want to have the whole case history before me before I made that judgment. Do you seriously think this article is enough to draw the conclusions people have made above?
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Date: 2003-09-12 03:51 pm (UTC)Honestly? Just about. There is one condition that I can think of that would possibly allow for this -- the judge had reason to believe that the conviction was wrong, and thus applied no penalty (I freely admit my unfamiliarity with Canadian law, so I don't know what recourse exists as far as requesting mistrials, etc). Otherwise, at a minimum, we know that there was some form of sexual assault on a twelve-year-old by an adult. And adults gave alcohol to the same underage person. That's plenty to go on regardless of the other circumstances.
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Date: 2003-09-12 03:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-12 07:19 pm (UTC)And it's even worse if one is aboriginal.
Saskatchewan is known for it's racist attitudes towards aboriginals. The fact that likely three white men got away with raping a 12 year old Cree child is disgusting but hardly surprising.
The fact that these assholes gave her alcohol in the first place should have landed them in jail. The rape should have made them stay in it longer.
I'm ashamed of being Canadian on that front. Totally so. There's a special place in hell for those three men and the judge and if indeed the girl has been molested by her father, well, he should be joining them too.
And this isn't the first time a judge has done this to a minor.
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Date: 2003-09-13 07:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-13 07:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-15 05:35 am (UTC)