Pedophile escapes jail after judge says victim 'welcomed sex'

[Chris_]

Paedophile escapes jail for abusing girl, 11, after judge says 'she welcomed sex'

Judge Robert Atherton triggered outrage when he told Manchester Crown Court the child had invited Jon Dixon's attack as she had a "sexual awareness" that would make someone twice her age blush.

Claiming the paedophile would not get the treatment he needed in the overcrowded prison service, Judge Atherton sentenced Dixon to a community order.

Dixon and his victim exchanged 900 text graphic messages over a two-week period before the girl told Dixon she was actually aged 12 - although her real age was 11.

On March 15 last year Dixon met the girl during her school lunch break and sexually assaulted her. Two days later they met again when Dixon tried unsuccessfully to rape her in an alleyway.

Dixon was also placed on the Sexual-Offenders Register for five years. Last year Judge Julian Hall was criticised for jailing a child rapist for only two years, claiming the case was "exceptional" because the ten-year-old victim was dressed provocatively. The Appeal Court later doubled the sentence.

[Chris_]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg thinks the age of sexual consent in this country should be lowered to 12. 

These are the kinds of judges you get when you vote for Democrats and Liberals.

[Willow]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg thinks the age of sexual consent in this country should be lowered to 12. 

These are the kinds of judges you get when you vote for Democrats and Liberals.

she's an asshole, no other conclusion!

[Hawkgirl]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg thinks the age of sexual consent in this country should be lowered to 12. 

Do you have legitimate proof of this?  I just see second hand info, but nothing solid.

[Chris_]

When she was a law professor at Columbia, she, Brenda Feigen-Fasteau, former director of the ACLU's Women's Rights Project, and 15 law students put together a report for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The report, released in 1977, gave as one of its "Recommendations" (p. 102):

18 U.S.C. §2032 — Eliminate the phrase "carnal knowledge of any female, not his wife who has not attained the age of sixteen years" and substitute a Federal, sex-neutral definition of the offense patterned after S. 1400 §1633: A person is guilty of an offense if he engages in a sexual act with another person, not his spouse, and (1) compels the other person to participate: (A) by force or (B) by threatening or placing the other person in fear that any person will imminently be subjected to death, serious bodily injury, or kidnapping; (2) has substantially impaired the other person's power to appraise or control the conduct by administering or employing a drug or intoxicant without the knowledge or against the will of such other person, or by other means; or (3) the other person is, in fact, less than 12 years old.

The report also said (p. 97) that "Prostitution, as a consensual act between adults, is arguably within the zone of privacy protected by recent constitutional decisions" (citing the right-of-privacy cases), and urged that various federal prostitution statutes be "[r]epeal[ed]." This isn't precisely the same as saying that "there's a constitutional right to prostitution," because of the qualifier "arguably," but it's not that far off; the report wasn't merely impartially noting that this is one possible position, but seemingly endorsing it as the sounder position.

http://www.volokh.com/archives/archive_2005_09_18-2005_09_24.shtm

I'm sure the report is widely available.  It's been cited many times.

[Chris_]

Reduce the age of "consent" to birth, then support the right to yell "rape" if a man opens a door for a womyn.

Consistency is NOT part of the libtard repertoire.

[DumbAss Tanker]

That guy's gotta go.  There is no way in Hell the sentencing should have gotten past the "She said she was twelve" part of that crap before a non-senile judge would be throwing the book at that pig.