This particular issue made my media-probably-not-reporting-right radar go off. When a news story makes it sounds like a judge said something that just makes no sense, there is a pretty good chance that they didn’t quite get it right or there is more nuance than is being let on.
On the other hand, when a news story makes it sound like a judge said that using your position as a cop to coerce sexual favours out of a woman shouldn’t be punished because the punishment would hurt the cop, there is a pretty good chance the judge was a crazy sexist asshole.
Of course, both could be true.
