No jail time for rapist of 13-year-old boy

[beschizza]

Originally published at: No jail time for rapist of 13-year-old boy | Boing Boing

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[TornPaperNapkin]

Vile.

[knoxblox]

[anon61221983]

[fuzzyfungus]

I just can’t believe that the recent upsurge in outsized concern over pedophiles and ‘groomers’ only applies to the imaginary ones.

[Beauty]

There is so much that is hard discuss about this because of the innate gender and power bias that makes this news worthy.

[CoffeeStar]

If an adult woman had told my 13 year old self not to worry about condoms I would have totally believed her. This is such an insane abuse of the power that comes with age and experience.

(To clarify, I am not saying that unprotected sex is the essence of the crime here, but it just puts it in such a stark perspective.)

[futnuh]

There’s no way she gets to raise the child or have any involvement in its life, right?

[Purplecat]

As I said in my other comment, its doubly vile because the media reports are going out of their way to avoid calling this crime what it is.

Fuck Today, Continued

A double dose in this story. Once because of the crime, and another because of the way the news outlet bends over backwards to avoid saying that this was rape.

[TornPaperNapkin]

I think it’s a good example… psychological and emotional abuse is the way most kids get raped and in that… skillset… a 30 year old woman is horrifically overpowered compared to a 13 year old child.

[tcg550]

The victim’s family is also looking ahead to the next steps in this case. They plan on asking the courts to give the 13-year-old custody of the baby. Currently, Serrano (the rapist) has custody of the baby.

[jimr1603]

Depends on local specific text. I think in Eng + Wales it’s almost never rape when a woman does it. The difference is academic becuase there’s a serious sexual assault charge that catches everything that isn’t “phallic object goes in mouth, vagina or anus”, with the same sentancing.

It’s recently been a little highlighted in UK media because there was some political football over what prison a transwoman rapist should go to.

The linked story is light on details for what she pleaded down to. maybe there’s some progress in that n years ago she wouldn’t have had to plead down to anything.