Prominent advocate for child abuse survivors said sentence for former New York officer Shawn Jordan is ‘dangerous’

It “is the epitome of injustice” as well as “dangerous” for a judge to have given a sentence of 10 weekends in jail to a former upstate New York police officer who pleaded guilty to raping a 13-year-old girl before his forced resignation, according to a prominent advocate for child sexual abuse survivors.

“This sentence is the epitome of injustice and a dangerous nod to child sexual predators letting them know, ‘No worries, we won’t go too hard on you,’” Kathryn Robb, the national director of the Children’s Justice Campaign at the Enough Abuse organization, said on Thursday. “This little girl will be imprisoned by her memories for life, while [the rapist] loses a mere 20 days of his liberty.”

Robb, an attorney, has helped state legislatures across the US reform laws addressing child sexual abuse. She added that “rape of a child is one of the most horrendous crimes with lifelong effects on the victim”. And she maintained that the case centering on ex-Rochester, New York, police officer Shawn Jordan was unconscionable for anyone who believed in the ongoing need for stiffer criminal punishments and more substantial civil damages in instances of child molestation.

  • lolcatnipEnglish
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    26 days ago

    Conservatives don’t even conceptualize rape as involving consent. Consider this mini-rant by Rush Limbaugh:

    You know what the magic word, the only thing that matters in American sexual mores today is? One thing. You can do anything — the left will promote and understand and tolerate anything — as long as there is one element. Do you know what it is? Consent. If there is consent on both or all three or all four, however many are involved in the sex act, it’s perfectly fine. Whatever it is. But if the left ever senses and smells that there’s no consent in part of the equation, then here come the rape police. But consent is the magic key to the left.

    Frankly I didn’t know what they think rape actually is, but I’m this case I bet money they think the cop just owes the girl’s dad an apology for borrowing his property without permission, or for not marrying her, or something else equally disgusting.

    • barsquid@lemmy.world
      11·
      26 days ago

      That mini-rant is insane. It is completely insane that he would present that as something he disagrees with. And Repubs still respected him until the end, because they also disagree with it.