File this one under appalling things we've seen before: A judge is nice to a teen accused of rape because he came from a 'good family'
a judge overseeing the case of a 16-year-old boy, accused of raping another teenager and circulating a video of the assault to his friends, decided to be very nice to the alleged rapist, because he came from a “good family” and was doing “extremely well” in school.”, both teens, named as G.M.C. and Mary in the documents, attended a basement party where both consumed alcohol and appeared visibly drunk.
After Mary’s family pressed charges, Monmouth County prosecutors in September 2017 petitioned the family court judge overseeing the case to try the 16-year-old as an adult due to the “sophisticated and predatory” nature of G.M.C.’s actions. Per the“At the time he led Mary into the basement gym, she was visibly intoxicated and unable to walk without stumbling,” the prosecutor wrote. “For the duration of the assault, the lights in the gym remained off and the door was barred by a foosball table.
“This was neither a childish misinterpretation of the situation, nor was it a misunderstanding,” the prosecutor wrote. “G.M.C.’s behavior was calculated and cruel.”But Judge James Troiano refused that petition in July of last year, and in making the case for his decision, he used some all-too-familiar arguments, including that there was a distinction between “sexual assault and a rape,” and that a “traditional case of rape” was a stranger attacking someone at gunpoint.
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