There's a scene in the Shawshank Redemption...

[Towlie]

There's a scene in The Shawshank Redemption starting at about 1:30 where Tommy tells Andy and Red about Elmo, an obnoxious former cellmate of his, during which it becomes apparent that Elmo is really the one who murdered Andy's wife.

"One night, like a joke, I say to him, I say, 'Yeah, Elmo, who did you kill?' So he says..."

(Scene shifts to Elmo telling his story.)

"I got me this job one time bussing tables at a country club. So I could case all these big rich pricks that come in. So I pick out this guy, go in one night and do his place. He wakes up. He gives me shit. So I killed him. Him and this tasty bitch he was with. That's the best part."

(Starting here, Elmo ends each sentence with a hauntingly cruel, evil, laugh.)

"She's fucking this prick, see, this golf pro. But she's married to some other guy. Some hotshot banker. And he's the one they pinned it on!"

The reason I'm bringing this up is that it's not hard to imagine a cruel, evil, rapist telling a similar story about how he raped a woman and got her pregnant, but in this case the punchline would be "And the state forced her to have my baby!"

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1. Eventually one of these states will award custody to the rapist

That's one of my favorite movies, btw.

Funny, though I can't really explain why. Can't point to anything in particular about it. It's just a really, really good movie.

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3. Teen Loses Custody of Child to Accused Rapist, Has to Pay Child Support

This is a from People

A watchdog group in Louisiana has asked outside authorities to investigate a recent ruling by a judge that granted an accused rapist full custody of the daughter his accuser — who became pregnant when she was 16 and the father was 30 — birthed nine months later.

Court records obtained by PEOPLE confirm that Judge Jeffrey Cashe also ordered Crysta Abelseth, 32, to make monthly child support payments to John Barnes, the man she alleges raped her in late 2005.

Cashe awarded Barnes, 46, full custody of the girl on March 21, 2022, despite allegations made by a child that Barnes had been sexually, physically and verbally abusive. Those allegations were first brought to the state's Department of Children and Family Services by a school counselor. Barnes has not been charged with a crime in connection with those allegations.

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4. ...

[Towlie]

5. I figured a lot of folks here have seen it, it's #1 on the IMDB Top 250 Movies.

 
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IMDB Top 250 Movies

[TheRealNorth]

2. Hey, Incels have Reproductive Rights too

[Irish_Dem]

6. Rapists now have additional motives.

Women will have a forced pregnancy.
Have to raise his child.

Or he can sue for custody and get child support from the woman he raped.