Judge Kurt Eisgruber tells raped wife she needs to forgive husband, zero prison time for husband

[Liberal_in_LA]

Man Found Guilty of Drugging and Raping Wife Gets No Prison Time
by Luke O'Neil | 2:18 pm, May 20th, 2014 2

His wife was “snippy” and drugging her “made her nicer” is how an Indianapolis man convicted of repeatedly drugging and raping his wife explained his actions in court. The offenses, carried out over the course of three years, netted Indiana resident David Wise a grand total of zero years in prison after a trial in which he was found guilty.

Mary Boardman says she confronted her husband about his suspicious behavior, and her mysterious drug-induced sleepiness, before reporting him to the police along with videos he had taken of the rapes, according to the Indy Star. “I was taking advantage of you in your sleep and you kept coming to me and telling me it was NOT ok,” Wise explained to her in an email. “I needed to stop.”

The jury who heard the case against Wise apparently agreed, finding him guilty of six felony counts, including rape and criminal deviate conduct. Each of those might normally come with six to twenty year sentences, Marion County Deputy Prosecutor Courtney Curtis told the Los Angeles Times.

The judge in question, Kurt Eisgruber, apparently didn’t think it was all that serious of an offense, applying a 12 year suspended sentence, and eight years of home detention pls two years probation. As if that weren’t insult enough, Eisgruber told Boardman, who, again, was repeatedly rapd and drugged by her own husband, that she needed to forgive him. He explained to the Times:

“I hope that you can forgive him one day, because he’s obviously struggled with this and struggled to this day, and I hope that she could forgive him. “Ultimately, I think that helps a lot of people heal — it helps them to reach that point,” Eisgruber added. “Some can, some cannot. I’m not in her shoes, I’m not able to say one way or another … It’s not something that’s limited to her or this case. But when people are really struggling, I just offer that out. … I just hope that they find peace.”

http://www.mediaite.com/online/man-found-guilty-of-drugging-and-raping-wife-gets-no-prison-time/

[shenmue]

1. What is this evil shit?

What planet are we on?!

[valerief]

42. It's religion in action. Don't you know, men own their wives?

He's also Republican, but I didn't need to mention that.
http://judgepedia.org/Kurt_Eisgruber

[randys1]

52. Typical republican christian, Pat Robertson would be proud of this judge

the rest of us should take him out back of the court house and beat the shit out of him

[Louisiana1976]

2. That judge ought to be impeached.

It's unfortunate that he can't be imprisoned.

[NYtoBush-Drop Dead]

63. he should be droned.

[Rex]

3. Judge Fuckface says drug date rape is okay as long as it is a married couple.

Rex wonders what fucking planet this is.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

30. wrong, wrong, wrong.

It is judge AssGrabber, not fuckface.

[Rex]

31. Sorry, you are correct.

Judge AssGrabber thinks date rape is okay between married couples...or I wonder if that really only applies to the male variety.

[get the red out]

4. Forgiveness

That's preached over and over to victims, how about justice? Where does that come in.

The demand for forgiveness by victims has gone way over the top. Justice is this judges business, not what he perceives as this woman's soul. Whether she forgives or not is none of his business.

[undeterred]

23. Exactly

Justice is this judges business and he failed to deliver it.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. I have a disconcerting feeling that I have heard of this judge before

In fact I think that he might have once been a PD at Juvenile Court here in Indy

[unblock]

6. "zero prison time" is a maybe, as i understand it.

not defending the judge in the slightest -- i'm baffled by as to how an open-and-shut case of repeated rape and multiple guilty verdicts doesn't manage to result in even a measly 30 days of mandatory prison time, and the whole thing about forgiveness is, well, unforgiveable.

but just to point out, I assume that "12 year suspended sentence" means that if he violates the terms of the 8 years home detention and/or the subsequent 2 years of probation, then the suspension of the 12 years prison sentence could be lifted and he would then have to go to prison.

again, not saying that this is an appropriate sentence, just saying that it will be a decade before we know if he actually avoids all prison time.

[geomon666]

7. Proud Republican judge. Check out his Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/JudgeKurtEisgruber

[WillowTree]

21. Facebook page came down about an hour ago. 'Cause he's so.......y'know.......BRAVE.

Guess he couldn't handle all the well-deserved shit that was raining down on him. Poor baby!

[geomon666]

22. Wow, I wish I had screenshot it then.

Should've known a repuke had less spine than a jellyfish.

[msanthrope]

8. I wonder if the Judge would so forgiving if he were the victim.

[gratuitous]

12. That occurred to me

If someone routinely came into Judge Eisgruber's home, drugged him, and then bent him over the kitchen table (while videotaping the whole episode), I wonder how forgiving his honor would be?

[msanthrope]

14. One wonders how the Judge would feel if his rapist got no jail time. nt

[Egnever]

9. He should have been sent to a mental hospital

Cause that is some crazy shit right there.

[Sylvarose]

10. This judge is up for re-election this year

My fellow Hoosiers..if you are in his district YOU have the power to send him a message he'll get!

https://www.facebook.com/JudgeKurtEisgruber

-SR

[Cleromanticon]

16. Unfortunately, we can't really send him a message

Judge Eisgruber is running unopposed this year. There's no one else to else to vote for in his place.

[Brigid]

17. Aw, man!

[alp227]

24. Welcome to DU. Any way to impeach that crook? nt

[Le Taz Hot]

34. I can relate.

We have 6 people running for Superior Court Judge this year. Every single one of them a right wing nut job. Don't 'cha just love the DNC's 6-state strategy.

And welcome to DU, Clermonticon.

[backscatter712]

37. Aren't judge elections retention elections?

I suppose it depends on the locality.

In other words, is the ballot is of the format "Shall Judge So-And-So be retained in office for another term?"

Obviously, for his Dishonor Eisgruber, the correct answer is no.

[gopiscrap]

49. Tle needs to be disbared!

[aquart]

70. And that is ENTIRELY the fault of the Democrats.

Unopposed elections are the antithesis of democracy. Seems we earned this judge.

[truebrit71]

11. Did the judge sneak over here from Pakistan or Afghanistan?

What in the fucking wide, wide world of sports is going on here??

[Brigid]

15. Too many damn fool Republicans in this state, that's what.

[freshwest]

41. What are we doing? We're ending rape culture by saying it doesn't matter! Works for some...

So glad that this entire issue has finally been resolved!

[liberalhistorian]

66. Well, there are many even on here

who decry the notion of a "rape culture", saying, in coded language, that it's mainly overwrought women and that men are enduring a plethora of false rape accusations that no one is paying any attention to. Curiously, they're quite silent in this thread so far!

[freshwest]

68. I hear you!

[theHandpuppet]

62. I'm surprised he didn't have the wife whipped

Obviously if she had been doing her godly assignment to begin with, her husband wouldn't have had to rape her.

[RainDog]

13. wtf

just

[Squinch]

18. And all this asshole is thinking about is the husband's "struggle." What an imbecile.

I get so tired of this type of men - who are ALL OVER THE PLACE - who think that women are not quite as human as they and their fellow MEN are. He talks about these repeated rapes with the same terminology someone else would talk about substance abuse. Like she's nothing more than a fucking spoonful of cocaine.

[Skidmore]

26. It kind of makes me wonder how these beliefs of his translate into

his own personal life.

[Squinch]

47. .

[GeorgeGist]

19. Asshole ...

[AverageJoe90]

20. I'm sorry, Judge Eisgruber, but you are fucking CLUELESS.

And that's about the nicest thing anyone coulda said here, I think.

[Dorian Gray]

25. Appalling

[Starry Messenger]

27. Gosh, where are all the "courts are biased toward women" posters?

[Le Taz Hot]

35. Not the same thing.

That bias refers to child custody cases.

[Scuba]

28. He should have been molested by a cop at an OWS rally. Then he would have gotten some time.

[riqster]

29. Yes, no mercy for the victims! Justice for the offender!

"Ass-backwards" doesn't begin to describe it.

[LeftyMom]

32. This is why few rape victims report the crime.

Remind me again how rape culture is something feminists made up?

[etherealtruth]

54. No sh*t

[joeybee12]

33. This judge is one sick asshat...nt

[Locrian]

36. wow

I really hate how backward and corrupt these third world judges are.... uh,.... wait.....

[Tsiyu]

38. Eisgruber's number

This man is unfit to be a judge. Let him know how you feel:

317-327-3528

[DesertDiamond]

39. What a bunch of meaningless babble. He just talks on and on without saying anything real at all.

[Romulox]

40. This is where the Federal Government needs to step in and charge this man...

There has GOT to be some Federal charge that could be applied to this case.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

43. bet he's never sermonized on forgiveness to a MALE victim of ANYTHING.

too many men have no empathy for women...we're "just too different" from them.

[Gormy Cuss]

64. ^^^This^^^

I'd love to see evidence that you're wrong on this but I won't be holding my breath waiting for it.

[LittleGirl]

44. OMG, WTF?

So glad we left Indy in Nov 2012 and I hope to never return there.

[ancianita]

45. She'd do better to spend the money on a divorce, not an appeal.No wife should commit to that kind of

'for better or for worse,' nevermind be told to by some arrogant judge. SHE obviously struggled, too, but what's important to the judge is hub's struggle, not hers.

It doesn't say she's divorcing him, but I hope she moves on without him.

[struggle4progress]

55. ... Boardman, who was married to Wise for 12 years until their 2009 divorce, said

she made a DVD copy of the videos and went to police with them in 2011 ...
Indiana woman angry ex-husband who raped her is sentenced to home detention
Published May 21, 2014

[Helen Borg]

46. What I want to know is...

Is she divorcing this guy? If not, something does not add up.

[LeftishBrit]

48. WTF?

[gopiscrap]

50. welcome to DU

[Solly Mack]

51. Wow.

[treestar]

53. WTF?

How can he not do some hard time?

[struggle4progress]

56. ... The assaults, based on the dates on the smartphone videos, happened in 2008. The woman went

to police in 2011 with a copy of the videos. In her testimony in court, the woman said she didn’t come forward sooner because she didn’t want her two children, a son and a daughter, to grow up without a father ...
Home-detention sentence questioned in spousal rape case
3:53 p.m. EDT May 16, 2014

[struggle4progress]

57. ... In January 2010, she told police she had been receiving harassing text messages and calls

from Wise, according to a police report. She also said Wise threatened to kill her then-fiance, according to the report ...
Man who raped wife gets no prison time
Kristine Guerra
11:49 p.m. EDT May 19, 2014

[struggle4progress]

58. ... Boardman has custody of the children ...

Indiana man who raped wife gets home detention
May 20, 2014
Kristine Guerra

... Wise no longer has visitation rights for the couple’s son and daughter ...
'I was told I need to forgive him - I have had zero justice'
By Ap and Daily Mail Reporter
Published: 21:00 EST, 20 May 2014
Updated: 10:28 EST, 21 May 2014

[struggle4progress]

59. The sentence might reflect some of the circumstances:

She learned about rape through cellphone videos in 2008. She got a divorce in 2009. She complained to the police about harassment in 2010. But she didn't report the rapes until 2011; her explanation is that she didn't want their children to grow up without a father

So the judge might have reasoned as follows: she apparently didn't sustain any injuries requiring medical attention at the time; she wasn't outraged enough to complain to police in 2008; she apparently wasn't angry enough to raise the matter in her divorce; she apparently wasn't outraged enough to bring the matter to police police attention at the time of her 2010 harassment complaint; and for years, she apparently wasn't concerned enough to attempt to limit his visitation with the children; so we'll give the guy a suspended sentence plus house arrest, and if he fails to wipe his nose someday, he's facing a long stint in the slammer

[blkmusclmachine]

60. Christian Dominionist judge, yes?

[ColesCountyDem]

61. Indiana is known as the "Mississippi of the Midwest" for a reason.

If you've ever lived there (or close by), you'd understand how well-deserved the tongue-in-cheek motto is.

[Blue_Tires]

65. Affluenza defense?

or the "Lives of anyone who isn't white/male/christian don't have any value in the legal system" -defense?

[chervilant]

67. Wow. Words fail...

(And, still no resident rape apologists or rape culture deniers...)

[cvoogt]

69. X counts and you're out

... out of jail, apparently