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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 10:38 PM Sep 2014

Montana ex-teacher re-sentenced to 10 years for rape of student

Source: Reuters

Montana ex-teacher re-sentenced to 10 years for rape of student

BY LAURA ZUCKERMAN
Fri Sep 26, 2014 8:20pm EDT

(Reuters) - An ex-teacher from Montana whose month in jail for the rape of a 14-year-old student triggered public outrage was re-sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison in a case that a state prosecutor said would bolster rape victims' rights.

Stacey Rambold, a former Billings High School instructor, pleaded guilty last year to one count of sexual intercourse without consent tied to the 2007 rape of Cherice Moralez, a high school freshman who committed suicide in 2010 before the case could be brought to trial.

In a ruling later struck down as unlawfully lenient, a state judge sentenced Rambold to 15 years in prison then suspended all but 31 days and gave him credit for one day served, infuriating women's rights activists.

Outcry over that sentence was compounded by a remark from the judge, G. Todd Baugh, who said that Moralez was "as much in control of the situation" as her then 47-year-old instructor.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/27/us-usa-rape-montana-idUSKCN0HL14F20140927
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Montana ex-teacher re-sentenced to 10 years for rape of student (Original Post) Eugene Sep 2014 OP
Good. TDale313 Sep 2014 #1
They should have the judge serve the missing sentence in their stead. Xipe Totec Sep 2014 #4
While it's good this wrong was eventually corrected mythology Sep 2014 #2
Especially considering that liberalhistorian Sep 2014 #6
Glad this dude is in jail. Calista241 Sep 2014 #3
Good, better, annominous Sep 2014 #5
plus 1000 Liberal_in_LA Sep 2014 #7
Good! TorchTheWitch Sep 2014 #8

Xipe Totec

(43,872 posts)
4. They should have the judge serve the missing sentence in their stead.
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 11:32 PM
Sep 2014

That would make a clearer starker message.

 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
2. While it's good this wrong was eventually corrected
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 10:43 PM
Sep 2014

I find it disgusting that the judge is being allowed to retire and not be thrown off the bench and arrested for some form of dereliction of duty or similar for the illegal sentence.

Unfortunately his contention that the victim was as responsible as the attacker isn't illegal, just heartless, stupid and wrong.

liberalhistorian

(20,809 posts)
6. Especially considering that
Sat Sep 27, 2014, 12:14 AM
Sep 2014

the poor girl completed suicide because of the rape and the fallout dealing with it. If I were her mother, I'd sue that motherfucking judge and take great pleasure in doing so.

Calista241

(5,584 posts)
3. Glad this dude is in jail.
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 10:58 PM
Sep 2014

I don't see how these people go after kids in high school. When i was in college, i couldn't stand high school people. And when i was a senior in college, i could barely tolerate the freshmen. They all went through the same phase of "holy shit, i'm away from my parents. Let's PARTY!" Shit that is super important to a high school person, is just totally insignificant to someone that has to pay bills and shit.

 

annominous

(68 posts)
5. Good, better,
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 11:34 PM
Sep 2014

best would have been if the victim had survived without taking her own life. It seems to me it took the whole country to rise up in outrage, and scoff at the state of MT, to get the original verdict overturned. If it had gone unnoticed, this sentence would never have been handed down.

TorchTheWitch

(11,065 posts)
8. Good!
Sat Sep 27, 2014, 01:03 AM
Sep 2014

I wondered whatever happened with this case since it was said he'd be re-sentenced. I'm just pissed that the skunk judge that let him off with a tap on the wrist is being permitted to retire and stay on the bench. Any judge that does something so outrageous, disgusting and even illegal needs to lose their job or no faith at all with be restored to the justice system. Every rape case that swine ever presided over should be scrutinized. At the very least he should recuse himself from any rape case that may come before him again though that's still not good enough. Letting the judge off with a tap on the wrist is no better than the tap on the wrist he gave that beast that raped that poor girl.


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