Victim wants rapist's parental rights restricted

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37. Or a judge who was forced to apply the law as written.

Laws aren't always written to account for every variable.

And often judges don't have as much discretion over one case as we'd like, because then they'd have discretion over cases where we don't want them to have discretion. Take the "affluenza" case--we objected to that judicial discretion. But if we took that away entirely, I'm sure that in the course of a year or two there'd be some other case we'd be outraged over because the judge didn't exercise, or have the ability to exercise, discretion.

Upthread a poster said that most states give rapists parental rights. They probably don't grant such rights to rapists by list, explicitly; but by saying "father" the rapist gets the same rights as any other father by default. Laws aren't always written to account for every variable.

It's an imperfect world. And try as we may, no amount of micromanaging laws and courtrooms will make it perfect. Doesn't mean we don't try; it does mean that when there are outrages we keep them in perspective.