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In reply to the discussion: Creepy Judge Reduces Pedophile’s Sentence, Suggests Little Girl Caused Her Own Rape [View all]Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)Yes, the mother testified for the perp, but that's because he is her son. You can get a three year-old to say anything.
The theory that no real harm was done to the girl is hardly NEUTRAL or objective. Her flesh was torn up. Of course the child was both traumatized and injured, and the fact that it was her brother who did it is hardly going lessen the psychological harm.
This girl will be faced with her rapist again before she is 10. She won't even have hit puberty. This appears to be a conspiracy of delusion among the family, but the judge's job is to be an objective person rather than a co-conspirator in lunatic wishful thinking.
This was a violent attack. The girl was probably convulsing in agony. She would have been bleeding when he withdrew (and at that point, the child may have been struggling to breathe). Instead of seeking help, he clamps his hand over the girl's mouth to muffle her cries and forces her to participate as he masturbates to release. Following that, he pulls up her pants and frees her, but it is not until she is wailing about the pain she is in that her mother realizes she's bleeding from the ass. This is not caring.
One strongly suspects that this isn't the first time he had sexually molested the girl. The idea that he was just sitting in the garage playing video games, suddenly became aroused by seeing his sister toddle in, and thought "gee, why not?", got up, closed the door and locked it, and then grabbed his sister and sodomized her is crazy.
Child molesters aren't, strictly speaking, necessarily pedophiles:
http://www.crisisconnectioninc.org/sexualassault/pedophilia_and_molestation.htm
But they do get off on molesting children. Quite a few child molesters are capable of otherwise normal adult sexual relationships. So it may be true that the perp is not a pedophile - but he does get off on children. Nor does that change the probability of re-offense for the better:
Pedophiles are master rationalizers, while child molesters are master liars and manipulators.
Pedophiles may believe that they have not harmed the child (ego-syntonic) and may convince themselves that they truly "love" the child with no acceptance that they have used their power and influence to overpower their victim. Child molesters do not engage in a "relationship" with their victim, their interest is strictly overpowering the victim by means of sexual degradation and control.
Pedophilic behavior/fantasy rarely varies. If the Pedophile prefers 8 year-old boys, he will be "grooming" 6 or 7 year-olds to replace his current 8-year-old victims when they "age-out" of his preference parameters. Child molesters may continue victimizing the same child or children for years; convenience and accessibility are paramount to the molester.
Both Pedophiles and child molesters are primarily heterosexual males. Active pedophilic behavior generally starts slowing down around age 35; the child molester generally continues his victimization until he is no longer physically able due to age, illness, injury, or incarceration.