Her husband was not convicted of drugging and raping her - because it is still legal in Minnesota [View all]
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
One woman's trauma is pushing state lawmakers to repeal what is known as the marital rape exception.
By Stephen Montemayor Star Tribune
February 22, 2019 — 9:57pm
RENÉE JONES SCHNEIDER – Star Tribune
Jenny Teeson, with her parents Jerry and Terry Teeson, reacted to the unanimous House vote on the bill to outlaw marital rape.
Jenny Teeson learned that she had been drugged and raped more than a year after the assault took place, when she found videos of it on her computer.
She watched in horror as a man forcibly penetrated her motionless body with a sex toy while her toddler son lay sleeping nearby — all documented in a video shot inside their Andover home.
But Teeson’s attacker will never be charged with rape because, until recently, that man was her husband.
“I know why victims give up,” Teeson said in a recent interview. “Nothing on his record says criminal sexual conduct, that he raped me. Nothing says anything to the sex crimes that he did.”
Minnesota is one of about a dozen states that still grant spouses and cohabiting partners exemptions from its sexual assault laws under certain conditions. The state’s “voluntary relationship” statute, which dates to the 1970s, does not exempt spouses from prosecution for forcible rape. But while it is otherwise illegal in Minnesota to engage in sexual penetration with someone who is “mentally impaired, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless,” that provision does not apply in marriage.......
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Have to admit, I did not know these cruel laws were still on the books #metoo
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