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From: bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan)
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Subject: Re: A clear case of rape?
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Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 12:09:12 EDT
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In article <415@cci632.UUCP> rb@ccird1.UUCP (Rex Ballard) writes:
>>>If you were on a jury, and rape had a mandatory penalty of (pick one): 
>>>	twenty years in prison,
>>>	five years in solitary,
>>>	parole with Ray Frank as parole officer,
>>>would you still deliver a "guilty" verdict?
>[>]*[...]
>Actually $500 and a week or two in a state jail might be most appropriate.
>Rape is quite common in jails, and it wouldn't be hard to have the guards
>arrange a most "educational" 7 days :-).  This is what consistantly happens
>to men who sexually assault children.

Not quite. It happens to those who are *imprisoned* for said assaults, 
whther or not the assaults actually occurred. I have an acquaintance who
was caught up in the currently faddish witch-hunt of child abuse, and is
now serving 5 years in the state pen for a crime which was never committed.
He was imprisoned because he maintains his innocence (or stance of "not
guilty", there is no such thing as "innocence" once you've been falsely
accused of child abuse; the State educates you thoroughly!).

Odd, perhaps, but I know of another man who was also accused, and plead
guilty. 20 months suspended sentence is all he got. 

Is this fair? To either man?

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