Are we sure the media didn’t say “have sex” and not rape?
This particular article does a great job of using proper language. The media at large probably isn’t.
The conviction helps, even if the sentence is light.
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That would’ve been true if it wasn’t rape.
Fuck off.
This is a gross comment.
That boy is a victim of rape.
You twat. :/
You garbage human being. PEDOPHILE is what you are.
PEDOPHILE cheerleader more so, somehow a more pathetic role.
Roberts, who was facing up to 17 years in prison, sexually assaulted the underage victim at her home in July 2024. They were drinking alcohol at a pool party. Roberts was mayor of DeRidder, Louisiana, at the time, a position she had held since 2018.
Can’t help thinking that if this were a man, the penalty would be higher.
“Her conviction came months after her brother, Brandon Lee Roberts, was sentenced to prison in a separate child sex abuse case” (from another article)
Only if the man isn’t Republican. Usually it’s more leniency the younger the child too. For example if you’re, say hypothetically, the President of the United States it’s completely acceptable to rape 12 year olds or even younger!
Are you sure? Male politicians are infamous for not facing consequence. This woman fucked a minor and got nine months, my country’s president fucked countless minors and an airport took his name after he died
Thought you were talking about the U.S. still until you said “after he died”.
A brief whisper of irrational hope that I somehow missed the most wondrous news.
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Totally. As recently seen male politicians raping children are prosecuted to the full extent of the law in the US.
what rock have you been living under. the worst offender of the rape of children is sitting on his throne as
presidentking of America.I realize sarcasm is often hard to spot in text form, but I am not sure how you managed to miss it this time :3
probably because you were too lazy to even bother with a /s
sarcasm cant be communicated through text. but there is a very easy system that only stupid people can fuck up. /gen
It would be either higher or, as a politician, she wouldn’t ever get prosecuted
If she was a man she would get a position in the white house and a pardon if convicted.
Depends if the man was a member of the Epstein class or not.
If she were a man it probably wouldn’t have gotten past the “high five, knowing smile” phase with the town’s police force and officials.
You really have the whole thing backwards don’t you. There was a whole South Park episode about how impossible it is for society to take the rape of young boys by reasonably attractive women seriously.
In general for rape seriousness it goes:
- Boy raped by man (this is the worst and even powerful men can be undone here)
- Girl raped by man (this is generally acknowledged as a terrible thing as long as the girl comes from a higher or similar status family than the man)
- Boy raped by woman (only taken seriously if the woman is hideous, otherwise it’s everyone cheering the boy for being so lucky to be raped by an attractive woman)
- Girl raped by girl (taken so unseriously most people don’t even consider it when taking about pedophilia)
Again I’m not supporting this revolting hierarchy, but you can’t exactly deny it.
You missed the one about the minor aged boy being responsible for child support if the rapist woman gets pregnant and has the baby.
This is true regardless of the genders involved. Male rapists petition the court for visitation and child support as well.
The word “rape” has lost all meaning in Western society lol. Sure this was wrong (because one of the parties was underage), but it wasn’t “rape” because it was consensual.
That’s the “statutory” part of statutory rape. We as society recognize that power imbalance and grooming are potential scenarios, and can have a less powerful/younger person consenting to something they otherwise would not.
For example, if a cop has someone in handcuffs. We as society recognize that there is an inherent power imbalance, and that the person in handcuffs may be pressured into agreeing to things that they otherwise would not.
Or as another example, if a child is groomed by an adult. We recognize that children are easier to manipulate, and can be groomed to agree to things that they would not have done without being manipulated.
And so society writes criminal laws (statutes) that define these various scenarios, and courts then interpret these statutes and apply them to individual cases as rulings. And if the courts find that a person has violated these laws, the person is guilty of rape by statute. Statutory rape.
For example, maybe a state has a law saying that an adult having sex with a child is considered rape, unless that adult is within 3 years of age with the child. So an 18 year old high school senior won’t get in trouble for banging a 16 year old high school junior. But a 35 year old would be guilty of statutory rape.
A 16 year old cannot consent to sexual acts with sokeone in that Situation - especially given power dynamics and alcohol being involved
Bruh I’ve been 16. At that age, we still voluntarily flirt with adults. I’ll agree that adults have a responsibility to not hook up with minors, but they’re completely aware of what they’re doing.
Backwards? This world absolutely thrives on men raping young girls.
Is the rape of boys by women taken seriously when it comes to light? No. Is it the opposite taken seriously when it comes to light? Well, the media would make it seem so, but the lack of arrests and prosecutions speak otherwise.
More ugly incel pedo men get bad publicity than ugly incel pedo women. That’s it. Otherwise, for every boy raped by a woman who is not taken seriously, there are a thousand girls shamed into silence, or ignored.
Call me when boys are being forced to marry grannies by the million. Try to educate me when just fucking one, just fucking one single young boy is stoned to death by his friends and family because he got raped by a 40 year old woman. Just one, in the history of the human race.
Until then, no, you’ve got the whole thing backwards.
Girls having it worse doesnt Make the rape of boys irrelevant
Never said it did. Someone tried to refute what I said. Which is the idea that men in power who rape girls high five each other and, for the most part, don’t get prosecuted. Which is a weird thing to refute in a world where we just had the US government release massive amounts of evidence showing that this is actually happening everywhere all the time.
I think we can all agree that rape and pedophilia is a heinous crime that isn’t taken nearly as seriously as it should, especially like all crimes when the perpetrator is rich.
But let’s not place one gender as the oppressor and the other as the victim. That’s not what the patriarchy is and that’s not what pedophilia and rape victim statistics say. The patriarchy is the dominant social structure and it is helmed by a small group of men of extreme privilege. Below them is a mix of men and women varying in gender mix and privilege until you get to the bottom which is filled in large part by homeless men because the hierarchy punishes men who don’t accept it particularly harshly. The poorest women generally “need to be protected” because paternalistic protection of women is a core (and sexist) value of the patriarchy.
The point is not to say one gender has it better or worse, there is no doubt that on the whole the patriarchy favours men. The point is that the while the issue of rape a pedophilia is a GENDERED issue, it’s not a men vs women thing. Men aren’t high-fiving rapists for raping girls. I can’t go to a single one of my friends or any stranger and get anything but a call to the police if I said “I raped a 16y old girl”. Women aren’t always the victims, sometimes the victims are boys, sometimes the perpetrators are women. Women aren’t 100% treated worse in every case, it’s a known fact, such as in this prosecution that women are treated more leniently by the courts. The average prosecution for statutory is ~40 months, she got 3.
Rape and pedophilia are horrible problems and we aren’t even close to a society that creates justice for victims, but the attitude you have on the topic just muddles the problem further instead of helping towards a solution. If you can get past your ideology and accept all the facts of the situation you’ll be a much more effective advocate for victims.
And all that 40 month 3 month shit pales in comparison to the sheer number of men who simply never get prosecuted. I never said “ignore the women! Get the men!” I just said that men get off for raping girls far far far more than women do. It’s a cold fact, and nothing in all those paragraphs you put forth, changes that.
We can acknowledge that and move on, but everyone seems to prefer to stick their fingers in their ears and scream instead, because they would prefer to punish women more than they want to punish men. And if you really want to dive into patriarchy, you’d see that mindset, instilled by patriarchy, playing out all over this thread.
Nah man. It’s a woman so she’s getting a higher sentence than a man would, on average.
I hope this is satire.
The average rapist doesn’t see any jail time at all.
Yeah, but on average (corrected for everything else) sentences for men are much harsher.
Not if you include the men who don’t serve any time at all even though they committed the crime.
There’s way more perpetrators that haven’t done any time at all than perpetrators who have served time for rape.
Perpetrators who have been found guilty in a court of law do no time at all? Im not sure ive heard of a modern instance of that. You’d think it would be major news.
I know you’re trying to lead me down the path of crying for men accused of rape, but I don’t care.
Keep defending rapists that thrive in the dark.
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Okay I get the people saying the sentence is criminally light and I agree but it is also nice to see a headline that isnt using a bunch of terms that beat around the bush
Yep, it’s refreshing to see female rapists actually get called out. Especially for statutory rape where the victim possibly expressed wanting to do it, but it’s still rape - these cases often get headlines where the writers intentionally avoid using the term rape or assault, and frame it as if it’s the law that’s at fault.
“Woman sentenced to 2 years of prison for having sex with 16 year old teen” and the paedos immediately get a ground to stay on, claiming it was consensual and the law should be changed. (this I actually seen happen once, with the usual “he’s 16, when I was that age I would’ve killed to have sex with an older woman” sickening BS comment avalanche)
“Woman rapes 16 year old boy” and bam, now it’s hard to find supporters.
Just yet another example of how the media can influence societal behaviour by just slightly wording things differently.
Yes exactly! Also weird comment thread to say it but happy cake day!
“You won’t believe the sentence received for this sexual crime (it’s not what you think)”
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It’s refreshing to see an accurately worded headline in a case like this. Usually they go with “sex with a minor” instead of “rape”, when the perpetrator is a woman.
Having said that, the sentence is way too damn lenient. She preyed on a minor. She should be punished way more than that.
Legacy media goes with “sex with underaged women” when it comes to the Epstein files or Trump.
I’d even argue that beyond just statutory rape, she should’ve been charged with various abuse of position/power (usually with statutory rape it’s a factor in sentencing), since she was the mayor at the time.
Shouldn’t she get more time for simply providing / allowing alcohol? Let alone the rape!
Whoa! A Whole 80 days?
Well, you can’t say a former governor got off easy. Those 70 days will be pure hell.
I mean imagine how she’ll feel serving that long 60-day sentence.
She could get out for good behavior, maybe after half of that 50-day sentence.
Of course, the judge might make her serve that whole month so that she can set an example.
That week will probably make her regret what she did.
That’ll probably be the longest weekend of her life.
It took up her whole Saturday! …afternoon.
I bet the sentence would not be 90 days if the genders were swapped.
It’s true. It would be 0
Sentences for male rapists don’t tend to be very long either.
This web stie says the average sentence for statutory rape is 42 months, so still seems a little low. Now, I understand how statistics and averages work, so I can’t say how this compares to the median, but my guess is, not favorably.
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The numbers are slightly skewed because one of them is currently serving a presidential term.
Yeah! She should get a real sentence, like trump and that gang of male pedos!
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People like you are the reason no one takes male victims of sexual assault seriously. Go fuck yourself
Sad that even Lemmy is filled with these awful stereotypes. Sexism exists, and its only getting more rampant.
And another twat. :/
On the flipside, that’s 90 days more than Epstein’s friends are getting.
Even with the two suspended sentences they’re letting her off the hook quite lightly if you ask me.
Sure, teenage boys are horny all the time, but this is a clear case of a power imbalance and an adult abusing it/them for their own gratification.
Funny how a scenario like this was nearly verbatim part of the “boys get raped too” course that was a mandatory part of my curriculum 26 years ago, and we’re still treating this differently as a society.
I think the age difference is what really sells it. No one seems to care about the power imbalance. Look at Monica Lewinsky. She was an intern to the most powerful man in the country and still to this day people make jokes about her like she was a harlot gold digger and it was consensual so it’s ok.
The rapists own wife even insists that since she consented it wasn’t power imbalance.
She was Jay Leno’s favorite target for a year after the assault and the media constantly painted the victim as the bad guy.
In the end, the kid was underage and legally couldn’t give consent. So rape is rape simply because of the age. In power dynamics though, the victim can end up being the butt of the joke for the rest of their lives. The culture behind supporting rapists and not holding them accountable perpetuates this no matter the sex of the victim. Here’s a perfect example from SNL
Are we treating it differently? Male rapists don’t typically get very long sentences either.
Rape should be punished harsher for all perpetrators. Including this case. It’s enraging.
I still think sentences for rape are too short regardless of the perpetrator’s gender.
These kinds of studies also don’t take into account the amount of perpetrators that are never reported or caught. Which we all know is a pretty large number.
Why would stats on jail time include unconvicted and unaccused? That doesnt make any sense. Also, accused doesn’t mean guilty.
Stats on rape and sexual assault should include instances where the perpetrator doesn’t see any jail time because the rape and sexual assault still happens.
Just because a victim doesn’t report does not mean that the perpetrator is innocent.
Wait, hold on here. Are you asking why they don’t report numbers on unreported crimes? And more so you want numbers on average jail time to include not convicted and even not accused individuals as rapists?
You would love the movie Minority Report.
That’s a lot of words I didn’t say that you just put in my mouth.
My point is that the number of rapists is much higher than the reported stats will have you believe. Rape and sexual assaults don’t get reported nearly as often as other types of crime.
Depends on the amount of money they have. Studies have shown that women tend to get much lighter sentences. And you got to consider how unoften they get reported.
True, wealth and social status affect sentences quite a bit.
And you got to consider how unoften they get reported.
That’s for all sexual assaults and rapes honestly.
Rapists and pedophiles should be getting harsher sentences regardless.
Yup, if you do the gender swap test on this case, it doesn’t pass merit.
You should really see the light sentences rapists often get.
It was treated as a neat little bit of trivia in my sociology class.
90 fucking days! what the actual fuck
Growing up I thought rapists were all creepy ugly dudes. Why would someone with looks, money, and status ever think of rape? In fact, that seems to be more often the case than not.
Because rape is about power.
because people with money and status get bored. When you have everything you could possibly ever want you start looking to have things that are morally, ethically, and legally questionable. “I’m rich, powerful, and white…I’m going to see what I can get away with.” And this 3 month sentence just proves it. Yes we the government WILL allow you to get away with it buuuuut we have to slap you on the rest for optics so the peons don’t revolt, you know how it is, sorry. We’ll try to make the experience as painless as possible though."
So all these rich fuckers start raping kids, killing people, etc and they get a thrill from it. It’s the thrill of doing things that the peons would never be able to do and get away with.
Yep. In fact, calling them paedos isn’t even necessarily correct (a paedophile, by colloquial definition, is attracted to minors, but doesn’t necessarily commit rape - many who recognise this attraction in themselves seek psychiatric help and never offend in their lives) - they’re just child rapists who rape children not because they’re attracted to them but because it is simply the most deplorable crime one can commit, their attraction is to the act itself and suffering no repercussions.
I mean just by numbers it doesn’t work out. It’s estimated that in western countries, the general affliction itself is present in 1 to 3% of the population. Within the “upper echelons”, the uber-wealthy, based on the Epstein files and the Diddy case, the amount of child sex abusers (and those supporting it by keeping it quiet, financing or otherwise supporting the child traffickers, etc.), seem to be anywhere between 10 to 40% - ten+ times higher than in other segments of society…
Now there’s two explanations to this:
- either paedos that successfully hide their behaviour somehow manage to excel in positions that allow one to become super wealthy
- or, within the billionaire circles, being attracted to children isn’t the driving factor for raping them
And I’m actually not sure which option is the worse…
I would say most of the personality traits that let people become rich today are the same exact ones that would make them pedophiles.
Also there is a lot of rich connections they can make from being involved in islands and whatnot.
Because personality and kinks are mostly separate from looks, money and status.
She should been Oklahoma where that sex would have been legal sickening enough. But why not get more time?
that sex would have been legal sickening enough.
That doesn’t make sense, if that where true then every single person be at risk of rape. Also rape is not sex - there has to be consent involved, in this case the male didn’t state the consent and was potentially drunk.
I don’t have enough energy to get witty, but she should at least get one well placed bullet added to that sentence.
Gross. Fuck off back to Reddit, ay?
People who advocate for death penalty belong in therapy, not on lemmy.
I wouldnt say death, maybe the spinal cord?
How about life in prison with therapy to learn empathy? Can’t punish someone more than to teach them to be truly ashamed and sorry for what they did.
yeah yeah all that along with paralysis
