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Wacko ruling from the Italian Supreme Court
Sexual abuse of a teenage girl isn’t as bad if the girl wasn’t a virgin at the time of the abuse, according to the Italian Supreme Court:
ROME, Italy (Reuters) — Sexually abusing a teenager is less serious a crime if the girl is not a virgin, Italy’s higher court said on Friday in a controversial ruling that immediately drew a barrage of criticism.
The court ruled in favor of a man in his forties, identified only as Marco T., who forced his 14-year old stepdaughter to have oral sex with him after she refused intercourse.
The man, who has been sentenced to three years and four months in jail, lodged an appeal arguing that the fact that his stepdaughter had had sex with men before should have been taken into consideration during his trial as a mitigating factor.
The supreme court agreed, saying that because of her previous sexual experiences, the victim’s “personality, from a sexual point of view, is much more developed than what would be normally expected of a girl of her age”.
“It is therefore fair to argue that (the damage for the victim) would be lower” if the abused girl was not a virgin, Italian news agencies quoted the court as saying.
This means the man could now be handed a lighter sentence.
This isn’t the first time they’ve made a controversial ruling, either:
In recent years it has ruled that “an isolated and impulsive” pat on a woman’s buttocks at work did not constitute sexual harassment, and returned a verdict that a woman could not have been raped because she was wearing skin-tight jeans.
I guess some places in Europe aren’t quite as ‘progressive’ as our pals on the left like to make them out to be.
Captain Ed nails it:
So now the Italian justice system wants to set up a degree of varying damage to women who are sexually abused based on their own sexual experience. It seems to me that a 40-month sentence already seems rather light for a stepparent who abused a young girl under his care. Now the court wants to set an even shorter span depending on whether the victim has engaged in consensual sexual activity. Why? Does the Italian justice system believe that good girls don’t deserve to get raped, but somehow bad girls ask for it?
Their court has embarrassed Italy, and for good reason. Their notion of sexual predation belongs to the nineteenth century, not the twenty-first, and Italian women should consider themselves under siege by their own justice system. The Italians have unwittingly taken a step closer to the Islamist position that women corrupt men and push the burden for sexual crimes onto the female victims instead of the male perpetrators. Can the burqas be far behind?
(Hat tip to ST reader stackja)
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This shows the influence of the Pope, on the body politic. The Catholic Church has for 2000 years diminished the standing of any women who engages in pre-marital sex. The greatest example of this was the subservient position that Mary Magdalen was placed in by the male dominated early church. They referred to her as a prostitute until the 60’s. Don’t blame the Left, we are waiting for the first women president, just not Clinton or Rice. Peace
This is the conservative cult of virginity and abstinence taken to new heights.
Such compassion from you two people. Good Lord, how long has the right in this country decried this same assnine behavior from our own judges, but who do you blame, the Christian right. Good move guys. This is the same thing as what went on in New Hampshire with the judge suspending a rather pathetic sentence against a man who abused a 11 year old girl. The people of that state should impeach that judge and remove him from his office.
I just don’t understand what you guys are thinking. What is this need to blame?? It is time to put away the blame game, and try instead to deal with the ignorance and stupidity. As long as you all are blaming the right for all the worlds ills, these idiots will continue to do the stupid things because they think they can get away with it. You need to deal with your hate for the good of all concerned. – Lorica
And don’t forget Bush – you know this is all his fault. Heck, I don’t know why I even bring it up, it’s so self evident.
And, uh, Halliburton, too.
Andrew and steve, do you guys share the bong water?
Steve and Andrew,
Was this the “influence” of the “conservative cult” also:
I’m not sure why you would even try to speak to what conservatives are about since you are far from knowing us. We tell you you are WRONG every day and we try to set the record straight about what we believe. And who knows better about what we believe than ourselves !!
Steve wrote, “Don’t blame the Left, we are waiting for the first women president, just not Clinton or Rice
Hoping for a Margaret Thatcher type?
Same here.
Bah. Bush can’t be blamed for this. Cheney is the one. He’s secretly in charge of Italy. True story.
Cheney is the one. He’s secretly in charge of Italy.
Actually, Blogagog, the whole world is ruled by the secret Zionist trio of Halliburton, Wal-Mart, and Elmo from Sesame Street (Mr. “Big” himself!). Cheney is just the pretty face they present to the world.
At least, that’s what they told me at the National Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy convention.
Or was it Piglet instead of Elmo? Not sure on who “Mr. Big” really is, ya’ know…..
“Was this the “influence” of the “conservative cult” also:”
I wonder if its the right or left that fights for sexual harassment laws?
It’s Piglet as Islamists hate him, so it must be him.
See Andrew there you go again, it’s a right or left thing with you. You can’t get past it. It’s the rights fault that Billy Bob was sexually harrassing Monica. That’s what Hillary said, so it must be true. It doesn’t work Andrew, it makes you sound full of hate. This discussion needs to be thought out and looked at much harder than blame the right, blame the left. It has to start somewhere Andrew, why not you. The right is not going away anytime soon. And based on the last election, we are just getting stronger. Not to say the right doesn’t need to do some house cleaning, it does, but we are here, in the political spectrum, learn to deal with us, cause you are not making any points by throwing out accusations. – Lorica
“See Andrew there you go again, it’s a right or left thing with you. You can’t get past it.
My point was that if it was a right thing, then blame the conservatives. If not, then don’t.
Two dimensional mindsets have very little chance for understanding any issue with the full knowledge required to make a sound decision. It’s a bit like climbing a tall tree. You can’t go straight up because the branches. They are in your path and prevent a direct ascent, so you are obliged to spiral up or alter the tree (reality). If you attempt to scale on either of the extreme position, right or left if you will (trees are round and posses no L/R), the branches will not support your weight. The squirrels have even figured this out. Their is a natural way to be on the outside of the tree but it’s ruled by the law of gravity and a one way trip.
forest, is there some cosmic message in all of that? The Islamo-fascists seem to believe more like Christian and Jewish Conservatives then they do Liberals. Are the tribes of the Sons of Abraham plotting against the Left? Peace
Refer to the opening sentence-steve.
/Sigh I go back to my original mind set. It is easier to nail jello to the wall, than to get a liberal to use common sense in their thinking. GOod Luck Andrew, If the blame game works for you, it isn’t going to work for long. – Lorica