The boy had to be treated for a shoulder injury after all the high-fives his classmates were giving him.
It should’ve been me!
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.
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”.
Totally. As recently seen male politicians raping children are prosecuted to the full extent of the law in the US.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nah man. It’s a woman so she’s getting a higher sentence than a man would, on average.
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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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Shouldn’t she get more time for simply providing / allowing alcohol? Let alone the rape!
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.
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.
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.
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!
90 fucking days! what the actual fuck
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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…
Because personality and kinks are mostly separate from looks, money and status.
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.
She should been Oklahoma where that sex would have been legal sickening enough. But why not get more time?
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