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\"You can't be raped if you're already a whore\"

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JPNor

.....is essentially what a Philadelphia judge told a rape victim, who just happened to be a prostitute.


"The sex worker, a 20-year-old single mother, negotiated sex with the defendant over the phone. When she arrived, she agreed to have sex with his friend for an additional charge.


Instead, the friend arrived and pulled a gun. Two other men also arrived, and the four forced her to have sex at gunpoint.


But Deni dropped the rape charges stemming from the Sept. 20 incident because she believed that the prostitute had "consented and she didn't get paid."


"I thought it was a robbery," she told me.


Deni also told me the case "minimizes true rape cases and demeans women who are really raped" - which seemed to confirm DeSipio's claim that her ruling was based on moral contempt rather than the law."


There is not a ton of information online about this story but the article mentions a grassroots movement to have this judge fired, and rightfully so. Anyway I'll stay off the soapbox for this issue - I think it kind of speaks for itself.


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Comments (4)

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kewljoe·
tricky case, it could be that the judge is a right wing conservative, they should have her examined by a shrink to see if she exhibits rape traumas cuz she very well could have agreed to all the kinky shit and then just not paid her.....she shoulda had a bodyguard/pimp
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JeepChick·
If prostitution was legal, do you think this sort of thing could be considered a robbery?
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TDrag27·
If you really think about it and take the money out of it, rape is a really personal type of robbery in it of itself. Even if she's a prostitute...
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JPNor·
@Jeepchick, good question, but I would think (or at least hope) that if something like this was pulled at the Bunny Ranch in Nevada, that it would be treated as more than an armed robbery.\r Then again that's one of the pitfalls of legalizing prostitution.... you open a much wider window for women to be victimized.