Post: #1

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/judge-se...xperience/


Another familiar story like the Standford Rape Case with outrage over a judge's sentencing.

Quote:UPDATE: In a statement to MassLive, the University of Dayton said that David Becker will not be attending the school. Becker’s attorney, Thomas Rooke, had no comment.

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A former Massachusetts high school athlete will avoid serving jail time and registering as a sex offender after he was charged with sexually assaulting two unconscious women at a house party.

David Becker, 18, had been charged with two counts of rape and one count of indecent assault and battery in connection with the April 2 incident after a party in Palmer, reported MassLive.

Palmer District Court Judge Thomas Estes on Aug. 15 ordered Becker’s case continued without a finding for two years, and he was sentenced Monday to two years of probation.

During that time, the former East Longmeadow High School student was ordered to avoid drugs and alcohol, submit to an evaluation for sex offender treatment and stay away from the two 18-year-old victims.

Becker, a three-sport athlete at the school, will be permitted to serve probation in Ohio, where he plans to attend college, and will not be required to register as a sex offender.

No conviction will appear on his record if he complies with the terms of his probation.

“He can now look forward to a productive life without being burdened with the stigma of having to register as a sex offender,” said his attorney, Thomas Rooke. “The goal of this sentence was not to impede this individual from graduating high school and to go onto the next step of his life, which is a college experience.”

A classmate told a school resource officer about a rumor circulating that a high school senior had assaulted two senior girls while they were intoxicated.

The victims told the resource officer they had been drinking while a classmate’s father was out of town but stayed to help Becker and the classmate clean up.

Police said the young women went to an upstairs bedroom, where they talked to Becker until they all three fell asleep.

The victims said they awoke to find Becker sexually assaulting them, and he apologized to one of the women by text message the following day.

Becker denied sexual contact with the other victim but said he believed his actions with the first woman had been acceptable because she didn’t stop him.

That woman said she had heard Becker had similarly assaulted other girls in the past — earning him the nickname “David the rapist.”

Becker’s attorney strongly denied both of those claims and accused the alleged victim of “unjust character assassination.”

Police found no evidence of previous sexual assaults, and one of the victims told the court that she did not believe jail time was necessary, and the judge closely followed the sentence recommended by Becker’s attorney.

“We all made mistakes when we were 17, 18, 19 years old, and we shouldn’t be branded for life with a felony offense and branded a sex offender,” Rooke said. “Putting this kid in jail for two years would have destroyed this kid’s life.”

The sentence comes in the wake of two other controversial sentences for students convicted of sexual assault.

Brock Turner, a 20-year-old former star swimmer at Stanford University, was found guilty of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman outside a party in January 2015, and Judge Aaron Persky ignored prosecutors’ recommended six-year prison term and imposed only a six-month sentence with the possibility of three months off for good behavior.

Austin Wilkerson, a 22-year-old former student at the University of Colorado, admitted to sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman who had rejected his advances.

He was sentenced to two years in jail but will be permitted to leave during the day to work or attend school, and he was ordered to spend 20 years to life on probation.

He may have not gotten jailtime, but if he indeed is innocent, his name has been smeared on the internet forever.

To me this sounds like a 3some gone wrong - what do you guys think ?

Post: #2

I think the kid should have gotten some sort of punishment. Here's why.

About 20 years ago, some articles appeared in newspapers about a new trend: Families were extracting sperm from comatose and/or dying men so these men could father children posthumously.

The girlfriends (or parents!!!) of these men would enter their hospital rooms surreptitiously, fondle the men sexually, then have them ejaculate into a jar so they could use the semen to impregnate the wives or girlfriends.

Anyone have a problem with this? I did.

At the time, I remember thinking this was a form of sexual abuse and a violation of the men's civil rights.

Since I thought that for the men, I need to also think it about women who are passed out and fondled. Maybe this kid didn't deserve two years for what he did. And "digital penetration" isn't as heinous a crime as rape per se. But some punishment was required -- just as it should have been for the aforementioned sperm-catchers.

Two more things:

"...He apologized to one of the women by text message the following day."

This doesn't sound like a threesome gone wrong. This sounds like a man who is not only guilty of something but stupid enough to put it in writing. I don't recall ever apologizing after sex. His admission of guilt alone is a problem.*

“We all made mistakes when we were 17, 18, 19 years old, and we shouldn’t be branded for life with a felony offense and branded a sex offender,” Rooke said. “Putting this kid in jail for two years would have destroyed this kid’s life.”

Uh, no. We didn't all make mistakes on the level of touching women when they were asleep or passed out. Did any of you do this? I didn't.

Claiming "we all" did, is no different than the feminists who claim "all men are rapists." This idiot is unwittingly branding all men as predators because of the irresponsibility of one kid.

A 17-year-old teenager knows the difference between right and wrong. Claiming it was just a mistake, la-de-dah, is a slap in the face to all the kids who do the right thing. Does their judgement not count, too?

* Addendum: This should have been the first sentence in my reply. From this article and others the kid seemed guilty -- not someone unjustly accused, like that kid in Arizona or like the guy Emma Sulkowicz claimed was a rapist, evidence notwithstanding.

Post: #3

(08-23-2016 05:38 PM)Days of Broken Arrows Wrote:  Claiming "we all" did, is no different than the feminists who claim "all men are rapists." This idiot is unwittingly branding all men as predators because of the irresponsibility of one kid.

A 17-year-old teenager knows the difference between right and wrong. Claiming it was just a mistake, la-de-dah, is a slap in the face to all the kids who do the right thing. Does their judgement not count, too?

Spot on.

Post: #4

Another false flag story meant to rile up SJWs like that Brock Turner bullshit.

Post: #5

The judge made a poor decision. The kid apologized the next day, implying that he had been responsible. Moreover, he admitted to what he did. Not all rape claims should be automatically believed, but there seems to be good evidence in favor of this one. They must be weighed on the evidence provided. The UVA hoax had little evidence outside of an anonymous girl's word. This case has the accused apologizing, plus tacitly admitting that he was guilty.

Rapists should be punished brutally. Innocent men should walk free.

Gentlemen, did YOU know the difference between right and wrong at 17?

Post: #6

If you are already known around town as "David the Rapist" maybe you should watch yourself around drunk chicks. And vice versa.

If you hang out with Vlad the Impaler you can't get mad when he impales you. The thing is impaling is a crime, so he is guilty.

Aloha!

Post: #7

(08-23-2016 05:55 PM)Kona Wrote:  If you are already known around town as "David the Rapist" maybe you should watch yourself around drunk chicks. And vice versa.

If you hang out with Vlad the Impaler you can't get mad when he impales you. The thing is impaling is a crime, so he is guilty.

Aloha!

Nailed it. To this day, I still don't understand how people can be that stupid. You're a girl and you're going to sit on a bed with a guy nicknamed "David the Rapist"???

Post: #8

^ they were all at a house party that this kid also happened to be attending. The two girls went upstairs and passed out. Thew kid went up there and diddled them while they were unconscious. He then admitted guilt via text the next day essentially confessing to the crime. Kid is a scumbag.

Also, regardless of the ruling, his life is still ruined. He was denied admission to that college in Dayton and I'm sure this has something to do with it. One Google search of this dude's name for the rest of time will turn up this story.

Post: #9

(08-23-2016 06:20 PM)Genghis Khan Wrote:  

(08-23-2016 05:55 PM)Kona Wrote:  If you are already known around town as "David the Rapist" maybe you should watch yourself around drunk chicks. And vice versa.

If you hang out with Vlad the Impaler you can't get mad when he impales you. The thing is impaling is a crime, so he is guilty.

Aloha!

Nailed it. To this day, I still don't understand how people can be that stupid. You're a girl and you're going to sit on a bed with a guy nicknamed "David the Rapist"???

That's another thing that makes this story unbelievably ludicrous, although it's not entirely implausible.

Why on this green Earth would you allow yourself to be alone with "David The Rapist"?

If I know a girl nicknamed "Gretchen The Spermjacker" I will go out of my way to stay the fuck away from her. Gretchen The Spermjacker? Fuck that! You wouldn't even catch me at the same party as Gretchen The Spermjacker. But then again I have this thing called common sense.

Post: #10

Is there something missing from this one? I did some googling, it seems this is a blatant he said she said. I guess it worked in this dudes favor.

Also, everywhere I read says he was ordered to "avoid" drugs and alcohol. Making it sounds like he even gets a pass there.

Sure his name gets a little tarnished, but its better than jail.

Or is the point here that with even no evidence at all he gets two years probation?

Aloha!

Post: #11

He was found guilty, and there was evidence. He sent one of the victims a text the following day apologizing for what he did, leaving a paper trail and admission of the crime committed. Judge ruled a very lightly, essentially no more than a slap on the wrist.

Post: #12

^^^. Could he have sent that text, because the next day, because the girl was telling people he raped her? What was in the text message and time? Also just because the article says so, doesn't mean it happened. Newspapers twist plots anyway they want. But also, you go into bed with a rapist and get raped? Whoses fault is that? If I had a daughter, I'd hope she had smarts to not go into bed with a rapist. Anyways kid must have a great lawyer.

Post: #13

You're 17, you're drunk at a house party and there are two chicks passed out and you end up fingering them in the bedroom - definitely wack, but going to jail for 2 years for that would just not be correct. Doing dumb shit is part of of being young - you shouldn't go to jail for that.

Post: #14

(08-24-2016 03:17 PM)fugly1000 Wrote:  ^^^. Could he have sent that text, because the next day, because the girl was telling people he raped her? What was in the text message and time? Also just because the article says so, doesn't mean it happened. Newspapers twist plots anyway they want. But also, you go into bed with a rapist and get raped? Whoses fault is that? If I had a daughter, I'd hope she had smarts to not go into bed with a rapist. Anyways kid must have a great lawyer.

Need to read the story. I'll quote myself from earlier:

(08-23-2016 07:45 PM)General Stalin Wrote:  ^ they were all at a house party that this kid also happened to be attending. The two girls went upstairs and passed out. Thew kid went up there and diddled them while they were unconscious.

The kid didn't apologize for nothing. I certainly don't think he deserves to spend the rest of his teen years behind bars for fingering a couple girls, but if there is ever a bad PR case for "white privilege" this is certainly it.

Post: #15

I've seen this trend lately in social media with the typical outrage you expect.

I have noticed it mainly from the left leaning friends I have. The same friends who use the "you have to trust the judgment of The FBI, Hillary obviously did nothing wrong" argument. Then they see this article and experience a knee jerk triggering, claim the judge made the wrong call and call for the kids head on a stick.

The reactions are quite entertaining when I point that out to them.