“They allowed coeds and female people to swim in their underwear in the swimming pool…”
I am still having a little trouble believing the above quote. Surely, no man in America can think this way, not in this day and age. Certainly not a circuit judge, someone responsible for ensuring that rapists pay for their crimes. Yet, that’s exactly who said it, and I’m going to give you the context. It will make you sick.
Judge Robert Adrian out of Adams County, Illinois has been reassigned from the 8th Circuit Court Criminal Division, and he is now presiding over civil matters, small claims, and other non-criminal law. He vacated the guilty verdict of an 18-year-old man, who raped an unconscious 16-year-old girl at a party, and he was holding a pillow over the girl’s face as he did so.
The reason the sentence was tossed out? Because Judge Robert Adrian stated the 150 days in jail the rapist served was plenty. His exact statement was, “For what happened in this case, that is plenty of punishment. That would be a just sentence”.
The rapist who sexually assaulted a minor child, who committed the assault while attempting to smother the girl with a pillow, should be just about wrapped up with the punishment he deserves serving less than 6 months in jail. That’s rape, assault, and the abuse of a minor, but under 150 days is adequate.
Despicable.
After the jury returned a guilty verdict and was ready to ensure our victim received justice, they were told they had no opinion on the matter because this judge thinks because the victim swam in her panties and bra in the swimming pool at a party, the victim doesn’t deserve justice. She got what she had coming.
His exact words were, “This is what happens when we have people, adults, having parties for teenagers, and they allow coeds and female people to swim in their underwear in the swimming pool”.
That’s correct. He blamed the fact that the young lady went to a pool party and swam in her panties and bra, thus earning the rape. Well, no wonder the rapist was set free. I mean, why didn’t I think of that reason? Obviously, the young lady was a danger to herself and others, just doggie paddling across the pool, minding her own damned business.
Now there is a rapist who no longer has to register as a rapist. Who got off legally after a jury found him guilty of the assault of a teenager. After having sworn to uphold the law, the judge is making his own provisions to the law, and overruling juries to concoct whatever hateful revenge on teenage girls he can manage to get away with.
Western Illinois, I’ve not had the pleasure, but is this the general mindset where you are? Is everyone aware that you can serve less than 6 months in jail for at least three Class A Felonies so long as your teenage victim was spotted in her bra and panties?
This is a problem, and it isn’t the law. The law was on the girl’s side. It is the men that we allow to sit and preside over us, judging us, and sentencing us, who are still in the mindset of white men in the 50’s. Women are to blame, we dressed too provocatively, we didn’t sit down and shut up when we should have, we refused to be beaten so we got up and left. How dare we?
They’re clutching at straws to hold us in the captive position. They can feel their authority slipping away, and they’re going to make those last grabs to try to keep it. It’s why they’re back to trying to steal our right to safe abortions, settled for over 40 years, but suddenly every old white man in America wants to be in my panties to judge who else has been there.
The fact remains, when we allow these men absolute power for unlimited terms, lifetime appointments, and they feel untouchable, this is the result. A man who just overruled a jury and set a violent predator out onto the streets to rape and smother another teenager. Unconscious teenager, mind you.
We’re not the same country we were in the 1950s when these men were coming into power, getting their country club memberships, and forming their opinions of women. We don’t have to swim in a maxi dress, we can go nude if we decide we’d like to because we’re not sexually repressed assholes who consider a young girl in her underwear rapeable. That thought doesn’t cross our minds. Only these old-school predators and closet misogynists understand that school of thought.
I can’t.
I’m a champion for women.
I urge you to express your displeasure at the decision to leave this dick judging anything other than pie contests. Please email Sharon Main, Court Administrator: [email protected] , and let it be known that this isn’t okay. It’s literally criminal.
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This post was previously published on An Injustice!
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It would be nice to complain to that court administrator, however, we are given no pertinent details. There are zero names attached to this article. How am I supposed to complain without sounding like an uninformed idiot? Please include identifying information. A case number, names etc so that our letters will make us look like we followed the case rather than making us look stupid.
If you will see the original article on Medium, the names are in the article. Thanks.
Expect less from that state?
You are talking a court system that gains, maintains, and profits from it’s judgements without holding any governmental entity accountable.
Just have to go through the various civil and child support cases to directly see this.
Sexism and disregard for law are the norm for these courts, just as extortion and profiteering are normal business days for them.