It took up her whole Saturday! ...afternoon.

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.

Depends if the man was a member of the Epstein class or not.

If she was a man she would get a position in the white house and a pardon if convicted.

Only if the man isn't Republican. Usually it's more leniency the younger the child too. For example if you're, say hypothetically, the President of the United States it's completely acceptable to rape 12 year olds or even younger!

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.

"Her conviction came months after her brother, Brandon Lee Roberts, was sentenced to prison in a separate child sex abuse case" (from another article)

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

It would be either higher or, as a politician, she wouldn't ever get prosecuted

Totally. As recently seen male politicians raping children are prosecuted to the full extent of the law in the US.

Yup, if you do the gender swap test on this case, it doesn't pass merit.

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.

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.

“You won’t believe the sentence received for this sexual crime (it’s not what you think)”

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Sentences for male rapists don’t tend to be very long either.

This particular article does a great job of using proper language. The media at large probably isn't.

Because rape is about power.

Because personality and kinks are mostly separate from looks, money and status.

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.

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.