Prominent advocate for child abuse survivors said sentence for former New York officer Shawn Jordan is ‘dangerous’

It “is the epitome of injustice” as well as “dangerous” for a judge to have given a sentence of 10 weekends in jail to a former upstate New York police officer who pleaded guilty to raping a 13-year-old girl before his forced resignation, according to a prominent advocate for child sexual abuse survivors.

“This sentence is the epitome of injustice and a dangerous nod to child sexual predators letting them know, ‘No worries, we won’t go too hard on you,’” Kathryn Robb, the national director of the Children’s Justice Campaign at the Enough Abuse organization, said on Thursday. “This little girl will be imprisoned by her memories for life, while [the rapist] loses a mere 20 days of his liberty.”

Robb, an attorney, has helped state legislatures across the US reform laws addressing child sexual abuse. She added that “rape of a child is one of the most horrendous crimes with lifelong effects on the victim”. And she maintained that the case centering on ex-Rochester, New York, police officer Shawn Jordan was unconscionable for anyone who believed in the ongoing need for stiffer criminal punishments and more substantial civil damages in instances of child molestation.

  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
    118·
    3 months ago

    Watch closely as the right wing, which is typically obsessed with child sex abuse, ignores this and continues backing universal immunity for all cops.

    • kamenoko
      30·
      3 months ago

      Rape is tolerated in cases of religion and family. Two cornerstones of conservative values. Conservatives need to stop letting weirdos safeguard their children.

      • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
        18·
        3 months ago

        Rape is tolerated in cases of religion and family

        Which are also leading culprits of sex abuse. Like 95% of child sex abuse victims were molested by a family member or clergy.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        3 months ago

        Conservatives argued that 13 is old enough to be married and be on your second child with your 45 year old husband.

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
      28·
      3 months ago

      Conservatives don’t even conceptualize rape as involving consent. Consider this mini-rant by Rush Limbaugh:

      You know what the magic word, the only thing that matters in American sexual mores today is? One thing. You can do anything — the left will promote and understand and tolerate anything — as long as there is one element. Do you know what it is? Consent. If there is consent on both or all three or all four, however many are involved in the sex act, it’s perfectly fine. Whatever it is. But if the left ever senses and smells that there’s no consent in part of the equation, then here come the rape police. But consent is the magic key to the left.

      Frankly I didn’t know what they think rape actually is, but I’m this case I bet money they think the cop just owes the girl’s dad an apology for borrowing his property without permission, or for not marrying her, or something else equally disgusting.

      • barsquid@lemmy.world
        11·
        3 months ago

        That mini-rant is insane. It is completely insane that he would present that as something he disagrees with. And Repubs still respected him until the end, because they also disagree with it.