Like Judge Marcia Silva in Middlesex County, New Jersey, who said that the forcible rape of a 12-year-old girl by a 16-year-old boy — it left her bleeding — was “not an especially heinous or cruel offense.”
Like Judge Matthew Murphy of Niagara County, New York, giving probation to a defendant who, as a 17-year-old, raped multiple 15- and 16-year-old girls, because sending him to prison was not “appropriate.”
Like Judge Aaron Persky of Santa Clara County, California, sentencing convicted rapist Brock Turner to six months because anything harsher “would have a severe impact on him.”
Like Judge James Troiano of Monmouth County, New Jersey, declining to try an accused teenage rapist as an adult because he “comes from a good family.”