Salon.com > Festivus http://www.salon.com Sun, 26 May 2013 01:38:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 A judge shares Akin’s belief that women’s bodies “shut down” rape http://www.salon.com/2012/12/14/a_judge_shares_akins_belief_that_womens_bodies_shut_down_rape/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/14/a_judge_shares_akins_belief_that_womens_bodies_shut_down_rape/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:42:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13124994 Oh, hello again, rape culture. Why, it's been like, HOURS since the last time we saw you. How've you been? Still putting up the good fight, so to speak, I see.

Hey, speaking of putting up a fight, how about that Superior Court Judge Derek G. Johnson? What a card! Back in 2008, the Orange County judge was handing down a sentence on Metin Gurel, who'd been convicted of "rape, forcible oral copulation, domestic battery, stalking and making threats against his former live-in girlfriend." Prosecutors, who'd asked for a 16-year term for the man, noted that on the day of the assault, he'd also threatened to mutilate the victim's genitals with a heated screwdriver. And what did Derek G. Johnson think of what Gurel had done? Not a whole heck of a lot.

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