A woman gets sexually assaulted by a police officer and the female judge gives her a lecture.
Department of Public Safety Officer Robb Gary Evans, 43, knocks back eight beers on a summer night in 2011, according to prosecutors, then drives himself to the Green Room, a bar in downtown Flagstaff, where he flashes his badge to get in without having to pay the cover charge.
He proceeds to ooze charm and sophistication throughout the nightclub, pinching one woman on her backside, according to a witness, then groping the victim, the friend of a friend.
She complains and he gets tossed out of the bar, whereupon our hero announces that he’s a cop and the bouncers would be arrested.
Groping her by putting his hand under her skirt and touching her genitals. And then… “A trial is held in July, and a jury finds the groper guilty of sexual abuse, a Class 5 felony, punishable by up to 21/2 years in prison.” Did he get prison time? No. Does he have to register as a sex offender? No. Mr. Class 5 felony received probation. The victim received a lecture by the judge:
“If you wouldn’t have been there that night, none of this would have happened to you,” Coconino County Superior Court Judge Jacqueline Hatch told the victim this week.
Yeah, it would have happened to another woman who dared to leave her house. If women don’t want to be sexually assaulted then they need to stay home and stop tempting men. And if they do leave their homes and an incident like this happens they need to stop whining.
After blaming the victim, the judge went on to explain that she wasn’t blaming the victim but that women must be vigilant against becoming victims.
“When you blame others,” she said, “you give up your power to change.”
Hey ladies, if you go out and some guy feels you up then don’t blame him for his actions because, if you do, then you’ve lost power. I see burqas in our future.