assholeofday:Judge Kurt Eisgruber, Asshole of the Day for May 23, 2014by TeaPartyCat (Follow @TeaPar
assholeofday:Judge Kurt Eisgruber, Asshole of the Day for May 23, 2014by TeaPartyCat (Follow @TeaPartyCat)What’s the acceptable punishment for drugging someone and raping them while they’re unconscious? What if they did it more than once? Well, in this case in Indiana, it’s even worse than that:her husband, David Wise, had been drugging her for at least three years and raping her in her sleep — and that she had found video clips on his phone.For years, she said, she had been feeling sleepy for no reason and had found eye droppers around their bedroom. Sometimes, she said, she would see a strange powder in her drinks, or would wake up with a pill partially dissolved in her mouth, and see her husband slipping away with a flashlight in the dark.After she confronted her husband, he emailed her, according to police records. “I was taking advantage of you in your sleep and you kept coming to me and telling me it was NOT ok,” Wise wrote in an email to Boardman before she went to the police. “I needed to stop.”So back to my question, what should his sentence be?Lots of people might come up with different answers, ranging from long prison sentences or to extra-legal measures including torture and death (rape is not a capital crime in most places). But I’ll bet no one said the rapist should go free and the victim should just let it go and forgive their rapist.And yet a judge did exactly that. Judge Kurt Eisgruber sentenced this man to 20 years but not in prison— 12 years suspended and 8 years in home confinement. And then, to top it all off, the judge told the victim:“While the judge was giving his opinion on the sentence, he first turned to me and told me I needed to forgive my attacker, which is unfathomable,” Boardman told The Times. “He told me I needed to forgive my attacker and I needed to let my attacker walk. It was a punch to the gut from the justice system — or from one judge.”Look, it’s one thing for a counselor or clergyman to tell a victim they should move on and let it go, if that’s what’s best for the victim spiritually or mentally. But a judge? Please. He has no business saying this.And don’t kid yourself— 8 years of playing Xbox in the house isn’t an adequate punishment for a man who did this to his wife.We’re left to wonder if this judge, who hasn’t explained his reasoning for the sentence, has some ridiculous view like Virginia Sen. Dick Black who says that a woman can’t be raped by her husband, as though marriage itself was consent.So, for letting a repeated rapist avoid jail and then berating the victim, Judge Kurt Eisgruber is the Asshole of the Day.It is Judge Kurt Eisgruber’s first time as Asshole of the Day, but one of many judges to be named Asshole of the Day:Judge Jan Jurdin sentenced a rich guy to probation for raping his 3-year-old daughter on concerns he “will not fare well in prison”Judge Brent Adams reduced a child molester’s sentence to one year after telling the family it would be for lifeJudge Jean Boyd gave a drunk driver probation after he killed 4 people because his attorney argued he had “affluenza” (growing up rich and spoiled)Judge Todd Baugh who gave a statutory rapist a 31 day sentence because the girl “looked older”Judge Jeanine Howard criticized a rape victim for not crying during the rape and sentenced the rapist to community service in a rape crisis centerJudge James Dixon let a rich guy avoid jail after his 7th DUIFull story: LA Times -- source link