re: #149 Unshaken Defiance

*jaw hanging open* Angry words withheld. That’s the kind of thing that can touch off a violent act. Because there is one terrible way to end the rapists um, ugh… “rights”.

Ah but the state now has an interest in this reading of the law. Dollars and pride. The Prosecutors lied about consent? That should be full stop, fruit of poisoned tree kinda thing. Wrong on so many many levels, we can not count on laws we normally expect to fix this.

Indeed, the county and state have a financial interest in this ruling, since the cash-strapped Republican majority is looking for any way they can to pass the buck. We’ve heard a similar thinking in other states, forcing single mothers to name the father so he could be DNA tested and (if the test proved positive) saddled with child support payments to get the mother off welfare.

This county just put it into practice, and now will argue in the courts that it doesn’t matter how the kid was conceived, the rapist has an obligation to provide for this child and thus rights as a father. That way the state can toss her off the welfare rolls and leave her to expect child support payments from a deadbeat who probably can’t hold a job due to being a sexual predator.