A man who drvgged
and r aped his 16-year-old sister has been sentenced to less than eight months
in prison.
The 20-year-old,
who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to drugging his
sister with so much high-potency cann@bis – known as ‘dabs’ – that she no
longer recognised him as her brother.
He also admitted
that she had repeatedly resisted his sexual advances before he gave her the
dabs.
After getting her
stoned, he r aped her.
Sentencing him in
from Crescent City in California, where the age of consent is 18, Judge William
H Follett noted that the teenage victim was not unconscious and took her own
clothes off.
Judge Follett
also said he believed the ‘stigma’ of the r ape conviction, as well as being
listed on the s*x offenders’ register, was enough of a deterrent for other
potential offenders.
Deputy District
Attorney Annamarie Padilla had argued that Follett should follow the Probation
Department’s recommendation to jail the r apist in a state prison for six
years.
But Follett gave
the man a three-year sentence, with all but 240 days of that suspended. The 240
days will be served in a county jail.
However, the
lenient sentencing has attracted widespread criticism, particularly from Del
Norte District Attorney Dale P. Trigg.
‘I could not
disagree more,’ Trigg told the court. ‘The message that this sends to our
community is that sexual predators who get their juvenile siblings stoned
enough can have sex with them without any meaningful consequence.
‘That is not the message I want to send to our community.’
Trigg then
brought up the controversy around Brock Turner, a 21-year-old student who
served just half of his six-month sentence for s*xually assaulting an
unconscious woman at Stanford University.
‘In a lot of
ways, this case is more egregious than Brock Turner,’ he said, KRCR TV
reported. ‘This defendant took advantage of a position of trust as his victim’s
big brother. He knew she didn’t want to have s*x with him. She told him that
repeatedly.
‘So he got her
stoned on dabs he gave her until she didn’t even recognise him in order to get
what he wanted.’
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