Judge admits he made mistake in sentencing Misty Roberts, who faced up to 17 years in prison after conviction
The former Louisiana mayor Misty Roberts has completed the 90-day jail sentence she received for raping a 16-year-old boy while still in elected office and been released from custody, according to state corrections records.
The 44-year-old finished her jail term on what was the Labor Day holiday in the US, one week after the judge who presided over her case rejected a request from prosecutors to force her to serve a harsher sentence.
Judge Kent Savoie nonetheless acknowledged in court he was mistaken to have based Roberts’ sentence off of a list of more than 30 cases that were resolved through plea deals, unlike her prosecution, which culminated in a jury trial and guilty verdict, the Louisiana news station KPLC reported.
“I asked someone to get me a list of cases similar,” Savoie was quoted as saying on 31 August. “I made an assumption, and that assumption was wrong.
Even judges themselves.
There is a deeply female-chauvinist and misandric stigma, by which women and girls receive lighter sentences for the same crimes (or receive no sentences at all), and which is even worse if the victim is a man or a boy; there is also a stigma that is both male-chauvinist and female-chauvinist, both misogynistic and misandric, by which it is not accepted that we men and boys can be raped, sexually abused, or sexually harassed, due to the “Women are wonderful” bias and the deeply rooted false idea that we men and boys are potential criminals.