The judge ruled that a woman forced by a client to have sex with three other men at gunpoint should be considered just "a robbery."Salon.com's Broadsheet quotes the Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association's condemnation of the decision: "Even though the woman is a prostitute, it doesn't mean she couldn't be a victim. Once she says 'No, it's not okay,' then to have sex with her is rape."
It's amazing the judge could have thought otherwise, but she even defended the decision later to the press.
According to the AP article:
Municipal Judge Teresa Carr Deni heightened the furor when she defended her decision to a newspaper. ''She consented and she didn't get paid,'' Deni told the Philadelphia Daily News. ''I thought it was a robbery.''Learn more about the back story here.
Deni also told the newspaper that the case ''minimizes true rape cases and demeans women who are really raped.''
How can someone honestly think that a prostitute has fewer rights under the law than other women?
