{"id":397,"date":"2003-10-01T09:55:31","date_gmt":"2003-10-01T17:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/10\/01\/judge-puts-rape-victim-in-jail\/"},"modified":"2003-10-01T09:55:31","modified_gmt":"2003-10-01T17:55:31","slug":"judge-puts-rape-victim-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"Judge puts rape victim in Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkleft.com\/archives\/004456.html#004456\">Talkleft<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"snip\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/wire\/US\/ap20030930_1078.html\">A woman was <\/a>released from jail Tuesday after spending five days locked up for repeatedly failing to show up in court to testify against a man accused of raping her.[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In citing the woman for contempt of court last week, Dinkelacker said, &#8220;If victims don&#8217;t participate in the system, we don&#8217;t have justice.&#8221; The woman, who had missed a hearing as well as the two trial dates, told the judge that neighbors threatened her and her children, calling her a snitch.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As TalkLeft notes, wouldn&#8217;t it have made more sense for the judge to order police to investigate the threats and provide the woman with protection?<\/p>\n<p>The woman has now agreed to testify, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelcincinnati.com\/news\/2523695\/detail.html\">charges have again been filed <\/a>against the alleged rapist.<\/p>\n<p>When a judge acts like this, it deters other rape victims from coming forward. What an asshole.<a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=buy-viagra-daily-online\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Talkleft: A woman was released from jail Tuesday after spending five days locked up for repeatedly failing to show up in court to testify against a man accused of raping her.[&#8230;] In citing the woman for contempt of court &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=397\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-and-admin-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}