When the justice systems lets us down…AGAIN!

Hacker who exposed rapists could serve longer prison term than the rapists

A rape victim has been let down by the justice system….again.

Of course, I am referring to the Steubenville rape case, where two high school football students were convicted of sexually assaulting a young girl. According to thinkprogress.com:

“The case gained national attention after the “hacktivist” group Anonymous leaked significant social media evidence implicating the assailants — including tweets, Instagram photos, and a 12-minute video of Steubenville high schoolers joking about the rape. But it turns out that working to expose those rapists may land one Anonymous hacker more time in prison than the rapists themselves will serve.”

The rapists will serve a two year sentence while 26 year old Deric Lostutter could face up to ten years in jail for hacking crimes if convicted.

So all of a sudden it’s alright to rape someone, you get a slap on the hand for it, but expose the rapists and you get locked up for a decade? Both the Canadian and the US justice systems need to get their priorities straight. Doesn’t anybody see something wrong when potheads and hackers serve more time than rapists, the true danger to society?

Lostutter told Mother Jones: “They want to make an example of me, saying, ‘You don’t fucking come after us. Don’t question us.’”

The war on drugs is a costly battle the US and Canada is fighting- but there is a deeper battle our governments are not acknowledging and nor prioritizing, and that is the battle against rapists, child molesters and sex offenders. This is the safety of our children. The safety of our mothers, sisters and the women in our lives. This is also about teaching the young men in our society that this is wrong. No matter how she is dressed and how much she has had to drink, NO MEANS NO. You do not have the right to touch someone in any way that makes the uncomfortable. This goes both ways, boy to girl and girl to boy.

We need to keep speaking up about this. It is time the world stopped letting sex offenders off lightly for their crimes. Minor or not, if you knew what you were doing when you committed the crime, then you can be convicted accordingly. If you think you are big enough to hurt a girl and rape her, you can damn well be sentenced as such.

As for Lostutter, he was exposing a crime that devastated the life of a young girl who forever has to live with what happened to her. For that, he is going away for longer than the real criminals.

In the meantime, Lostutter has a costly legal battle on his hands and needs help. As someone who is standing up for the victims, he deserves it. More information on how to help Lostutter can be found here: https://www.wepay.com/donations/deric-lostutter–ky-anonymous-defense-fund

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