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In reply to the discussion: ‘Boys will be boys’ Montana prosecutor tells 5-year-old rape victim’s mom [View all]sheshe2
(88,965 posts)6. Yeah Fred
Missoula County Attorney Fred Van Valkenburg denies claims his prosecutors routinely discriminated against women in sexual assault cases.
“First and foremost, I think that this is one of the most unfair, unethical things that I have witnessed in 35 years of public life,” Van Valkenburg told the Missoulian newspaper.
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He claims the report released Friday is retribution and said the feds have provided no evidence of the allegations.
“It’s impossible to believe these things are true,” Van Valkenburg told the Missoulian. “This is not how the Missoula County Attorney’s Office Conducts itself. These are half-truths, mistruths and maybe even outright lies.”
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/boys-boys-mont-prosecutor-tells-5-year-old-rape-victim-mom-report-article-1.1616670#ixzz2tYAGvFxG
“First and foremost, I think that this is one of the most unfair, unethical things that I have witnessed in 35 years of public life,” Van Valkenburg told the Missoulian newspaper.
snip
He claims the report released Friday is retribution and said the feds have provided no evidence of the allegations.
“It’s impossible to believe these things are true,” Van Valkenburg told the Missoulian. “This is not how the Missoula County Attorney’s Office Conducts itself. These are half-truths, mistruths and maybe even outright lies.”
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/boys-boys-mont-prosecutor-tells-5-year-old-rape-victim-mom-report-article-1.1616670#ixzz2tYAGvFxG
Keep talking about unfair and unethical. Yeah, I can see how sad you are that your office is being targeted
You F**k! Where is fair and ethical when you dealt with the victims of rape and abuse.
In a statement that accompanied the Justice Department’s report, Jocelyn Samuels, acting assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, said practices by the Missoula County Attorney’s Office “strongly suggest gender discrimination.”
To wit, she said:
-- Sexual assaults of adult women in Missoula are given low priority by the county attorney’s office.
-- Van Valkenburg doesn’t provide adequate knowledge or training to deputy county attorneys to effectively and impartially investigate and prosecute sexual assault cases.
-- The county attorney’s office, on its own or in cooperation with other law enforcement agencies, “generally does not develop evidence in support of sexual assault prosecutions.”
-- Adult women victims are often treated with disrespect, kept uninformed of case status and are “revictimized by the process.”
-- And Van Valkenburg’s office fails on a routine basis “to engage in the most basic communication about its cases of sexual assault with law enforcement and advocacy partners.”
http://helenair.com/news/local/state-and-regional/doj-takes-missoula-cty-attorney-to-task-over-sexual-assault/article_1224aa6c-960f-11e3-a78f-0019bb2963f4.html
To wit, she said:
-- Sexual assaults of adult women in Missoula are given low priority by the county attorney’s office.
-- Van Valkenburg doesn’t provide adequate knowledge or training to deputy county attorneys to effectively and impartially investigate and prosecute sexual assault cases.
-- The county attorney’s office, on its own or in cooperation with other law enforcement agencies, “generally does not develop evidence in support of sexual assault prosecutions.”
-- Adult women victims are often treated with disrespect, kept uninformed of case status and are “revictimized by the process.”
-- And Van Valkenburg’s office fails on a routine basis “to engage in the most basic communication about its cases of sexual assault with law enforcement and advocacy partners.”
http://helenair.com/news/local/state-and-regional/doj-takes-missoula-cty-attorney-to-task-over-sexual-assault/article_1224aa6c-960f-11e3-a78f-0019bb2963f4.html
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‘Boys will be boys’ Montana prosecutor tells 5-year-old rape victim’s mom [View all]
sufrommich
Feb 2014
OP
MT GOP: If those trollops didn't want to get raped, those tramps would have been born men!
Nanjing to Seoul
Feb 2014
#5
Isn't this the same county where that teacher got 30 days for raping a 14-year-old student?
alp227
Feb 2014
#8
Montana seems to be a state that often votes dem in state but in national/pres election goes
JI7
Feb 2014
#14
And isn't "boys will be boys" really the same argument as "bonobos do it so we can't help but do it
Squinch
Feb 2014
#15
Well, since you have said it doesn't exist, it must not! My experiences and observations
Squinch
Feb 2014
#18
1 in 3/4 in military or college not enough for you? Really? How many girls need to be raped before
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#24
ya... trying to make short using iphone. one in every 3 or 4 girls raped in military and college.
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#27
4-6 country as a whole. false rape 2-3% in u,s. and united kingdom and please do not use that in
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#33
I often wonder, if these victims of rape were the daughters, sisters, mothers, or
Thinkingabout
Feb 2014
#28
If they also read bible scriptures to the crooks I doubt the results would be much different.
Thinkingabout
Feb 2014
#34