When you hold a woman at gunpoint and force her to have sex against her will, you have committed rape.

It doesnÂ’t matter if she is a prostitute by trade.

Why doesnÂ’t this idiot judge understand that?

A judge in Philadelphia has come under fire for a controversial ruling in which she reduced charges so that a man accused of raping a prostitute at gunpoint faced only robbery charges for "theft of services."

Municipal Judge Teresa Carr Deni earlier this month dismissed rape and sexual assault charges against Dominique Gindraw, who is accused of forcing a prostitute at gunpoint to have sex with him and several other men. Deni left intact charges of armed robbery for theft of services against Gindraw.

Prosecuting Gindraw for rape, the judge said in a subsequent newspaper interview "minimizes true rape cases and demeans women who are really raped."

The decision — and Deni's subsequent comments to a local newspaper — prompted about 40 complaints from around the country to the local bar association, said executive director Ken Shear, as well as a campaign by women's groups to encourage people to vote against Deni when she is up for reelection Tuesday

By the way – theft of service is what you get charged with if you have an illegal cable hook-up. Forced sex at gunpoint is no more serious than stealing HBO and Showtime?

How can one argue that forced sex at gunpoint isnÂ’t rape? Especially since it meets the definition of rape under Pennsylvania law? That the judge cannot understand that is an indication not only of her unfitness for the bench, but of her fundamental lack of decency as a human being.

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