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The article above talks about another person given a lighter punishment for raping a woman. David Becker is an 18 year-old high school senior, who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting two unconscious woman in a bed at a party. Originally, the prosecutors thought that David Becker should receive a two-year sentence, and had to be registered as a sex offender , but when the case was presented to the judge, the judge ignored the prosecutor’s recommendations. The judge decided to allow David Becker to do his probation in Ohio where he was hoping to attend college, and he would have to stay away from the two girls, and register as a sex offender. This is a much lighter punishment that he was originally going to get, and when his lawyer, Thomas Rooke, was asked to speak about the matter he said “The goal of this sentence was not to impede this individual from graduating high school and to go onto the next step of his life, which is a college experience.” Seeing this comment was really upsetting, not only was the punishment much lighter than what it should have, his lawyer didn’t see a problem with him continuing his life normally. Invading someone’s privacy and violating someone’s right should not be something that is taken lightly. If someone violated another person’s body, they should be fairly convicted. Regardless of whether they were an intelligent human being and by throwing them into jail it will ruin their future, they still committed a crime.

-Stella