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January 24, 2006

Lax on rape; wants gay marriage

What is the lightest sentence you can get for raping one of your students, age 15? How about no jail time and a suspended sentence? In 2004 a boy at Middleboro High School in Brockton, Mass., told police he had been raped by a teacher, Gregory Pathiakis, 26. After Pathiakis pleaded guilty, Superior Court Judge Suzanne DelVecchio sentenced him to a suspended 30-month prison term, followed by five years' probation.

DelVecchio, chief justice of the Superior Court, was keynote speaker at the 2000 Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Bar Association dinner and has been accused by opponents of gay marriage of judicial impropriety by encouraging GLAD and gay activist attorney Mary Bonauto to file suit for gay marriage in Massachusetts courts.

(Hat tip to Clayton Cramer and North American Patriot.)

Posted at 12:00 PM by John Leo
 « A one-issue court debate
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John Leo
John Leo has covered the social sciences and intellectual trends for Time magazine and the New York Times. He is also the author of two books: Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police and a book of humor, How the Russians Invented Baseball and Other Essays of Enlightenment.

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