Shame on Justice Robert Dewar

Our Canadian justice system is badly broken. We used to blame the Liberals when they were in power.... now we don't even have that outlet. This particular judge was appointed by the Conservative govt. What a disappointment he has turned out to be.

.....In explaining why 40-year-old Kenneth Rhodes will serve a two-year curfew-bound conditional sentence for a crime dating back nearly five years, Justice Robert Dewar said the "protection of society is not advanced one iota by putting Mr. Rhodes in jail.".....




....It was the insensitive and, alas, ignorant way Justice Dewar characterized the perpetrator -- who was 36 at the time -- as a "clumsy Don Juan," while describing the then-20-year-old victim as being braless in a tube top.

The judge -- who has a nerve calling anyone clumsy -- went stumbling on.

"This is a different case than one where there is no perceived invitation," the judge said during the sentencing hearing on Feb. 18, more than four months after he found Rhodes guilty of forcing himself on the young woman on a dark highway in the summer of 2006. Dewar, who has an adult daughter of his own, tried to downgrade the seriousness of the assault by calling it a case of "misunderstood signals" and "inconsiderate behaviour."

Then, tripping over his tongue and his black judge's robes at the same time, Dewar attempted not to point the finger at the victim, while pointing it at the victim.

"I'm sure whatever signals were sent that sex was in the air were unintentional," he remarked, in the process re-victimizing the victim......

Here's a vid of the women marching in protest at the foolish remarks from this seasoned person who should have known better than to think that if a woman is scantily dressed she is asking for it...his verdict tells us that that's how his mind works.