"You can't be raped if you're already a whore"

.....is essentially what a Philadelphia judge told a rape victim, who just happened to be a prostitute.

"The sex worker, a 20-year-old single mother, negotiated sex with the defendant over the phone. When she arrived, she agreed to have sex with his friend for an additional charge.

Instead, the friend arrived and pulled a gun. Two other men also arrived, and the four forced her to have sex at gunpoint.

But Deni dropped the rape charges stemming from the Sept. 20 incident because she believed that the prostitute had "consented and she didn't get paid."

"I thought it was a robbery," she told me.

Deni also told me the case "minimizes true rape cases and demeans women who are really raped" - which seemed to confirm DeSipio's claim that her ruling was based on moral contempt rather than the law."

There is not a ton of information online about this story but the article mentions a grassroots movement to have this judge fired, and rightfully so. Anyway I'll stay off the soapbox for this issue - I think it kind of speaks for itself.

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