Appointment had triggered outrage and protests

Kudos to all who signed the petition!! The times, they are-a-changin'!! :-)

A former US judge who gave a man convicted of child pornography just four days in jail, even though he possessed dozens of disgusting photos, including ones of a baby being raped, and who sentenced a man for a sexual assault to just six months in prison, has been fired from his new job as a school tennis coach following an outcry from pupils and parents.

Aaron Persky, who was ousted as a judge last year over his lenient sentencing of Stanford University student Brock Turner, had been hired over the summer to coach girls at Lynbrook High School in San Jose, California.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhpru3j-Ij8 (00.41)

The district schools authority said it terminated his employment this week after more than 1,200 people signed a petition condemning the appointment as “reprehensible”. Protests had also been planned.

Mr Persky, 57, became the first California judge to be removed from office in 86 years after losing a recall vote in June 2018. Campaigners said Turner's sentence helped to perpetuate a “culture of impunity for high-status perpetrators of sexual assault or domestic violence”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sjE_HyxtE4

Incidentally cough, retired judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell, who defends Persky in the video above, was assistant dean at Stanford Law School, and Stanford's vice provost, which might explain why she stands by a judge who gave a lenient sentence to a Stanford student.

She got numerous awards for 'breaking race and gender barriers'. LOL.

I think 'hypocrite' would be an appropriate term here. And her case is a friendly reminder that appointing female judges won't necessarily change things for the better.

"We just witnessed a huge moment in history. ...the people of Santa Clara County, California voted to recall Judge Aaron Persky. This result is an enormous victory for women’s rights, victims of sexual assault and American democracy. By recalling Persky, we’re sending a message that the fight to recall rape culture is real and the people will not be ignored." (Melissa Kirtley)

Prosecutors had called a six-year jail term for the student, a star of the elite university's swimming team, after he was convicted of sexually assaulting and attempting to rape an unconscious woman on campus in 2015.

But the judge sentenced him to six months, of which he served only three. He ruled Turner bore “less moral culpability” because he was drunk at the time of the attack and said prison would have “a severe impact on him”.

The case provoked widespread outrage after the survivor’s victim impact statement, which spoke of her lasting trauma, was published online and went viral.

The petition objecting to Mr Persky’s appointment as tennis coach accused the school of “explicitly and ignorantly allowing rape culture to ensue”. It said his role would mean schoolgirls being supervised by man who allowed sexual assault to be “brushed under the rug”.

In a statement released to local media on Tuesday, Fremont Union High School District said the former judge was “a qualified applicant for the position” and was hired after completing a background check.

But the following day, amid a growing backlash, it said: “Mr Persky's employment with the district as the junior varsity girls tennis coach has ended. We believe this outcome is in the best interest of our students and school community.”

A former Lynbrook student told NBC News the appointment was “a pretty big oversight”.

The row came a week after the woman attacked by Turner publicly revealed her identity for the first time. Chanel Miller, who was referred to in court papers as Emily Doe, is to release a memoir which her publisher said would “change the way we think about sexual assault forever”.

Persky did not just mishandle the child pornography case and the 2016 Brock Turner case. Persky has a pattern of making bad decisions that protect dangerous men – especially athletes.

More than once, he customised football players’ sentences around their game schedules as to not hurt their careers after they were found guilty of sexual assault, domestic violence and other violent crimes against women.

More info about these other cases here: https:// www.recallaaronpersky.com

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The slow one now

Will later be fast

As the present now

Will later be past

The order is rapidly fadin'

And the first one now

Will later be last

For the times they are a-changin'

(Bob Dylan)