TomC
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I don't know any more about this than I've read on this thread, nor do I want to know.
But I could see this as a vicious punishment for the perp. I'm not an expert on jail, much less juvenile female facilities. But I could easily see the perp having no access to the other inmates, so they're safe. And the staff has access to the perp and might go out of their way to make "his" life a living Hell.
Putting "him" in this facility might be the ugliest thing the judge could legally do.
Tom
My reading is that the rapist will be put in isolation. So the placement in a girls facility is kind of inconsequential. But had he been charged as an adult for the violent rape of a child, he’d face a long prison term and sex offender registration.
I get all that.
But when it comes to prosecution, you've got to draw clear bright lines. Your 18th birthday is one of them, a clear bright line drawn in a murky grey. Some 18 year olds are far more self possessed than others, and some in very different ways than others. But we've got to draw a line somewhere, realizing that it isn't always accurate, or there wouldn't be any lines at all. Which would be even worse.
Tom