Judge accused of 'victim-blaming' over rape comments
Judge Lindsey Kushner is warning that drunk women are putting themselves at greater risk of rape was "victim-blaming", a police commissioner has said. The female judge said women were entitled to "drink themselves into the ground" but their "disinhibited behaviour" could put them in danger. But the judge said she did not think it was wrong for a judge "to ask women to take actions to protect themselves".
Judge Kushner, 64, made the courtroom plea and she jailed a man for six years for raping an 18-year-old woman in Manchester last year.
The mother of two, who has sat as a senior circuit judge since 2002, acknowledged judges have been criticised for "putting more emphasis on what girls should and shouldn't do than on the act and the blame to be apportioned to rapists".
"There is absolutely no excuse and a woman can do with her body what she wants and a man will have to adjust his behaviour accordingly."
But she added "as a woman judge" it would "be remiss" if she did not plead with women to protect themselves from predatory men who ''gravitate'' towards drunken females.
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