The Judge Spoke To The Teenage Girl

The Judge Spoke To The Teenage Girl
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A New York man who admittedly raped and sexually assaulted four teenage girls when he was a teen was given probation on Tuesday by a judge. The judge said he “prayed” about the sentence and concluded prison time “isn’t appropriate.”
Christopher J. Belter , 20, pleaded guilty to charges of rape, sexual abuse and sexual assault. The defendant was facing a potential sentence of eight years in an Empire State prison. Belter was previously denied youthful offender status by the court for the crimes that occurred years ago–when he was 16 and 17 years old.
Niagara County Court Judge Matthew J. Murphy III , a Democrat , decided that a prison sentence would not be “appropriate,” according to The Buffalo News . The judge last ran for re-election unopposed in 2017.
“I’m not ashamed to say that I actually prayed over what is the appropriate sentence in this case because there was great pain,” Murphy said, according to WKBW . “There was great harm. There were multiple crimes committed in the case. It seems to me that a sentence that involves incarceration or partial incarceration isn’t appropriate, so I am going to sentence you to probation.”
Murphy previously put the case on hiatus after banning publication of Belter’s name–despite it already being a substantial matter of public record.
Belter previously attended Canisius High School in Buffalo, N.Y. He now lives in the City of Lockport.
In August 2018, the elite private school student invited a friend of his sister’s into his bedroom. She was going to Chicago the next day and spending the night. After she was there, he threw her onto the bed, stripped her naked, told her to stop being a baby and raped her, according to court documents cited by The New York Times .
Here’s how the judge described that rape:
[The victim] spoke about a plant that she focused on in the Defendant’s room that she focused on as he was raping her. During the rape, he told her to stop being such a baby. She focused her attention on the leaves of the plant as she cried during the attack. The Defendant told her that, if she stopped resisting, it wouldn’t hurt as much.
Over the course of the next year and a half, Belter would sexually abuse at least three more minor girls–which Murphy previously noted in factoring the denial of youthful offender status.
From the Buffalo News article by Thomas J. Prohaska :
Belter’s victims included a 16-year-old girl on the night of Feb. 3-4, 2017; a 15-year-old girl on the night of Nov. 22-23, 2017; a 16-year-old girl on Feb. 3-4, 2018; and a 16-year-old girl on Aug. 2, 2018. He initially faced charges that included first-degree rape, but on July 1, 2019, Belter pleaded guilty to two felonies – third-degree rape and attempted first-degree sexual abuse – and two counts of second-degree sexual abuse, both misdemeanors.
Steven M. Cohen , an attorney for the first woman, who is only being identified as M.M. , expressed outrage at the sentencing decision.
“My client threw up in the ladies room following the sentencing,” he said.
“Justice was not done here today,” Cohen went on. “He is privileged, he comes from money, he is white. He was sentenced as an adult, appropriately. For an adult to get away with these crimes is unjust.”
The defendant was charged with rape in the first and third degree, and sexual abuse in 2018. He pleaded out to charges of third-degree rape, attempted first-degree sexual abuse and second-degree sexual abuse in 2019. Belter was initially granted two years probation by since-retired judge Sara Sheldon . The defendant later violated the terms of his probation by viewing pornography after installing software to defeat a court-ordered content blocker.
“I have been practicing law for over 30 years,” Cohen added in comments to NBC News . “If Chris Belter was not a white defendant from a rich and influential family, in my experience he wouldn’t have received the original plea deal, and he would surely have been sentenced to prison.”
Murphy made note of the probation violation in a recent court order and observed that the defendant had “recently been treated with medication to lessen his libido.”
The judge added that Belter’s probationary status would be “like a sword hanging over your head for the next eight years.”
The defendant is scheduled to return to court in early December to determine his sex offender level.
“He is tremendously remorseful for what he’s done,” defense attorney Barry N. Covert said in response to a question directed toward the rapist about his latest chance at freedom as he left the courtroom. “There are clients who are never able to empathize with their victims no matter how much counseling they receive. Chris isn’t one of them.”
“The truth of what went on and what he did to his victims is far more egregious than the charges he pleaded to,” Cohen alleged, in comments to the Times .
“I stand before you now asking you to not let this be the end, to not let this rapist walk away from two years’ probation with a clean slate,” M.M. previously wrote in a victim impact statement. “I am asking you because you have the ability to save future girls. You have the ability to put this fire out or to let it continue burning.”
Belter attempted to apologize in court before he was sentenced to probation.
“Through treatment and reflection, I’ve come to feel deep shame and regret for my actions none of you deserved to be in this situation. I hope each of you could close that wound I gashed,” he reportedly said.
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Montana judge apologizes, protesters call for resignation
A Montana judge on Wednesday stood by his decision to send a former teacher to prison for 30 days for raping a 14-year-old girl who later killed herself, but said he "deserved to be chastised" for his comments about the young victim.
District Judge G. Todd Baugh sentenced former Billings Senior High School teacher Stacey Rambold to 15 years, then suspended all but 31 days and gave him credit for one day already served.
In handing down the sentence Monday, Baugh said the teenage victim was "older than her chronological age" and had as much control of the situation as the teacher who raped her.
Faced with a backlash over the comments and calls for his resignation, Baugh, 71, wrote an apology in a letter to the editor of The Billings Gazette. He said his comments were demeaning of all women and not reflective of his beliefs.
Later Wednesday, the judge spoke to reporters in his office. He said he was "fumbling around" in court trying to explain his sentence and "made some really stupid remarks."
"I don't know how to pass that off. I'm saying I'm sorry and it's not who I am," Baugh said. "I deserve to be chastised. I apologize for that."
However, Rambold's sentence was appropriate, he said.
Rambold was charged in October 2008 with three counts of sexual intercourse without consent after authorities alleged he had an ongoing sexual relationship with Cherice Moralez, starting the previous year when she was 14. Moralez killed herself in 2010 at age 16 while the case was pending, and the girl's mother, Auleia Hanlon, said her daughter's relationship with Rambold was a "major factor."
Hanlon said in a statement to the Gazette that she no longer believes in justice after Baugh's sentence and remarks about her daughter.
"She wasn't even old enough to get a driver's license. But Judge Baugh, who never met our daughter, justified the paltry sentence saying she was older than her chronological age," Hanlon said. "I guess somehow it makes a rape more acceptable if you blame the victim, even if she was only 14."
Under state law, children younger than 16 cannot consent to sexual intercourse.
Yellowstone County officials previously agreed to defer Rambold's prosecution for three years and dismiss the charges if he completed a sexual offender treatment program. The case was revived in December after prosecutors learned Rambold, 54, was kicked out of the program for having unsupervised visits with minors who were family members and not telling counselors he was having a sexual relationship with a woman.
Defense attorney Jay Lansing said Rambold has continued his treatment with a different program and an evaluation found him at low risk to re-offend. Prosecutors had recommended a 10-year prison term.
"My thought was, given the relatively minor violations in the sex offender treatment program, it didn't seem appropriate to put him in jail, put him in prison" for a longer time, Baugh said. "It didn't seem to me that the violations were such that the state should be able to back out of their agreement."
A protest scheduled for Thursday outside Yellowstone County Courthouse will go on despite Baugh's apology, said organizer Sheena Rice.
"I'm glad he apologized, but he should have known better as a judge," Rice said. "The fact that he said it makes me think he still believes it."
A petition will be circulated at the protest calling for Baugh's resignation. An online version of the petition had more than 17,500 signatures by late Wednesday afternoon.
If the petition and protest aren't enough to force Baugh's resignation, protesters will shift to defeating him in the 2014 election, Rice said.
Baugh was first elected to the bench in 1984 and has been re-elected every six years since then without an opponent.
He said he has no plans to resign and he has not decided whether to run again in 2014.
Yellowstone County Attorney Scott Twito previously said he disagreed with the judge's ruling but would not appeal it.
"The judge's reasons are his reasons and his reasons alone. He has broad authority under state law," Twito said Tuesday.
On Wednesday, he told the Gazette his office was reviewing the sentence to make sure it conforms to the facts of the case and the law.
Twito also said he has consulted with the appellate division of the Attorney General's Office about the case.
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