Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Globe Xmas Gift: Baugh Sentences Man to Blackboard

"Judge orders man to write ‘boys do not hit girls’ 5,000 times" Associated Press, December 25, 2013

BILLINGS, Mont. — The Montana judge who once said a teen rape victim appeared ‘‘older than her chronological age’’ has sentenced a man convicted of punching his girlfriend to write ‘‘Boys do not hit girls’’ 5,000 times.

District Judge G. Todd Baugh also sentenced Pacer Anthony Ferguson, 27, to six months in jail and to pay $3,800 in restitution for fracturing the woman’s face in three places during an August 2012 argument....

Baugh set off a public furor in August when he made the comment about the 14-year-old rape victim and sentenced her rapist, a teacher, to only a month in prison. The state is appealing the sentence and women’s groups are calling for Baugh’s removal from the bench....

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