Enough is Enough: Rapists need to go to jail. For the rest of their lives.

A school bus driver raped a 14-year-old. He won’t spend a day in prison.

Man Avoids Prison Time Despite Admitting to Holding Teen Girl as Sexual Captive for a Year

WTF? Why am I still seeing these headlines in 2019? Has the #Metoo movement taught us nothing? Did the Brock Turner trial teach us nothing? Enough is enough.

School bus driver Shane Piche plead guilty to the rape of a 14-year-old girl he met on his route. He was sentenced to 10 years’ probation for this horrific crime.

Michael Ren Wysolovski held a teen Aspergers patient as a sexual captive. He, too, got 10 years’ probation.

Why such lenient sentences? Well James McCluskey, the judge overseeing Piche’s case, pointed out that Piche had only one victim. What, do rapists have to meet a quota now before they get a sentence that matches their hideous, life-altering crimes? “You’d better ruin the lives of at least five defenseless young women, Bro, or you don’t get your 50 years in prison and your toaster oven!”

As for Wysolovski, well, because his 16-year-old Asperger’s patient victim ran away from home with the man who later kept her in a dog cage and denied her food unless she had sex with him, it was apparently too darned hard to prosecute him on anything except for first-degree cruelty to children caused by “excessive physical pain during sexual intercourse” and interstate interference with custody (da crap does that mean?)— even though “There were a number of things he made her do that she didn’t want to do.”

Um, excuse me? Isn’t that rape? Let’s look it up!

Definition of rape

(Entry 1 of 4)

1 : unlawful sexual activity and usually sexual intercourse carried out forcibly or under threat of injury against a person’s will or with a person who is beneath a certain age or incapable of valid consent because of mental illness, mental deficiency, intoxication, unconsciousness, or deception

Thanks, Merriam-Webster.

In these cases, the survivors get the life sentences. They are sentenced to a lifetime of anxiety, depression, anger, physical and emotional anguish. And, I would imagine, they will advance through life with the knowledge that their lives as women don’t matter.

The justice system failed these women, but we can help. A movement is underway to take James McCluskey off the bench. And, as always, we can support organizations like RAINN (The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network).

I don’t want to hear one more whiner complaining about how the justice system is geared toward women and girls. I don’t want to read one more headline declaring that a convicted rapist will get no jail time.

I do want rapists to go to jail for the rest of their natural lives. Enough is enough.