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A 21-Year-Old Mexican Man Escapes Rape Charges After Judge Rules Not Guilty Because He Didn’t Rape His Victim For Pleasure

<p>A judge is in the hot seat after his controversial judgment in the case of a wealthy Mexican man being accused of sexual assault went public&period; 21-year-old Diego Cruz was found not guilty of sexual assaulting a teen woman because &&num;8220&semi;he did not enjoy it&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Apparently&comma; Cruz was apart of gang called the &&num;8220&semi;Los Porkys&&num;8221&semi; and was accused of gang-raping the then 17-year-old victim along with three other privileged young men who were a part of the same crew&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The assault took place on New Years&&num;8217&semi; Day 2015&comma; and the victim claims she was forced into a car by the men&comma; who she says also went to school with her&comma; after leaving a party&period; She accuses Cruz of touching her breasts and penetrating her with his fingers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Well even with the damning testimony&comma; Judge Anuar González found Cruz not guilty of assault because Cruz did not have &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;carnal intent&period;&&num;8221&semi;  In other words&comma; because the assault took place with the intention of just humiliating the victim and not pleasure&comma; Cruz gets off with a slap on the wrist&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To add further insult to injury&comma; the judge also believes that the women was &&num;8220&semi;never helpless&&num;8221&semi; insinuating that the woman could&&num;8217&semi;ve gotten out of the car at any time&comma; even though the victim did testify that she was forced into the car&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He sexually touched her&comma; he vaginally penetrated her&comma; but because he didn’t enjoy it&comma; it’s not sexual abuse&quest;” Estefanía Vela Barba&comma; an activist on gender issues&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;telegraph&period;co&period;uk&sol;news&sol;2017&sol;03&sol;29&sol;outrage-mexican-cleared-sex-assault-schoolgirl-didnt-enjoy&sol;">told the Guardian<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Since there was no pleasure in the act&comma; it was intended to cause humiliation&period; They were touching her&comma; they were bothering her&comma; so for the judge&comma; if the intention wasn’t pleasure&comma; it’s not sexual assault&comma;” said Vela continued&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Last year&comma; the alleged victim also took to FB to share her emotions on life after the rape &colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I have nothing to repent&comma;” she wrote&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’ve gone drinking&period; I’ve gone to parties&period; I’ve worn short skirts like many girls my age … and for that I’m going to be judged&quest; For that I deserved what happened&quest;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Cruz had been living in Spain since the incident but was extradict back to Mexico the face his charges&period; Even though the results were less than desirable for the victim and her family&comma; it has definitely brought to light the way the Mexican government treat privileged citizens as if they are above the law as well as it&&num;8217&semi;s biased views on women who have been sexually assaulted<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There’s no disputing the facts&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Vela said&period; It’s not some crazy woman saying this&comma; it’s coming from the judge’s mouth and he’s saying that if they vaginally penetrate you against your will&comma; it might not be abuse&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Let&&num;8217&semi;s chat below&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>TSR STAFF&colon; Debra Oh&excl; &commat;The&lowbar;Ebony&lowbar;Issue<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;telegraph&period;co&period;uk&sol;news&sol;2017&sol;03&sol;29&sol;outrage-mexican-cleared-sex-assault-schoolgirl-didnt-enjoy&sol;<&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; center&semi;&semi;"> <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-container" data-ver&equals;"1&period;3&period;10" data-post&lowbar;id&equals;"27581" data-show&lowbar;count&equals;"true" data-enable&lowbar;share&equals;"onclick" data-behavior&equals;"regular" data-animation&equals;"true" data-share&lowbar;url&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;27581-2&sol;" data-secure&equals;"a5508e3f4d"> <div class&equals;"wpra-call-to-action" style&equals;"color&colon; 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