{"id":11929,"date":"2011-11-04T11:15:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T15:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11929"},"modified":"2011-11-04T11:15:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T15:15:59","slug":"the-kangaroo-family-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/11\/04\/the-kangaroo-family-court\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kangaroo Family Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/03\/sexual-assault-victim-must-pay\" target=\"_blank\">headline<\/a> says it all: &#8220;Sexual Assault Victim Must Pay Her Attacker Spousal Support&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A San Diego judge ordered Crystal Harris to pay $1,000 a month in spousal support to her ex-husband &mdash; just as soon as he finishes up his six year prison sentence for sexually assaulting her. As <em>10News<\/em> reports, &#8220;The entire assault was caught on tape and what it captured was enough to convict Shawn Harris of a felony &mdash; forced oral copulation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So why is a victim being forced to pay her attacker? According to Judge Gregory Pollock, it&#8217;s because Crystal Harris brought home six figures worth of bacon while Shawn Harris was unemployed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;I can&#8217;t look at a 12-year marriage where one side is making $400 a month, the other side is making over $11,000 and say no spousal support,&#8221; Pollock said in court. &#8220;That would be an abuse of discretion.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It sounds like a miscarriage of justice, but the law is written so that it only excludes attempted murderers from the right to receive spousal support. Another case of a bad law forcing a bad judgement (or a judge unwilling to exercise his discretion in a case that cries out for it).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headline says it all: &#8220;Sexual Assault Victim Must Pay Her Attacker Spousal Support&#8221; A San Diego judge ordered Crystal Harris to pay $1,000 a month in spousal support to her ex-husband &mdash; just as soon as he finishes up his six year prison sentence for sexually assaulting her. As 10News reports, &#8220;The entire assault [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[52,35,343,267,748],"class_list":["post-11929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-usa","tag-absurd","tag-california","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-justice","tag-sandiego"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-36p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11931,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11929\/revisions\/11931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}