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[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I don't know if this article says but others have noted he has other charges pending, and the judge stated after the victim impact statements that he clearly has a pattern of sexual abuse, I'm also not swayed at all by the difference in conviction of rape vs how many times he actually raped in real life, often in these and also serial murder cases, the prosecution will focus on one or two instances that are easier to convict rather than every instance it reportedly happened, I don't agree with this commonality of the legal system, it is what they do, unfortunately, and it allows people to minimize crimes in a lot of cases because someone was only technically convicted once. he's an abuser with many victims, he's rape more than one woman for certain, I don't care how the prosecution decides to arrange the charges.