And, it brings to mind a paragraph from the Mental Disability Advocacy Center (http://www.mdac.info/en/the-need).

“The World Health Organization estimates that one in four of us will have a mental health disability at some time and many more have intellectual disabilities. With many States having ageing populations these figures are set to rise. Yet despite these very high numbers of people concerned, they remain at the margins of society, their human rights frequently ignored.”

Our federal government may chicken out of enforcing this federal law the way it is written because I have gotten the written excuse myself from the U.S. Department of Justice that they enforce handicap laws against courts rarely.

The truth is that this situation is more about politics, power, and greed than law or protecting the public. Based on how some people think we should jail, or perhaps hang, every person in the nation because we may all be criminals.

I am an autistic savant, with problems like the character in the Rain Man movie, but I also learned to use my savant skills to attempt to hide or even overcome the issues which handicap me. Considering how powerful authorities commonly order people to their death with apparently little compassion, I consider myself a less dangerous person than the majority of people.

My savant skills are always sucking up information and I get overwhelmed with the dysfunctions of your society. I say your society because it is embarrassing to me to hear people claim how great our nation is. It makes me angry to be told things can not be made better or that I should give up and not care.

Like Aaron Hart I have been accused of breaking the law as shown on my WhyHope.com website. In my case I did not know that I had the symptoms of autism and those symptoms upset local VIPs who slandered my name with claims that I would go postal and kill plus other sick ideas. Unfortunately it was the slander of the VIPs which provoked me into complaining, creating a cycle.

Today I know the truth about how delusional and dysfunctional society can act.

Mike Lake – WhyHope.com

But that is just my feeling about my experiences, and not representative of the actual victim. My point is merely that I feel that I would have been less psychologically (if not physically) impacted if the perpetrator wasn’t highly intelligent.

I also totally agree with joytulip. If this was a case of a mentally impaired male assaulting a female, we’d have a very different story on our hands. I can surmise that she’d be questioned for “leading him on” and somehow making him to do, or provoking him to do it, because of how predatory and triggering that pesky female sexuality is for men, especially a poor mentally impaired man. That the victim was male, and the sentence so high, reeks of gay panic. This guy is thought of as such a danger to society not only because he does not have a good functioning understanding of sexual boundaries (which probably led to the crime itself) but because he focused that on another man, which, of course, is horrible and gay and all kinds of gross. Whereas, if he had assaulted a girl it probably would have been totally her fault, or at least acceptable because everyone knows it’s totally women’s job to be the objects of a man’s sex aggressive and criminal behavior.

This sentencing is all kinds of fail. Ablism fail, homophobia fail, and missing the point of rape fail. What a mess.

Now to the individual case involved, I’m all for 100 years for violent, repeat sex offenders who have slim to no chance at recovery/rehabilitation (think, Fiztl), but this case is sex panic (oh, my goodness, disabled people have sexuality that needs to be addressed…this was assault, by no means am I saying that this was an innocent event, but I think that often the whole, mentally disabled people are little children meme tries to erase the fact that they are actually adults when adults, sexually speaking). Sex panic, plus the prosecutors/defense working in tandem to make an example of how tough on sex crimes they are, without actually doing the difficult work of prosecuting a gang-bang at a Frat House where they call the victim slut and show how great these “boys who will be boys are” and maybe they got carried away, but she’s the dirty slut who wanted it, kind of case. SO, perfect way to seem as though they care about victims, but really just reinforce the patriarchal status quo.

Ugh

and this : “I think that when it comes to sexual assault, when it comes to some of the most repulsive rapes you’ve ever heard of, we don’t take it nearly seriously enough. I don’t believe that suddenly, people have started taking it seriously and just happened to do so when the perpetrator is a man with a disability”

is so, so right on.

…the article identifies the crime he was on probation for as misdemeanor theft. He also faced, but had not yet received a judgment on, a charge of misdemeanor criminal mischief. Not that what he did previously was necessarily small potatoes–things get pled down often enough–but it’s just as easily shoplifting and petty vandalism.

Also, I don’t see anyone calling for his immediate and unsupervised release so much as pointing out how epicly problematic it is to hand out sentences based not on what the assailant did to the victim but on what demographics they belong to respectively.