788: Jeffrey Cashe
Jeffrey Cashe is a Family Court Judge in Ponchatoula, Louisiana. In 2022, he sparked national outrage when he gave ordered a woman to pay child support to her rapist.
Republican Pro-Rape Judge (7 instances)
403: Marcia Silva
Marcia Silva was a Republican and a family court judge who refused to allow a teen rapist be tried as an adult because she believed the twelve-year-old victim wasn’t seriously harmed other than losing her virginity, which the judge decided wasn’t particularly serious even though the girl was left bleeding. “Silva wrote in her August…
402: James Troiano
James Troiano, a Republican New Jersey family court judge, refused to allow a predatory sixteen-year-old rapist to be tried as an adult because he came from “a good family” and was accepted into a good school. Trying minors as adults is questionable practice, but the totality of this case is extraordinary. A sixteen-year-old boy was…
389: Steve Sword
Steve Sword is a Tennessee Criminal Court judge appointed by Governor Bill Haslem, a Republican. Since his appointment, he was re-elected in 2012 and 2014 and he was unopposed in 2022. In 2019, he presided over a trial that ended in the conviction of David Lynn Richards Jr,. a former pastor, for repeatedly raping his adopted daughter.
367: James P. McClusky
James P. McClusky sentenced a school bus driver who confessed to raping a fourteen-year-old girl to probation, ten years probation, and designated him a Level 1 Sex Offender which meant he was not placed on the Sex Offender registry.
71: Clifton Bennett (Sen.Ken Bennett)
Clifton Bennett’s father is Ken Bennett, a Republican who has been in elected office most of the time since 1985. He’s running for Arizona Senate in the GOP primary now. In 2006, when his son was eighteen, Ken Bennett was President of the Arizona Senate. That position gave his son the sweetheart plea deal of…
676: Judge Robert Adrian
Judge Robert Adrian found Drew Clinton guilty of rape in a bench trial in October 2021. There was DNA evidence, a confession, and the survivor’s testimony. It was an easy enough conviction. But when it came to sentencing in January 2022, Adrian reversed himself, throwing out the conviction, because the 148 days Clinton had spent…