Comments by "Wobbles And Bean" (@WobblesandBean) on "The Case of Michael Rafferty" video.

@pale_saint So men are men, but women are just "females", eh? Classic. Also there's some good news I think you'll really be interested in: it turns out that women actually don't get lighter sentences than men do. I know, right? I was shocked, too. The truth is that there's a gazillion different factors that go into sentencing a convict, you can't just look at the gender of the convict and nothing else. There's other stuff to consider, like: did they plead out or not? Were they sentenced by a jury, or a judge? Were they a first time offender or a recidivist? Were they a major cog in the criminal operation, or just a small bit player? And so on, you get the idea. According to the mathematical model, if women were held to the exact same sentencing guidelines as they do for men while ignoring all of those other contextualizing get factors, women would actually serve slightly LESS time in prison than they currently do. Seriously, this is about the single most exhaustive, comprehensive, and objective breakdown of sentencing data that you're probably ever gonna find. I highly recommend that you read it. I want to add the caveat that this paper is from 2007, but if anything society has leaned even more egalitarian since that time, so it's a bit moot. https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/2870/do-you-receive-a-lighter-prison-sentence-because-you-are-a-woman-an-economic-analysis-of-federal-criminal-sentencing-guidelines
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The whole "poor me" attitude this man wallowing in all throughout the interrogation is nine kinds of disgusting. How can he sit there, after doing what he did, and then throw himself such a massive pity party? "They threw me in a cold hard jail cell without any blankets and haven't given me anything to eat all day, I'm a viiiictiiiiiiiiim!"
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@ginapineda563 They are monsters, but she was also a teenager who was groomed by a man in his late 20s. He got with her when she was a minor. There's no question in my mind that she's where she belongs, but there also is no question that had she never met him, she would never have turned into the monster she became.
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Michael Rafferty went on to (allegedly) extort tens of thousands of dollars from his own mother from behind bars. His mom died in 2018 of heart failure, which his family says was caused by the stress Rafferty was placing on her, calling and haranguing her every single day to send more money. Every. Single. Day. He would lie to her and say he needed it as protection money to pay off other inmates. He just kept piling on more guilt until she'd finally relent and send him further payments: "You can't send any more? Oh, so then I guess you want me, your only son, to die. Well now you can be happy, cuz that's what's gonna happen, and it'll be all your fault. Have fun knowing you're a murderer." "Hi mom, guess what, I'm calling to you from the prison infirmary, I got jumped and beaten within an inch of my life. Yeah, well that's what happens when YOU don't pay the protection money I asked you for. This is YOUR fault." Even worse, not only did he demand she give HIM the money (which other inmates have said he spent on junk food and other stuff from the prison store), but also send it to other inmates and their spouses so he'd be more popular. Immediately following the death of his mother, he began haranguing his grandmother for the money instead. He didn't even miss a beat, went right to calling her the day after he learned his mom was gone. His grandmother died within a month of his relentless extortion campaign, also from a stress-induced heart attack.
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