Kentucky Judge and the EVIL System Protects Predators Over 17 Year Old Girl

This is typical of a southern state... Protect the "god ole boys" while the poor girl is victimized. These boys are predators and should be on the sex offender list for life like everyone one else who does things like this!



A Kentucky girl who was sexually assaulted could face contempt of court charges after she tweeted the names of her juvenile attackers.

Savannah Dietrich, the
17-year-old victim, was frustrated by a plea deal reached late last
month by the two boys who assaulted her, and took to Twitter to expose
them--violating a court order to keep their names confidential.

"There you go, lock me up,"
Dietrich tweeted after naming the perpetrators. "I'm not protecting
anyone that made my life a living Hell." Her Twitter account has since been closed.

Attorneys for the attackers asked a Jefferson District Court judge to
hold Dietrich in contempt for lashing out on Twitter. She could face up
to 180 days in jail and a $500 fine if convicted. The boys have yet to
be sentenced for the August 2011 attack.

"So many of my rights have been taken away by these boys," Dietrich told Louisville's Courier-Journal.
"I'm at the point, that if I have to go to jail for my rights, I will
do it. If they really feel it's necessary to throw me in jail for
talking about what happened to me as opposed to throwing these boys in
jail for what they did to me, then I don't understand justice."

Dietrich was assaulted by the pair after passing out at a party. They later shared photos of the assault with friends.

"For months, I cried myself to sleep," Dietrich said. "I couldn't go out in public places."

On June 26, the boys pleaded
guilty to first-degree sexual abuse and misdemeanor voyeurism. Terms of
their plea agreement were not released.

"They got off very easy,"
Dietrich, who says she was unaware of the plea agreement before it was
announced in court, said in her interview with the newspaper.

"They said I can't talk about it
or I'll be locked up," Dietrich tweeted after hearing, according to the
paper. "So I'm waiting for them to read this and lock me up."

"[Protecting rapists] is more important than getting justice for the victim in Louisville," she added.

A hearing for the contempt of
court charge is scheduled for July 30. Attorneys for Dietrich want it
open to the media, while the boys lawyers want it closed.

Both the Gannett-owned
Courier-Journal and Dietrich's attorneys "have filed motions to open the
proceedings, arguing she has a First Amendment right to speak about
what happened in her case," the newspaper said.

An online petition asking the judge to throw out the charges against Dietrich, launched Saturday, has already accumulated hundreds of signatures.

"[She] should not be legally
barred from talking about what happened to her," Gregg Leslie, executive
director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, told the
Associated Press. "That's a wide-ranging restraint on speech."