New Jersey judge who told alleged rape victim to ‘close your legs’ is ‘remorseful,’ lawyer says

Russo was presiding over a 2016 case in which a woman was seeking a restraining order against a man who allegedly raped her when he made the comments.

“Do you know how to stop somebody from having intercourse with you,” Russo asked the woman, according to the state’s judicial conduct complaint.

She supplied some answers like “tell them to stop,” and Russo continued to urge: “What else?”

“Block your body parts,” Russo supplied. “Close your legs? Call the police? Did you do any of those things?”

…Russo denied the woman’s request for a restraining order, and in an off-the-record conversation outside the courtroom that was caught on a recording Russo was heard telling a clerk, “As an exotic dancer, one would think you would know how to fend off unwanted sexual …”

New Jersey judge who told alleged rape victim to ‘close your legs’ is ‘remorseful,’ lawyer says

Remorseful? Who gives a fuck?

He shouldn’t be on the bench. Period.

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