The morning I was to read the statement in the courtroom would be the second time that the man who raped me and I were going to be in the same room. But unlike that day, we were in a room open to the public, and I could say what I felt and what I thought.

A jury has found Ingmar Guandique guilty of the murder of Chandra Levy, the 24-year-old Washington intern who disappeared in 2001. Guandique had previously been convicted of assaulting two female joggers, but attorneys denied he'd killed Levy.

The judge said Tony Simmons, who raped at least three girls in his custody as a court counselor, hadn't shown enough remorse to merit his probation. Surely the massive public outrage and protests had nothing to do with it.

Juvenile justice counselor Tony Simmons raped three girls in his custody, including this then-15-year-old inside the court house, and got probation. A protest will take place next Tuesday demanding that the judge revoke the plea agreement and sentence Simmons.

Jeffrey Epstein's fortune and connections helped him get an extraordinarily light sentence for preying on young girls. And now less-fortunate predators are arguing they should get the same. Equal justice, right?

Joran Van der Sloot's defense attorney Maximo Altez has announced that he's dropping the case due to potentially violent harassment. "I've received threats, many threatening e-mails. I'm an older person. This isn't for me," he told the AP. [Newser]

Is it worth a $1,500 investment to keep a rapist from attacking again? Judging from the number of rape kits that are backlogged due to lack of funds, apparently, it's too high a price to pay for women's safety.

In 2003, Lynndie England — along with her boyfriend and at least a dozen other soldiers — posed for a series of photos documenting prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib. Now, she's a welfare mom who wants a second chance.

Today, in the electronic pages of The Daily Beast, former New York prosecutor and crime novelist Linda Fairstein pens an impassioned defense of Chris Brown's domestic abuse case sentence, inadvertently exposing her own biases in addition to the system's.