Robin Camp (Picture: Andrew Balfour)
A judge has been placed under review after he questioned a rape victims attempts to stop her attacker.
Robin Camp was serving as a provincial court judge during the alleged rape case of a 19-year-old woman by a Calgary man.
The woman had accused the man of sexually assaulting her over a bathroom sink during a house party in 2014.
In the 11-page complaint to the Canadian Judicial Council, the lawyers allegedly said Camp had asked the complainant, ‘Why couldn’t you just keep your knees together?’ and, ‘Why didn’t you just sink your bottom down into the basin so he couldn’t penetrate you?’
The Canadian judge faces a review after four law professors from Dalhousie University and the University of Calgary complained that he was ‘dismissive, if not contemptuous’ toward sexual assault laws.
The complaint claims Camp ‘showed disregard, if not disdain’ for the Criminal Code’s rape shield provisions.
It added: ‘His articulated disrespect for these legal rules was, in some instances, combined with a refusal to apply them.’
Camp apologised for his actions, in a statement issued through the court, for causing ‘deep and significant pain’ to the victim and to all women who he might have discouraged from reporting sexual abuse.
The Federal Court have said Camp is ‘fully co-operating’ with the review.
A judge has been placed under review after he questioned a rape victims attempts to stop her attacker.
Robin Camp was serving as a provincial court judge during the alleged rape case of a 19-year-old woman by a Calgary man.
The woman had accused the man of sexually assaulting her over a bathroom sink during a house party in 2014.
In the 11-page complaint to the Canadian Judicial Council, the lawyers allegedly said Camp had asked the complainant, ‘Why couldn’t you just keep your knees together?’ and, ‘Why didn’t you just sink your bottom down into the basin so he couldn’t penetrate you?’
The Canadian judge faces a review after four law professors from Dalhousie University and the University of Calgary complained that he was ‘dismissive, if not contemptuous’ toward sexual assault laws.
The complaint claims Camp ‘showed disregard, if not disdain’ for the Criminal Code’s rape shield provisions.
It added: ‘His articulated disrespect for these legal rules was, in some instances, combined with a refusal to apply them.’
Camp apologised for his actions, in a statement issued through the court, for causing ‘deep and significant pain’ to the victim and to all women who he might have discouraged from reporting sexual abuse.
The Federal Court have said Camp is ‘fully co-operating’ with the review.
Metro UK
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