An Alaskan judge and prosecutor let a white man go without jail time who had nearly choked to death a young Alaska Native woman he had offered a ride to. After choking her unconscious He told her “...he needed her to believe she was going to die so that he could be sexually fulfilled,"
Apparently, the assistant DA and the judge decided the guy was a pretty good guy and “deserved a pass” on this crime. Anybody who is at all familiar with problems faced by Native Women know they are raped at a rate 3-4 times higher than any other group. I would guess a small percentage report these assaults to the police. Alaska's governor has vowed to make changes. We’ll see.
The Alaska Star reported that Schneider’s victim, described only as a 25-year-old Native American woman, was not at the hearing and had, according to police, been traumatized “to the point where she couldn’t hardly speak” after the assault.
Late Friday, Walker pledged to propose changes to state statutes governing sex crimes. The move comes two days after Justin Schneider, 34, walked out of an Anchorage courtroom with no jail time following a plea deal. The issue was first reported by KTVA-TV.
Last year, Schneider was charged with attacking and strangling an Anchorage woman unconscious after an assault in broad daylight. After the assault, he masturbated on her, spraying his semen across her body, before offering her a tissue and leaving. The tissue was collected as evidence, and the woman promptly reported the crime, which was witnessed by a bystander.
Schneider faced four felony charges and one misdemeanor, but under a deal with prosecutors, he pleaded guilty to only one felony assault charge in exchange for having all the other charges dropped.
He was sentenced to two years in prison with one suspended, but because he received credit for time served while wearing an ankle monitor and living under house arrest, he left the courthouse with no additional time to serve. In addition, Schneider is not required to register as a sex offender…
...Anchorage Assistant District Attorney Andrew Grannik said at the sentencing, “I would like the gentleman to be on notice that that is his one pass — it’s not really a pass — but given the conduct, one might consider that it is.”
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“(The victim) said that she had never met the man in her life prior to this encounter, and nothing else about their encounter involved drugs, sex or money, or sex for money,” Sarber wrote.
Instead of heading to Muldoon, the driver said he had to get something from another car and drove to the area of 36th Avenue and Turnagain Street, where they were stopped by road construction. A construction worker in the area later remembered Schneider, the victim and the SUV when police asked about them.
Schneider then stopped the SUV on 36th east of Wisconsin Street, and asked the victim to get out while he loaded items into the vehicle. Once she approached the rear of the vehicle, Sarber wrote, Schneider “full on tackled” her, shoving her to the ground. He then began to strangle her with both hands around her throat, telling her that he was going to kill her.
"She said she could not fight him off, he was too heavy and had her down being choked to death," Sarber wrote. "(The victim) said she lost consciousness, thinking she was going to die."
When the victim woke up, she told police, Schneider was rising from her and zipping up his pants. He offered her a tissue, which police later recovered as evidence.
"The man told her that he wasn't really going to kill her, that he needed her to believe she was going to die so that he could be sexually fulfilled," Sarber wrote.
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I’d bet my life if a Native man did this to a white woman the prosecutors would have thrown the book at him. I could puke...