Judge Robin Camp
A
Canadian federal judge who asked a woman in a rape trial why she
couldn't keep her knees together resigned Thursday after a disciplinary
council recommended he be removed from the bench.
Judge Robin Camp stepped down before Canada's Parliament could act on the recommendation.
Camp argued that "unconscious bias"
was to blame for the offending comments. Read more below...
In addition to asking the
19-year-old why she didn't keep her knees together to fend off her
alleged attacker, he also asked her why she didn't "skew her pelvis" to
avoid penetration.
Camp apologized and said he was remorseful, claiming it showed he was amenable to rehabilitation.
But the Canadian Judicial Council was not convinced.
"We
find that the judge's conduct, viewed in its totality and in light of
all of its consequences, was so manifestly and profoundly destructive of
the concept of impartiality, integrity and independence of the judicial
role that public confidence is sufficiently undermined to render the
judge incapable of executing the judicial office," the council said in
its report.
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