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Sunday, October 21, 2007 

When is Rape Not Rape?

Well, in Philadephia...
A DEFENDANT accused of forcing a prostitute at gunpoint to have sex with him and three other men got lucky, so to speak, last week.

A Philadelphia judge dropped all sex and assault charges at his preliminary hearing.

Municipal Judge Teresa Carr Deni instead held the defendant on the bizarre charge of armed robbery for - get this - "theft of services."

Unbelievable.

Deni told me she based her decision on the fact that the prostitute consented to have sex with the defendant.

"She consented and she didn't get paid . . . I thought it was a robbery."
The rest of Jill Porter's column discusses the details of the incident at length and has more comments from the judge. Amazing.

And here I thought it was when someone with a "D" behind their name committed it.

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