No Charges For Pastor Who Raped Mentally Disabled Woman, Thanks To Louisiana Law (VIDEO)

By Randa Morris
Addicting Info
May 18, 2015

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/05/18/pastor-david-scott-lemley-louisiana-rape-law-video/

A Louisiana pastor will not face charges of rape, after allegedly having sex with an ‘intellectually limited woman’ on multiple occasions, at the request of her father.

According to The Advocate, the 20-year-old victim has the mental capacity of a seven-year-old child. The girl’s father was arrested in November 2013 on multiple sex charges, including aggravated rape. Although he confessed to police that he had sex with his own intellectually impaired child, he was not convicted on any charges related to that. Instead he plead guilty to a lesser charge of ‘cruelty to a juvenile.’ The victim’s father served a minimal jail sentence and is currently out on probation.

Pastor David ‘Scott’ Lemley was arrested in March of 2014, following an investigation into allegations that the girl’s father also told her to have sex with him, because his wife is ‘ill’ and ‘bedridden’.

Here’s video from WBRZ in Baton Rouge, published shortly after Lemley was arrested last year:

On May 14, prosecutors announced that aggravated rape charges against Lemley were dropped, following a legal analysis that determined that the crime did not meet the standard laid out in the Louisiana criminal statute.

In the state of Louisiana, a disabled victim must have a disability that prevents the person from being able to resist, in order for prosecutors to bring charges of aggravated rape. Although the victim has the mental age of a seven-year-old, state law says that if she did not resist her rapist, or was not so severely impaired that she could not resist her rapist, then no crime was committed.

According to a representative of the District Attorney’s office, who spoke to The Advocate on May 16:

“The provision of Louisiana’s aggravated rape statute under which Lemley was arrested states that the crime occurs when the victim is prevented from resisting the act “because the victim suffers from a physical or mental infirmity preventing such resistance.”

That means it’s perfectly legal in Louisiana to use a disabled person with the mental capacity of a small child, in order to gratify yourself sexually, as long as the victim doesn’t physically resist.

Since his arrest, Lemley has spent most of his time slandering his victim in the media and telling his devoted church base that the young woman is a lair, who is ‘known for making up stories’. Now that the charges have been dropped because of a glaring legal loophole, Lemley is claiming that he has ‘been vindicated‘ by God.

That’s hardly the case. In spite of Lemley’s claims, Assistant District Attorney Sue Bernie told the Advocate that the DA’s office did not drop charges because prosecutors believe the girl ‘makes up stories.’ On the contrary, the charges were dropped because Louisiana law does nothing to protect adults with the mental and intellectual capacity of children from being sexually abused by perverted pastors and incestuous fathers.