RUTGERS U PROFESSOR BEGS FOR MERCY AFTER CONVICTION FOR RAPING DIAPER CLAD MUTE SUFFERING FROM CEREBRAL PALSY

Anna Stubblefield, the former chair of the philosophy department at Rutgers University, wrote a long handwritten letter from jail to Judge Siobhan Teare begging for mercy because she had been motivated by love when she had sex with the disabled man

Here we have another educated idiot in academia. Anna Stubblefield, the former chair of the philosophy department at Rutgers University, was convicted of raping a diaper clad mute suffering from cerebral palsy who, it was determined, was incapable of giving consent.

On December 26, Dr. Stubblefield wrote a long handwritten letter from jail to Essex County Superior Court Judge Siobhan Teare, begging for mercy because she had been motivated by love when she had sex with the disabled man. She claimed their “romantic relationship was consensual and mutually loving.”

The professor’s letter failed to impress Judge Teare because on Friday he sentenced the educated idiot to a 12-year term in prison.

Dr. Stubblefield will enjoy ample opportunities to find mutually loving romantic relationships with her fellow prison inmates.

‘IT WAS MOTIVATED BY LOVE’: PROFESSOR’S BEGGING LETTER TO JUDGE WHO JAILED HER FOR SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH A DIAPER CLAD MAN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY WHO COULD NOT SPEAK
In the letter, Anna Stubblefield claimed their ‘romantic relationship was consensual and mutually loving’

By Julian Robinson

Daily Mail
January 25, 2016

A professor convicted of sexually assaulting a disabled man wrote a begging letter to a judge insisting she had only been acting out of love.

Anna Stubblefield, the former chair of the philosophy department at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, was jailed for 12 years over her relationship with the 35-year-old man who has cerebral palsy and is unable to speak.

The 46-year-old, who was accused of using her position to take advantage of the man, known as DJ, said he had consented to the relationship by communicating on a keyboard.

In a letter she wrote from the Essex County Correctional Facility, she told Superior Court Judge Siobhan Teare that her actions 'were motivated by love, and my love was grounded in my belief in (the disabled man's) intelligence and humanity'.

The December 26 note, obtained by NJ Advance Media, was sent to the judge prior to sentencing and stated the same arguments she had used while giving evidence during her trial.

'I believed that he and I were intellectual equals and that our romantic relationship was consensual and mutually loving.'

She added that she was 'raised by parents who are committed to the cause of equal rights for people with disabilities'.

Stubblefield wrote that she originally saw the man as a friend but that 'then something happened that took me by surprise – we fell in love.'

She said she would have 'waited' had she foreseen his family's negative reaction to the relationship.

Stubblefield added: 'I regret and sincerely apologize for the distress my actions have caused to his family.'

On her release, Stubblefield will be on supervised parole for the rest of her life and will be required to register as a sex offender.

The tense and emotional sentencing hearing earlier this month included testimony from the victim's brother and Stubblefield's daughter. Stubblefield's daughter was later removed from the courtroom by officers after cursing at the brother.

Stubblefield met the 35-year-old man in 2009 through his brother, who had been taking her course. Over the next two years, Stubblefield worked with the man using a method known as facilitated communication. She argued that although he could not speak, he could communicate by typing.

She said the two were in love and they revealed their sexual relationship to his mother and brother in 2011.

Prosecutors challenged the method of facilitated communication, and psychologists determined that he was mentally incompetent and couldn't consent to sexual activity.

The judge barred expert testimony on facilitated communication, determining it's 'not a recognized science.'

She was put on trial after being accused of raping the mute, diaper-wearing man in her office in Newark, New Jersey in 2011.

The philosophy professor testified in her own defense last month that she and the man, known to the court only as DJ, were in a consensual relationship and 'in love'.

DJ, who is unable to speak, needs help eating and walking and is forced to wear diapers, is intellectually disabled, according to his mother and brother who act as his legal guardians.

In Stubblefield's written explanation of her sexual interactions with DJ, she wrote he had 'he lowered himself off the bed on to the floor and scooted out the door down the hall to the front room'.

The prosecutor said DJ uses 'scooting' as a method of communication, to get to the fridge if he is hungry or to the sink if he is thirsty. Plant suggested DJ used 'scooting' during the sexual interaction with Stubblefield in order to get away.

'He did not understand what was going on, did not have the ability other than to scoot out,' Plant said.

During the trial the prosecution had questioned how DJ could communicate if he wanted to stop during another sexual incident on the floor of Stubblefield's Newark office. Stubblefield said he could bang on the floor.

Stubblefield, who plans to appeal her conviction, had faced a maximum prison sentence of 40 years on Friday. Prosecutors asked for a 15-year sentence, while her lawyer asked for probation.