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According to Claire Lampen of News Mic, The Canadian Judicial Council held a hearing Tuesday to determine whether the words of Federal Court Justice Robin Camp during a 2014 sexual assault trial warrant his removal from the bench.
"Sex and pain sometimes go together," Camp told the victim during the trial, according to court transcripts. "That's not necessarily a bad thing."
"Sex is very often a challenge," he added.
Proceedings were initiated by four law professors with a complaint against Camp, in which they alleged that the trial had been "threaded through" with antiquated "myths" and "stereotypes" about sexual violence that caused him to misinterpret Canada's sexual assault laws.
The judge also illegally admitted testimony about the victim's sexual history and said, "a woman cannot be raped against her will," showing his fundamental misunderstanding of the crime. Camp disregarded the rape as a misunderstanding, in which "a very unhappy thing happened."
The defendant, Alexander Wagar, was only given a warning for his crime. Camp's outdated, sexist logic left the victim deeply shaken, with thoughts of suicide.
"He made me hate myself and he made me feel like I should have done something ... that I was some kind of slut," the victim said during Tuesday's disciplinary hearing. She testified that Camp asked her why she "couldn't just keep [her] knees together" and made her feel like the assault was her fault.
Lampen also says, "The CJC has only held 11 such hearings since 1971. Camp owned his mistakes in his defensestatement and has apologized, but whether or not that goes far enough remains to be seen."
"He is not perfect," Camp's lawyer, Frank Addario, said at the hearing, according to the Canadian Press. "But he's a good judge."
We cannot allow judges to make victims feel like they did something wrong. Victims of rape are victims! They cannot be allowed to use sexist thoughts to make decisions.
Shortly after the trial, Camp retires to his basement dungeon for some R&R in his leather, zip-up body suit and contemplates the concept of arousal from pain as his heavily built, Austrian man-servant forces a cheese grater across Camps genitals.
"Sex and pain sometimes go together," Camp said haltingly through gritted teeth. "That's not necessarily a bad thing."