  He's Not Guilty Because Disabled Woman Didn't Fight Back?
After last week's Connecticut Supreme Court decision upholding
an Appellate Court finding that threw out the conviction of
Richard Fourtin Jr., a Bridgeport man who was found guilty of
sexually assaulting a woman with disabilities in 2008, I am
flabbergasted that people would still claim that society's
acceptance of "rape culture" is a non-issue.  The Appellate
Court claimed, in justifying its decision, that because the
defendant could "communicate by gesturing and vocalizing … and
that witnesses testified that she could indicate her displeasure
by means of gestures, physical aggression — including biting,
kicking and scratching — and by making screeching and groaning
sounds," then "no reasonable jury could have concluded that she
was physically helpless at the time of the assault."  Fourtin
was sentenced in 2008 to six years in prison for attempted
second-degree sexual assault and fourth-degree sexual assault
involving the woman, who was then 25 an