Alabama Serial Rapist Convicted on All Charges

This is a bit of good news on a really disturbing case.  Jonathan "Master" Lockett was convicted of luring sex workers for dates, then pistol whipping them, taking their phones, forcing them to give him oral sex, and other things.  It was a total of 35 felonies.

It shouldn't have bothered me what his defense lawyer said, but it did.  I'm sick to death of every rapist saying, "No, I didn't.  She wanted it.  It was her idea," the same old victim-blaming bullshit. 

Thank God for the people working on the rape-kit backlog.

WVTM13:

"Jefferson County's Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, or SAKI, team helped link Lockett to 14 sex crime victims.

The team has been working for years to eliminate a backlog of 4,000 untested rape kits.
Their research has helped identify more than 120 serial rapists, of which they argue Lockett is one of the worst.
In addition to the sex crimes, Lockett is also charged with multiple counts of kidnapping, robbery and theft."

I'm not mad at defense lawyers for doing their jobs.  I don't want us to throw even guilty people into dungeons without having their defense in court.  But the rape culture is so, so old and tired.  He was found GUILTY on all 12 of the rape, sodomy and sexual torture charges so his attorney can suck it (consensually).

So I'm glad this time it didn't work even though the women were drug users and sex workers.

He faces a sentence of 20 years to life in October.