Open season on women and girls, apparently

A judge in Oregon threw out a rape charge of a 17 year old girl by 4 men, then he convicted her of false charges because the 4 "boys" testimony seemed more credible to him and because she seemed insufficiently traumatized here:

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/front_page/1133582149167361.xml&coll=7&thispage=1

And there's a good discussion of it here:

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2005/12/03/don%E2%80%99t-just-blame-the-victim-prosecute-her/

I googled up a little on the Judge Peter Ackerman; his expertise seems to be in business and corporate law. So, how do you keep such a person with such disdain for women from having jurisdiction over other people's lives again? And I'm really asking, what organizations do we have to go after these things? If you have info, I'd appreciate it.

At least in the case in Britain that we discussed here last week, where the judge decided drunk women are open season for rape by even the security guards employed to protect, there seems to be government agencies invested in overseeing that ruling--though what gets done remains to be seen. What do we have in the US for this?

This is beyond awful.
Thanks to batchfile and supergee for links.

cross-posted to feminist here.

Edit: This is a particularly good discussion of the case adding statistics on how rare false charges of rape are.

And ginmar did a fabulous essay about the case linking it to other facets of misogyny here.

And so that I don't forget this wonderful post a conversation generated, here's another one of ginmar's I want to go back to reread when I need a giggle.