A former chair of philosophy at Rutgers University had sex with a man who can’t speak. The resulting court battle raised questions about when and why suffering matters in sentencing — and Anna Stubblefield went to jail.
Stubblefield had slept with a man known only by the pseudonym DJ, who has cerebral palsy and to this day has never spoken.
That’s not to say he can’t communicate, though it’s not to say he can, either — that’s what is at issue.
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