Elizabeth Armstrong Moore

Newser

(NEWSER) – Two years after a Canadian judge called an alleged rape victim "the accused," asked her "why couldn't you just keep your knees together?" and acquitted the man actually accused of sexual assault, Robin Camp is facing a public hearing that will determine whether he should keep his job.

Camp, an Alberta provincial judge since promoted to the federal court, has since apologized and sought counseling, and the CBC reports that his notice of response claims that he "understands his comments were hurtful to survivors of sexual assault and to Canadians in general."

The review comes after four law professors filed a complaint describing Camp's conduct as "dismissive, if not contemptuous" of sex assault laws, the CBC earlier reported; Alberta's Court of Appeal overturned the 2014 acquittal and ordered a new trial.

The 2014 case involved a then 19-year-old woman who accused Scott Wagar of raping her over a bathroom sink at a party. Among other comments, Camp asked why the woman couldn't "just sink your bottom down into the basin so he couldn't penetrate you?"

A judge, psychologist and expert on sexual assault laws will all testify at Camp's hearing. Camp's notice, which the Calgary Herald reports does not include a review of evidence to support his claims, says "he now understands that some of his prior thinking was infected with stereotypical beliefs and discredited myths" and agrees that his comment to the prosecutor that "I hope you don't live too long" were "rude and derogatory" and that he will "apologize unreservedly." Camp is not currently hearing any cases.

(The judge in the Stanford rape case has been pulled from a new sex assault trial.)

This story originally appeared on Newser:

Judge Faces Hearing After Telling Rape Victim to 'Keep Your Knees Together'

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