Man convicted of raping sister gets 1 year in jail; 'stigma' is enough, says judge

Nolan Bruder, 20, of Crescent City, pleaded guilty to drugging and raping his 16-year-old sister. Nolan Bruder, 20, of Crescent City, pleaded guilty to drugging and raping his 16-year-old sister. Photo: Booking Photo Photo: Booking Photo Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Man convicted of raping sister gets 1 year in jail; 'stigma' is enough, says judge 1 / 1 Back to Gallery

A Northern California judge sentenced a 20-year-old man who drugged and raped his 16-year-old sister to less than a year in jail.

Judge William Follet said the "stigma" of the conviction along with mandatory sex offender registration requirements would "sufficiently deter" Nolan Bruder, according to ABC affiliate KRCR.

Bruder, of Crescent City, pleaded guilty earlier this month to charges of rape of an intoxicated person. He reportedly admitted giving his sister, who had resisted his sexual advances, so much high-potency marijuana known as "dabs" to smoke that she no longer recognized him as her brother.

Del Norte District Attorney Dale P. Trigg took issue with the sentence.

"I could not disagree more," Trigg said. "The message that this sends to our community is that sexual predators who get their juvenile siblings stoned enough can have sex with them without any meaningful consequence. That is not the message I want to send to our community.

"This defendant took advantage of a position of trust as this victim's big brother. He knew she didn't want to have sex with him. She told him that repeatedly. So he got her stoned on dabs he gave her until she didn't even recognize him in order get what he wanted."

Follet sentenced Bruder on Wednesday to three years, but with all but 240 days suspended in favor of probation, meaning he faces less than one year in prison, according to the Del Norte District Attorney's Office.