As I’ve often urged, judges and bureaucrats who repeatedly free thugs and rapists should be made to share a home with them. But, in one particularly revolting case in the US, it turns out she already did.
District Judge Gail Horne Ray is set to preside over the trial of Desmond Carter, 21, on August 17, as he is accused of sexually assaulting [Madison Brooks], a 19-year-old Louisiana State University (LSU) student in a car along with two other men in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana in January 2023.
Brooks was then kicked out of the car, it is claimed and struck and killed by another passing car shortly afterwards.
To say that Ray, a Democrat, may be conflicted in this case is a bit like saying Keith Richards enjoys the odd tipple.
Last month, Judge Ray’s son Nelson Taylor, 46, was hauled back into court as he attempts to have multiple convictions of rape set aside.
Some mothers sure do ’ave ’em.
Now, sure, you can argue that her son’s serial rapist career has no bearing on Ray’s judgment in rape cases, but the defendants certainly thought otherwise. A series of text messages sent to his father by Carter show the accused rapist bragging, “The judge we are getting, I think u know about but we are friends with her and she is really good for our case. Her son was accused of rape a while back so she knows to help us.”
Well, she certainly has form helping rapists. Ray was the trial attorney for her son in the trials that saw him convicted of multiple counts of rape and aggravated burglary.
No wonder Carter felt confident in boasting, the ‘judge is on our side’.
Taylor’s record is the stuff of nightmares. In 1997 he pleaded guilty to three counts of forcible rape and five counts of aggravated burglary. As a 17-year-old he broke into homes armed with gun or knife, wore a mask, and taped his victims’ eyes and mouths shut. With Momma’s help, a plea deal saved him from life: he got 50 years and walked free on parole in 2022 as a tier-three sex offender.
But, no: he dindunuffin, he insists. He is now trying to have those convictions and sentences set aside. Every judge in the 19th Judicial District recused themselves because he is Ray’s son. The Louisiana Supreme Court had to drag in a retired judge.
Not content with that, Taylor was arrested again in 2024 for exposing himself and masturbating in front of a hotel housekeeper. That case, too, has been delayed into oblivion because every sitting judge and the district attorney himself have recused over the family connection.
Yet the same mother who once defended her son in court is now expected to sit in impartial judgement over another group of men accused of gang-raping a young woman and dumping her on a highway to die. Prosecutors already tried to have Ray removed, but the state Supreme Court put her straight back on the bench.
As if the conflict of interest were not grotesque enough, Carter’s lawyers have now demanded that Madison Brooks’ family and supporters be banned from wearing pink in court. Pink was the murdered student’s favourite colour. The defence claims it creates a “carnival atmosphere” that might prejudice the jury. Prosecutors correctly call the motion absurd. The family have worn pink at every previous hearing without turning the courtroom into a circus. Apparently the real threat to a fair trial is not a judge whose own son is a serial rapist, but a few grieving people quietly wearing a colour in remembrance of the dead girl.
This is the justice system in all its inverted glory. A mother who once stood in the dock’s defence as counsel for a masked, armed teenage rapist now sits above another rape trial while the accused openly boasts that she is ‘on our side’. Every institutional safeguard collapses into recusals, delays and special arrangements the moment the judge’s own bloodline is involved. Ordinary victims get none of that courtesy.
If the public still wonders why confidence in the courts is in free fall, they need look no further than Baton Rouge. When the system treats a serial rapist’s mother as the ideal arbiter of other women’s rape cases, it is not delivering justice. It is delivering a middle finger.
