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Montana judge criticized in rape case to retire

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Montana judge criticized in rape case to retire

BILLINGS, Mont. — A Montana judge said he plans to retire at the end of the year after drawing widespread condemnation for saying that a 14-year-old rape victim appeared “older than her chronological age.”

District Judge Todd Baugh said his decision to step down after three decades on the bench was unrelated to the public uproar over his actions in the case of Stacey Rambold, a former business teacher convicted of raping a freshman student at Billings Senior High School.

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