just one month behind bars. a sentence handed down by judge g. todd baugh has led to activists filing a complaint demanding he be thrown from the bench. if we can t get him removed through this, there is something wrong with the system. reporter: rambold raped 14-year-old cherice moralez in 2007 and while waiting for the case to go to trial cherice committed suicide. she was good, smart, artistic, she lit up a room. reporter: her mother was hoping her daughter would be vindicated, but instead of getting rambold the minimum two-year sentence the judge told the courtroom cherice was in as much control of the situation as rambold saying she appeared older than our chronological age. the judge later apologized. what i said was demeaning to all women and not what i believe in. reporter: he tried to change the 30-day sentence, but prosecutors had already appealed to the montana supreme court which could take 18 months.