visitation by the defendant is in the best interests of the child. in a sense by sending them off to family court you are saying that the child born of the crime who is also a crime victim has to deal with the possibility that judge is going to say well, you know, your father did rape your mother but he never hurt you. so we have to give him fatherly rights because he hasn t ever hurt you. that is a problem. representative levy is moving forward with plans to file a bill so that, massachusetts, joins 16 other states in passing laws to protect a raped woman who chooses to raise her child. it is time we put victim s rights before criminal rights and say we have laws to protect people from government and undue prosecution but in this case an admitted rapist who is trying to interject themselves into the family s life. it is ongoing torture for the victim. how do you put a child in that situation? governor patrick is reacting to the investigation but won t