The Montana judge overseeing a teen girl's rape case defended his 30-day sentence to the perpetrator of the crime, and apologized for the insensitive and demeaning remarks to the family of the victim earlier, after strong objections and a petition for his resignation ensued, Chicago Tribune reported Wednesday.

Montana judge G. Todd Baugh had sentenced Stacey Dean Rambold, the former Billngs Senior High School teacher perpetrator in the rape case to 15 years imprisonment, but changed it later to a 31-day period minus one for a day the 54-year-old rapist had already served in prison, a Fox News report stated.

According to earlier reports, the Montana judge had spoken some insensitive remarks during the sentencing, saying that the teenage victim, who killed herself days after the crime had happened, apparently looked "older than her chronological age," adding that she was "as much in control of the situation."

Billing Gazette newspaper released the letter the Montana judge had sent them, after facing critical comments, backlashing, and a call for his early resignation. Baugh wrote in the letter that his comments on the victim were "women and not reflective of his beliefs."

"I think that people have in mind that this was some violent, forcible, horrible rape... It was horrible enough as it is, just given her age, but it wasn't this forcible beat-up rape," the Montana judge stated in the letter.

On Wednesday, the Montana judge told the reporters that he was "fumbling around" during the sentencing that he "made some really stupid remarks."

"I don't know how to pass that off. I'm saying I'm sorry and It's not who I am. I deserve to be chastised. I apologize for that," Baugh said.

Nevertheless, the Montana judge claimed that his sentencing to Rambold was appropriate.

Fox News stated that the victim's mother, Auliea Hanlon told the Gazette, "I don't believe in justice anymore."

"She wasn't even old enough to get a driver's license. But Judge Baugh, who never met our daughter, justified the paltry sentence saying she was older than her chronological age... I guess somehow it makes a rape more acceptable if you blame the victim, even if she was only 14," Hanlon added.

Protestors and several groups are now asking the Montana's governor and attorney general to go over the Montana judge's statements and actions in the hope that Baugh may succumb to the resignation petition.