A female judge is being urged to resign after telling a woman who was groped by an off-duty police officer that she brought the attack on herself because she was at a bar.

Judge Jacqueline Hatch, of Arizona's Coconino County Superior Court, told the unnamed woman 'if you wouldn't have been there that night, none of this would have happened to you,' at a sentencing hearing on Wednesday.

Hatch then went on to tell the courtroom that even going to the grocery store after 10pm was dangerous for women

The jury found Evans guilty of felony sexual abuse after walking up behind the woman in the bar, in Flagstaff, Arizona, putting his hands up her skirt and touching her inappropriately.