|
|
Post by minx on Jan 27, 2024 11:16:14 GMT -5
I am beyond fucking tired of suspended sentences. Either your crime was such that you should be in jail for xxx amount of time, or it isn't.
Latest example. Brooke Point swim coach making suggestive comments to girls on the team. Sat next to a 15 year old girl on the bus to a meet and started asking about her sex life. On the trip back, he draped a blanket over them, and massaged her genital for EIGHT minutes. Poor girl was in shock and too afraid to yell or say anything. And it seems this wasn't the first time he pulled this shit either.
Sentence? 11 years, with all but 1 year 4 months suspended. About the same amount of time he's been sitting there awaiting trial. Oh, and he'll be on the sex offender list and can't watch porn.
This is why people don't report rape or other forms of sexual assault. Why put yourself through that trauma when this is the result?
|
|
|
|
Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Jan 27, 2024 12:03:25 GMT -5
The suspended sentences are usually an active thing. Meaning that if the offender is convicted again, that time is reinstated. It's sort of like being on parole, which is probably the case in the majority of those cases.
As you know, I'm not the one to ask about leniency for shit like this or for any sexual or violent crime. There's been an ongoing theme with Stafford County when it comes to the light sentencing and this is a good example of that perception. He should have been given at least 5 years behind bars and the rest on parole, added to the registry, made to attend counseling, and prohibited from any contact with minors outside of his own family and/or children.
In Saudi Arabia, they'd just cut off his hands. Not that I'm a fan of Sharia Law, but there are times when you can't argue with success.
|
|
|
|
Post by minx on Jan 29, 2024 10:36:04 GMT -5
I'm in a FB group for moms of trans kids.
One of them posted yesterday that her daughter went to the store to pick up something and was jumped by 6 teens. They shaved her head and beat the living shit out of her. She's in the ICU in critical condition.
And yeah, I hope they throw the book at those scumbags. But I suspect that they too will receive a slap on the wrist and a suspended sentence.
And there are too many stories about folks on those sentences who violate the terms and don't get hauled in until they do it several times.
I can see them for a non-violent crime. Shoplifting below a certain dollar amount, some types of embezzlement, drunk and disorderly. But if you're convicted of a violent crime, you need to do the time.
But prosecutors also want the easy win too - so they can say that they convicted this child molester, even though he's out and free to do it again. Only this time, he'll be a little threatening so the girl doesn't say anything.
|
|
|
|
Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Jan 29, 2024 19:24:08 GMT -5
How about they stay in jail the same amount of time it takes their victims to FULLY recover?
In answer to your next question: I know.
|
|
|
|
Post by minx on Jan 30, 2024 9:38:52 GMT -5
I'd like to see a group of folks just randomly catch each one alone and open a can of whoop ass on them.
Pick them off one by one. See how they like it when they're on the other side of the fist and an angry mob.
Problem is that normal people wouldn't be willing to do that because they understand that they're attacking a human being - a poor excuse for one, but one nonetheless.
Depraved motherfuckers like these know that, and take advantage.
|
|
|
|
Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Jan 30, 2024 10:59:27 GMT -5
I would have no problem with that. There was a video I saw the other day of a man who was taunted in court (I think the boy laughed) by his daughter's killer. So dad went after him and tried to dismember him in front of God and everybody. I'm not saying the courtroom is the right place, but they should've just let him finish it, there or elsewhere.
Remember Leon Gary Plauché?
|
|
