Judge Protects Child Molester with 10 Years Probation
Thursday, May 25th, 2006In order to protect the well-being of a 50 year old convicted child molester, a district judge has sentenced him to probation rather than the prison sentence he deserves:
SIDNEY, Neb. — A judge said a 5-foot-1 man convicted of sexually assaulting a child was too small to survive in prison, and gave him 10 years of probation instead.
His crimes deserved a long sentence, District Judge Kristine Cecava said, but she worried that Richard W. Thompson, 50, would be especially imperiled by prison dangers.
“You are a sex offender, and you did it to a child,” she said.
But, she said, “That doesn’t make you a hunter. You do not fit in that category.”
Thompson will be electronically monitored the first four months of his probation, and he was told to never be alone with someone under age 18 or date or live with a woman whose children were under 18. Cecava also ordered Thompson to get rid of his pornography.
He faces 30 days of jail each year of his probation unless he follows its conditions closely.
“I want control of you until I know you have integrated change into your life,” the judge told Thompson. “I truly hope that my bet on you being OK out in society is not misplaced.”
Should a District Judge really be betting on the good behavior of a convicted child molester? If she is so worried about this pervert’s well-being, can’t she sentence him to solitary confinement? Finally, what should be done to this judge if this convicted child molester attacks another child?
Personally, I don’t care if this waste of skin can survive in the prison environment or not; he should of thought about that before attacking a child. He should get the punishment he’s earned by his actions, period. Hell, even the judge agrees that he deserves a long sentence. Give it to him!
This is a textbook case that depicts why there are mandatory sentencing laws on the books.
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May 28th, 2006 at 11:49 am
Hello,
I am the reporter who broke this story. I was sitting in the courtroom when it happened. I welcome your letters to my newspaper and my work email is editor@suntelegraph.com. We have been publishing every letter we get on the sentencing and won’t you PLEASE write me.
Thank you,
Jim Headley
Editor
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