What is wrong with judges in this country? A 5-foot-1 man can sexually abuse a 12 year old girl but some how he is too short to survive i n jail according to a judge. First of all who cares, second of all how is being too short a defense? This low life had no problem molesting a child, yet some how our legal system protects him as he is too short to survive i jail. What ever happened to protecting the children, the defenseless of our society?
A judge’s decision to sentence a 5-foot-1 man to probation instead of prison for sexually assaulting a child has angered crime victim advocates who say the punishment sends the wrong message.
But supporters of short people say it’s about time someone recognizes the unique challenges they face.
Cheyenne County District Judge Kristine Cecava issued the sentence Tuesday. She told Richard W. Thompson that his crimes deserved a long prison sentence but that he was too small to survive in a state prison.
Though he could have been sentenced to 10 years behind bars, he ended up with 10 years of probation instead. On Thursday, the state’s attorney general, Jon Bruning, promised to appeal within two weeks, calling the sentence far too lenient.
“I’m concerned about the message this sends to victims and perpetrators,” said Marla Sohl with the Nebraska Domestic Violence Sexual Assault Coalition, adding that it shows more concern is being placed on the criminal and his safety in prison than the victim.
(Yahoo News)
How can height play a part in the sentencing of a sexual predator? Obviously his height did not prevent him from committing the crime. This just plays in a long line of judges who would rather protect the rights of child molesters than their victims.
May 26th, 2006 at 07:39pm
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Some of these stories just defy sensibility. Brandon Jaffe, a 15 year old baby sitter in Central Florida was arrested for forcing two 8-year-olds to perform sex acts on him. How do we know, the parents had installed a hidden surveillance camera to video tape happens in the home.
The video captured Jaffe forcing the young children to perform oral sex on him, a police news release said.
The high school student faces 11 felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a child.
“These type of cases require us to be very meticulous in collecting evidence. We will continue to review all facets of this case until the investigation is completed,” said Flagler County Sheriff Donald W. Fleming.
(WKMG Local 6)
We can’t wait to hear his boy’s defense attorney claim that his clients civil rights were violated and his right to privacy by being video taped with out his permission. Of course this is sarcasm; however, there is most likely an attorney out there that would have no issue doing so.
The police are now worried that there may have been other previous victims. People are urged to call the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office if they have any information.
March 9th, 2006 at 09:57am
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An Indonesian woman who was kept as a virtual slave and who was also a key witness against a Saudi Arabian couple, Homaidan Al-Turki and his wife, Sarah Khonaizan. A modern day slavery case where the victim was forced cook clean and was sexually abused.
Homaidan Al-Turki and his wife, Sarah Khonaizan, face state and federal charges alleging they required the woman to cook, clean and provide child care in their home in suburban Aurora for little or no pay from 2000 to 2004.
Prosecutors also allege Al-Turki sexually abused the woman, and that she was sometimes loaned out to work for other families. Labor officials say the couple owe the woman about $62,500 in wages.
Al-Turki and Khonaizan also face Colorado charges of kidnapping, false imprisonment and extortion, and Al-Turki faces state charges of sexual assault. Their state trial is scheduled for June 12.
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
March 8th, 2006 at 12:29am
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The woman, who is part of the Disney College Program, has accused four men who are also part of the Disney College Program of gang rape. The woman states that she was walking to her apartment when she was grabbed, forced her into a Commons apartment unit and took turns raping her and forced her to perform sex acts.
The woman, who is part of the Disney College Program, told police that she was walking home to her apartment in Orange County, Fla., when four men confronted her and then grabbed her.
She said the men then forced her into a Commons apartment unit and took turns raping her and forced her to perform sex acts.
The woman told officers that she repeatedly told her attackers to stop, according to the report.
“The report is very explicit as to what occurred,” Orange County sheriff’s spokesman Jim Solomons said. “For all practical purposes, it essentially was a gang rape.”
(WKMG Local 6)
Disney officials did not comment on the case and am sure wanted no part of such publicity. All individuals involved seem to be part a Disney College work Program.
February 28th, 2006 at 02:11pm
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Yet another terrible situation in New York City with the child welfare agency. It is reported that Administration for Children’s Services caseworkers had visited the apartment where Quachon lived in November 2005 and reported it “to be in order.” Well, once again with the case of children case workers the term “in order” could not have been further from the truth.
A woman and her boyfriend were arrested Tuesday in the alleged beating death of her 4-year-old son, the latest in a recent series of child abuse fatalities that have rattled the city’s child welfare agency.
Alicia Smith, 26, faces a manslaughter charge in the death of Quachon Brown, police said. Her boyfriend, Jose Calderone, 18, was arrested on a second-degree murder charge.
Investigators believe Calderone physically abused the child, a police official said.
In less than two months from when case workers visited the home of Quachon Brown, “in order” became everything but. When police had entered the Bronx apartment they found Quachon dead with what appeared to be a fractured skull and other injuries.
Police responding to a 911 call early Monday found Quachon dead in the family’s filthy Bronx apartment. Investigators think the boy had died Sunday.
Autopsy results were pending, but police said there was preliminary evidence that the child had a fractured skull, a damaged liver and atrophied leg muscles.
(AP)
When will these stories end and children’s services take their positions more seriously? These people handle cases of the most vulnerable among us. Maybe they should start acting like it.
February 1st, 2006 at 12:06am
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