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Title: Child sex offender "too short for prison" gets probation
Post by: engineer151515 on May 25, 2006, 11:18:25 AM
Unbelievable.  


http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12969163/?GT1=8199

Judge rules sex offender is too short for prison
5-foot-1 man gets 10 years probation for sexual assault of a child
 
Updated: 7:14 a.m. CT May 25, 2006
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."
Title: Child sex offender "too short for prison" gets probation
Post by: USP45usp on May 25, 2006, 02:53:30 PM
I thought they had things called solitary confinement, that is where this perv. should be held for his 10 years in prison if the bleeding hearts are so afraid that what he did to a child will be done to him in prison (which he deserves IMNSHO).

Wayne
Title: Child sex offender "too short for prison" gets probation
Post by: grampster on May 25, 2006, 04:37:08 PM
I think when a judge hands out a sentence where she is "betting" on his behavior change, if he doesn't change, she ought to serve his time and he ought to be shot.
Title: Child sex offender "too short for prison" gets probation
Post by: cosine on May 25, 2006, 07:18:44 PM
Okay, being short lets you out of prison for a heinous crime? What the ***?
Title: Child sex offender "too short for prison" gets probation
Post by: wmenorr67 on May 26, 2006, 02:14:52 AM
He isn't too short to molest children.  Man I can see it now.  Are they going to start putting signs up in prisons and jails like you see at carnival rides stating you must be this tall before being sentenced to this place.  Where in the hell do these judges get off handing down sentences like this.  The people of Nebraska need to tar and feather this bleeding heart.  Should ask this judge if a 5' 1" man did that to her child if the sentence would be the same.  Bet it would be more along the lines, "Too bad I cannot publicly castrate you so I am sending you to prison for a long, long time."
Title: Child sex offender "too short for prison" gets probation
Post by: cordex on May 26, 2006, 06:37:31 AM
"Child molester too short for wood-chipper gets blender"

That was in poor taste, wasn't it?
Title: Child sex offender "too short for prison" gets probation
Post by: Tallpine on May 26, 2006, 08:43:57 AM
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But, she said, "That doesn't make you a hunter. You do not fit in that category."
Yeah, right .... Sad  since he is 50 years old, he probably has a long history of this sort of thing but this just happens to be the first time he got caught.

I have personal experience with these sort of people (my FIL) so I know that they never change.  Years later, we found out that he had been doing it since he was a teenager.
Title: Child sex offender "too short for prison" gets probation
Post by: AJ Dual on May 26, 2006, 12:06:04 PM
At least the judge didn't decide to use his short stature to place him in Juvenile Hall...
Title: Child sex offender "too short for prison" gets probation
Post by: Strings on May 26, 2006, 12:46:31 PM
>"Child molester too short for wood-chipper gets blender"

That was in poor taste, wasn't it?<

Not at all: not severe enough...

 Can't WAIT to hear what the BACA PR guy has to say about this one...
Title: Child sex offender "too short for prison" gets probation
Post by: Guest on May 26, 2006, 05:53:56 PM
Isn't that why they invented the RACK???  stretch that little child molesting *expletive deleted*er until he is PLENTY tall to go to "big peoples" prison.....