I'm sure you are aware of the story out of Vermont in which Judge Edward Cashman sentenced Mark Hulett, 34, who sexually abused a girl for four years"”from age 6 until age 10"”to only 60 days in jail for his crime. The judge said that Hulett needed help, not jail time.
Now two similar incidents have surfaced. In Wisconsin, Judge Alan Bates sentenced Gary Hoff, 44-year-old former choir instructor for the Parkview School District in Orfordville, Wisconsin, to pay a $1,000 fine and serve 30 hours of community service for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy. Click here for story
In Massachusetts, Judge Suzanne V. Delvecchio sentenced Gregory Pathiakis, 26, to a suspended 2 1/2 year jail term followed by five years probation. Pathiakis pleaded guilty to one count of rape of a child, enticement of a child under 16, five counts of possession of child pornography and one count of distribution of harmful material to a child. Judge Delvecchio was honored in 2000 as the keynote speaker at the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Bar Association's annual dinner. Story
These judges consider pity for the offender more important than justice for the victim. This kind of growing judicial activism must be opposed, and opposed now.
Unreal.
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In our system of checks and balances, what is the balance against bad judges? Seems that for some, re-election, but for most, it's a life time appointment, no?
I'm thinking there should be a change to our system in which judges have a little bit to worry about when it comes to job performance. Sorry for the offensive statement, North Texan, but remember, all judges are former lawyers.[:'(]
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RE: Anomaly or New Trend? (Child abuse)
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And yet you don't support competancy testing for teachers , Eto ?
Cant speak for other states, but in Texas you have to pass one. You can not be a certified teacher with out one. Not to mention the 30+ hours ofcontinuing education we have to complete every year. Actually you can no longer be a teachers aid with out passing a competency test.
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I think what you're seeing here is the start of a trend. It is a very, very minute minority of judges who are handing out ridiculously light sentences for child molesters, but that minority will grow. Society today is growing more and more towards a society that sees children as just another tool for the perverts of the world to please themselves.
Some might say that it is unfair to compare homosexuals to child molesters and perhaps it is. However, the methods that were used by homosexuals to grab a political foothold in this country are undeniably the same ones that are now being used by pedophiles. There will be a time, if this ol' world goes on long enough, when NAMBLA will be accepted in this country. That time isn't going to be in our lifetime (hopefully) but it will come. Already, there is a growing number of people who take pity on these perverts. I'll bet there are people you know who take pity on them. Anyone remember the Today Show segment a few months ago where they had MSNBC reporters posing as children in chatrooms and inviting men to their house? Then when the men showed up, they would be caught on camera and that evidence was televised and turned over to authorities. Katie Couric openly displayed her sympathy towards the pedophiles. I couldn't believe it. I can believe her liberal mindset, but I couldn't believe that she would openly show it on national television. I live in one of the most conservative areas in the country. A few months ago, our judge handed down a very light sentence to a man who had pled guilty to molesting a boy. The judge stated that he was sentencing the man to jail because "it was obvious he needed help," and then launched into a speech about how the man came from a good family, etc. The family of the boy were outraged, as they should've been.
People truly are starting to view pedophilia as a "sickness" rather than a crime that should be severely punished. I think the recent sentences handed down by judges are proof of that, and it should remind us all of the methods used by the gay rights movement to get their foot in the door.
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anyone found guilty of child molestation should be casterated on public t.v. with no pain medication and with a rusty spoon! if a pervert did something like that to my child, he wouldn't have to worry about the law, i would kill the son of a b*tch!
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Anomaly or New Trend? (Child abuse)
And yet you don't support competancy testing for teachers , Eto ? 
