One thought that I had when I heard about this case is that fairly often, the law seems to be really ****ing lenient on REAL sexual predators. To back this up, I went searching for news stories.
http://www.newsleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061219/NEWS01/612190305/1002
A 62-year-old Lyndhurst man averted a jury trial in Augusta County Circuit Court on Monday morning after pleading guilty to taking indecent liberties with three girls in March 2005 and photographing them in the nude.
Eugene Haymes of 2322 Lyndhurst Road agreed to a 10-year prison sentence in a plea deal with the Augusta County prosecutor's office.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailnational.asp?fileid=20061220.G08&irec=7
Aussie pedophile gets four years
MATARAM, West Nusa Tenggara: The Mataram District Court on Tuesday sentenced Australian citizen Donald John Storen to four years in prison for sexually abusing four boys on the island of Lombok.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/14/europe/EU_GEN_Germany_Pedophile.php
DRESDEN, Germany: A German man who abducted and held a 13-year-old girl for five weeks, repeatedly sexually abusing her and threatening to kill her, was sentenced Thursday to the maximum possible 15 years in prison.
Thats the maximum sentence??? ****ing kidnap and repeated sexual abuse of a 13 year old girl??? And he threatened to kill her, no less. 15 years!! Just five more years than what our friend got for consensual oral sex.
http://www.wiscnews.com/pdr/news/111115
MONTELLO Former Baraboo High School music teacher Jeffrey Roy was sentenced to serve two-and-a-half years in prison Wednesday for having sex with a 14-year-old rural Montello boy in 2003.
Roy, 50, of Sauk City, also will be placed on seven years of extended supervision following his incarceration.
C'mon!! Two and a half years. He had sex with a 14 year old!!!
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b8_3ferairradec08,0,6046664.story
Judge to pedophile: You destroyed 2 girls
86 years. Thats more like it. I posted that one so we wouldn't completely lose faith in the system.
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazet....html?id=a405beb4-a2f8-4cb9-8a76-fc5307a19c5e
Serial child molester jailed for eight years
Published: Saturday, December 16, 2006
Serial pedophile Francois Daragon was sentenced in Longueuil yesterday to eight years in prison after having pleaded guilty to 18 charges, including sexually assault, exhibitionism and producing pornography.
Insanely lenient.
http://www.nhregister.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17578746&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=590581&rfi=6
Madison man gets 12 years in kid rape
http://www.macombdaily.com/stories/120306/loc_pedo001.shtml
Sterling Heights man could be first prosecuted under new pedophile law
But under the new changes in the criminal sexual conduct laws that took effect at the end of August, he may face a mandatory 25 years in prison if convicted on the first-degree charge.
Good on Michigan. Considering the completely ridiculous sentences I've uncovered so far, other states should follow suit, and other countries too.
The worst case I found was that one in Germany. The man kidnapped her. A 13 year old girl. He repeatidly sexually abused her. He threatened to kill her. For five weeks. MAXIMUM sentence he can get - 15 years. What. The. ****.