Montana judge, blasted for 1-month rape sentence, to retire: official
Source: Reuters
Tue Jan 7, 2014 1:07pm EST
(Reuters) - A Montana judge who came under fire for sentencing a former teacher to a month in prison for raping a 14-year-old student who later killed herself is set to retire at the end of this year, a court administrator said on Tuesday.
Montana District Judge G. Todd Baugh, whose current term expires at the end of 2014, has decided not to file for re-election, according to Becky Bird, district court administrator in Billings.
The administrator did not give a reason for Baugh's decision, and the judge's assistant said he declined comment.
Baugh, 72, sparked a firestorm of public outrage last year by imposing a sentence of only 30 days on former Billings high school teacher Stacey Rambold, 54, for the 2007 rape of Cherice Moralez.
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Archae
(46,298 posts)With a nice big fat pension.
Meanwhile the victim is dead, and the rapist once he gets out of jail is likely to rape again.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)mpcamb
(2,868 posts)So you can sit back and think of all the (ahem) important work you've done.
cinnabonbon
(860 posts)I'm just glad he'll be gone so he can't harm more survivors.
progressoid
(49,933 posts)Sickening.
cinnabonbon
(860 posts)get him to release his position. If it took that much just to get him into media's spotlight, I shudder to think what he's gotten away with before now.
snot
(10,496 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)Good riddance.