Something about this...just makes me sick

[Horse with no Name]

There are simply no words.


Paris teen sentenced to 100 years in prison

http://theparisnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=43a043dcf712f1a2
>>>snip
Aaron Hart, 18, of 1055 22nd N.E. St., a special education student throughout his years in school, pleaded guilty Wednesday to the Sept. 28, 2008, sexual assault of a young boy who lived nearby.

>>>>>snip
The jury deliberated about three hours Wednesday before coming back with a recommendation of 30 years in prison for three counts of sexual assault of a child and five years in prison for each of two counts of indecency with a child.

Clifford had the discretion of ordering the sentences for the 2008 Paris High School graduate to be served concurrently or consecutively.

>>>snip

“I stacked them. The kid is of diminished intellect and doesn’t need to be in prison, but there wasn’t any place to put him. I just couldn’t take a chance running him concurrently with a 30-year sentence and him being back out in the community in 15 years,” Clifford told The Paris News.

>>>snip
The Lamar County Sheriff’s Office is investigating reports that the defendant himself was sexually assaulted in the county jail while awaiting trial.

[Skittles]

1. I've read that child/teenage sex offenders can be rehabilitated

100 years seems very bad

[Horse with no Name]

2. In NO way do I want to diminish what he did

because it WAS awful. However, it appeared to be a one-time thing and he obviously has diminished mental capacity.
Yes, he needs to be punished. But 100 years? Serial rapists don't get that.:(

[Confusious]

11. Don't know where you read that

Every psychology article I've read said nothing could be done. Or at least very little. Takes a lot of effort on the part of the person, and only 10% will make or can keep that.

[babylonsister]

3. I'm sick, too. He doesn't deserve to be in prison, but there's no where

else to put him? Gawd, that's horrific.

[Horse with no Name]

6. Yet look at this (same judge)

This WHITE kid killed a Black Grandmother and her 3 year old grandson while DWI. He spent 22 days in prison and then was given shock probation.

http://www.theparisnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=72e1b30a67381073

>>>snip
Lamar County Sheriff B.J. McCoy denied his office has shown any favoritism to Posey, whose mother is McCoy’s cousin. McCoy’s mother and Shirley Posey’s mother were sisters.

[notesdev]

10. What else are we supposed to do with a child rapist?

And let's not mince words, 'diminished capacity' or not, this guy raped a kid. A person like that can't be left free to rape another, ESPECIALLY if he hasn't the capacity to understand that what he did was wrong.

[Hannah Bell]

12. um, you don't know that he's a child rapist. the article doesn't say he raped

anyone. it's impossible to tell what happened from the article. he had his pants down, that's all that's clear.

[dysfunctional press]

4. sometimes, the world is not a pretty place...

the kid "of diminished intellect" who "himself was sexually assaulted in the county jail while awaiting trial" will be passed around a french prison until he dies/is killed/commits suicide.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

7. Paris, Texas not France.

[dysfunctional press]

9. oops...that's even worse for him- and i had pictured him enjoying a breakfast croissant every day.

now he doesn't even have that to look forward to.

[Horse with no Name]

13. No. He doesn't have ANYTHING to look forward to

Texas prisons for a mentally unfit young man who molested a kid will end up being a death sentence. There is NO justice here.
Pure vengeance.

[cliffordu]

5. There's no way it's worth a hundred years. Murderers get out in 8, fer crissakes.

And, by the way, THIS clifford had nothing to do with it.

[JeffR]

8. We've lost the capacity to distinguish between bad people & sick people.

Sic transit gloria America.

"... there wasn't any place to put him..." Ain't that America?