A man found guilty of sexually assaulting a child has been given 10 years of probation by a judge who said the man was too small to survive prison.
District Judge Kristine Cecava of Cheyenne County sentenced Richard W. Thompson, 50, Tuesday on two counts of sexually assaulting a minor.
His crimes deserved a long sentence, Cecava said, but she expressed concern that the 5-foot-1 Thompson would be especially imperiled by prison dangers.
He 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.
It’s obvious, time and again, that if you pick the right crimes and the right place to commit them — you ain’t gonna suffer from it.
Umm so that means dwarves and midgets can get away with murder??????????
Sort of like the small size of children makes them less able to fend off a child molester.
WOW.. that really works..
Get rid of your porn dude..heres some monitoring for 4 months..then you can go rape some kids.
I actually agree with Bill O ‘reilly with the stuff he talks about with these molestors. They need a ton more time than they get.
It’s not a mistake going out and raping a child. I don’t care what kind of lovey duvvy crap you can say about jail.
I’m tired of hearing of democrats saying we dont need to put them in jail.
BLEH!
He will still have to answer to God, if you believe in that kind of thing.
He’s perfect!
He doesn’t need to knee too much to give a BJ and he’s small enough to make any inadequate prisoner hung *evil grin*
”It’s obvious, time and again, that if you pick the right crimes and the right place to commit them — you ain’t gonna suffer from it.”
Yeah, try the Oval Office.
Creep. – He isn’t THAT short – send him to prison and make him stay there for a very long time.
So he is to small to survive going to prison… Isn’t that more reason to put him in prison?
A white guy. Figures. It is unimaginable that a black or Hispanic rapist would not be sent to prison.
Citing O’Reilly, who bought his way out of a sexual harassment suit, was not exactly clever, Thomas Kimball.
This is what happens when you have manditory minimums for self destructive actions and no standards for deplorable, malevolent behavior towards others. The prisons are so full of addicts with no chance for parole (and all the drugs they need to stay addicted for the next go round) that he would probably get an early release even if they sent him to jail.
I guess this says a lot about the priorities of our leaders; with all of their guards and privledge, they are more worried about people having control over their own bodies than being raped or murdered themselves.
Someday, I hope they wake up and realize their children have to live in this country they are creating too. I hope it’s not too late.
“I truly hope that my bet on you being OK out in society is not misplaced.”
Pity the children if the judge’s bet is misplaced.
And I was amazed when Vermont judge Cashman gave a guy 60 days for raping a girl over a 4 year span, because “he no longer believes in punishment”.
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=4319605
Podesta you think the guy got off because he was white?
Ironically, the bio for District Judge Kristine Cecava of Cheyenne County includes “Her professional involvement has included the Nebraska Commission for the Protection of Children”.
Someone needs to add the word “Abusers” to the end of the quote.
Well, I know one part of America that is going to start filling up with short child molesters…
The guy’s 50, the guy knows he’s short, and he knows if he gets busted, he goes to jail.
Or not.
Made me think of that song, “Short people got no reason to live”.
I think was from the late 70’s, but my memories fade and I’m too lazy to Google now.
So any of you thought why pedophillia exsist worldwide, in all sections of humanity?
Could anyone explain why it evolved, did it once increase our chance of survival to mate with those who cannot have children?
In my highschool some of the toughest scrappers were the little guys.
What happens when you get the best people, put them in a group and let them exchange ideas freely? You get a master mind. When that master mind is a corporation you applaud, when that master mind is a prison you haven’t even thought about that. And this is precisely what a prison is. It is a university of criminals. There is no rehabilitation. Men who leave the penitentiary learn how to commit BETTER crimes, that is, without getting caught. That’s the knowledge they get from spending time there.
The masses don’t want to see rehabilition, they want blood. There is no difference today from the crowd mentality than there was when the same crowd cheered at the Colliseum. You want to see punishment, plain and simple. I commend the judge for taking a higher moral principal. If the short guy stays out of trouble and is no longer a danger to society then the sentence was JUST.
As a society we create child molestors. Society is to blame. We create a schism between male and female sexuality. We have created a society where men fear women and women fear men when it comes to courtship. Add to that the ideals that the media puts into our heads and you create a society where a short guy is undesirable. If he is poor and short and unactractive then that is a recipe for disaster. But, every man has sexual desires regardless of his outward appearance. Society has made sex illegal. What can a man who can’t get a good job because he is uneducated, ugly and short do to satisfy the desires that were programed into his very being from God? Society has to change. It has to start with the media. We have to put “ugly” people in hollywood. We need ugly, short men with protuding bellies as underwear models. We need runway models that have blotched skin and thick thighs showing off Prada. We need to SHOW that diversity is welcome, NOT JUST SAYING IT.
#12, Xcully, you quoted out of context. There is and was more to the story.
But Judge Cashman explained that he is more concerned that Hulett receive sex offender treatment as rehabilitation. But under Department of Corrections classification, Hulett is considered a low-risk for re-offense so he does not qualify for in-prison treatment.So the judge sentenced him to just 60 days in prison and then Hulett must complete sex treatment when he gets out or face a possible life sentence.
Judge Cashman also also revealed that he once handed down stiff sentences when he first got on the bench 25 years ago, but he no longer believes in punishment.
“I discovered it accomplishes nothing of value;it doesn’t make anything better;it costs us a lot of money; we create a lot of expectation, and we feed on anger,”Cashman explained to the people in the court.
You missed it. We had quite a discussion on this last year. No one condones what either of these men have done, but this is what differentiates us from less civilized societies. If you want to live in an “eye for an eye” justice system, then try Iran or Saudi Arabia.
People get upset when the power of the state steps on their toes, but not when other’s get the short end of the stick. Sure, pedophiles should be incarcerated, but also rehabilitated. If the state won’t help rehabilitate them then the state is not fulfilling its requirement.
Oh, BTW, after the State promised to give Hulett treatment the Judge upped the sentence to 3 to 10 years. Where he could have gotten life before, the maximum he can get now is 10 years. If he doesn’t get treatment and is released in ten years, he would be an angry pedophile with little to lose whereas under probation for life the state would still have had control over him. So which scenario had the better long term benefits for society? Sometimes ya just gotta make a stink to get people’s attention.
Riiiiight, Fusion. And I suppose, us being a more civilized society, it is far more appropriate to use our prison space for environmental criminals — like the property owner sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for moving dirt from one end of his property to fill in a swamp at the other end.
#20. “The individual is responsible for his actions.”
Jim, there is no “individual”. SOCIETY creates the individual. Your parents start the process from day one, but the STATE takes over once you enter kindergarten. THEREFORE, PARENTS and the STATE are RESPONSIBLE for his actions. You still are not an individual, Jim. You are just a parrot who recites what you have been programmed to. You become a REAL individual when you can come to conclusions by yourself. But that takes intelligence that was robbed from you by the State, which serves to purposes: to keep the State in order and to CONTROL you. Rise above the State and think out of the box. Most people will go against you but at least you are doing your own thinking.
No, David you are wrong, very very wrong. You are correct in that women should fear you when they date you because you have this sick sense of responsibility. (none, the devil made me do it.)
There is a ton of literature and scientific experiments that back me up. (eg See Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate; blows away the myth of the blank slate – tablua rosa – the ghost in the machine, and the nobel savage therories of the mind.) At best society influences 35% of a person’s development.
In your theory no one is responsible for their actions and can claim that Society made me do it, thus adbicating any responsibility.
Unfortunately, you are writing as a rabid conspirisist so you are a lost cause. Too bad, I was hoping you would think out of the box.
Well, he’s already short, so whack off his oppsytoopsie and make him even shorter and turn him loose in the forest so Bigfoot can bugger him until the snow flies.
I am a social worker who has been doing clinical work since I got my MSW in 1972. Having worked with many survivors of childhood sexual abuse I have come to believe that the only deteriant would be if the perpetrator was castrated. I understand that this will never be proposed as a law much less enacted, but I believe that after this happens a few times the incidence will dramaticly decrease.
If you can not do the time,
don’t do the crime.
Place is butt in prison!
Even on an aging thread, I must say that David is wrong, lest anyone be misled. About 80 percent of prison inmates become recidivists. Inmates may learn how to commit more crimes while there, but their ability to get away with the criminal lifestyle does not improve. There are good arguments against substantial terms for minor offenses, but David’s isn’t one of them.
Oops! My bad. I see the prison was in Australia.
Sill, what I say about Americans’ evil streak is true.
It’s terrible that this guy has these feelings and it is even more terrible that he would damage a young child by acting upon these feelings. The guy is a “cancer” on a civilized society and as with all cancers you must take extreme measure to control the disease thus I am in complete support of castration to remove the chemical motivation of his to carry out these selfish crimes. Second offense is life imprisonment.
Thanks gregallen. In have been saying all along those folks who are so upset about abu grabi need to spend a weekend in the local pokey.