I get not wanting the victim to have to testify at that age, but how does a plea offer of less than a month in jail even get made for something like this?
this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2024
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Dude! They took away his weekends! That is harsh!
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Now he'll have to do his raping during the week. The poor man!
I don't know the details, maybe those are sealed. I don't know anything and I'm not a lawyer. The defendant may have a legal advantage in that no victim will testify (victim is a child, we don't force children to testify).
It's fug ing absurd ill give you that
Because he's a cop. It's surprising he was even charged for it.
I read that headline as 10 weeks in jail, and thought "that's not enough time I should reread that" turns out I was wrong but the real headline was worse.
eh?! the weekends? like he's grounded? Can he choose which one, otherwise that could overlap with his plans he made for his weekends and that would be a bit harsh!
Disgusting piece of shit and sentence.
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“I’m not entirely satisfied with the sentence … but ultimately as a prosecutor I have to weigh things like the impact of actually having to testify on the victim of this crime,” said Ontario County Assistant District Attorney Kelly Wolford. “And she’s a child, and she was going to have to face her accuser in the courtroom. And when I was given the opportunity to consider whether or not we’d take a guilty plea – absolutely, all day, in a circumstance like this.”
**** edit this is Canada shit, happened in Canada, apologies, I think it's relevant to the us *****
It's really rough. The u.s. judicial system is not prepared to deal with this.
Ontario is in Canada.
In fairness, when I saw Rochester I immediately assumed the non-city in the UK.
Edit: Wait what, it talks about Bristol, also in the UK, but apparently Ontario is also a county in the state of NY (which is again named after a UK city). So you were right, this is 'merica.
Yeah I thought the UK too, but realised you'd need pretty bad lead poisoning to spell "Shaun" or "Sean" as "Shawn" so that makes more sense 😂
Shit I completely forgot this was a Canada story. That's a whole ass other country! Fuck me for my nationalist centrism. Oh and **** jjjjjjjjjjjj
Rochester NY, it's a US story.
Canada has a very serious violence against women problem. And as it turns out a horrific sentencing problem
It's a US story
Thanks friend, always appreciate a bit of solidarity in the face of stupid
He's a cop so he can never be wrong but we'll give you a token to shut you up.
And this is why I will never trust the police. Not here. Not in any other place I have lived. Why does this monster get to keep on living and the rest of us suffer his abuse? Sure, keep on making "task forces" to bring the gun violence down in the city, but we are still going to rape your children. Fuck the entire force and "justice" system for not putting this guy behind bars. I seriously doubt Monroe county will punish him either.
Or the courts, who enable them. The entire ~~Justice~~ Punishment Industrial Complex deserves to be torn down and rebuilt from the ground up, complete with a well funded independent ethics and monitoring system.
it's funny seeing everyone in the thread outing themselves as not reading the article. guys the location is the very first part of the article body.
The UK has a pedophile king. Ofc they're going to be extremely lenient with sexual assault of a minor.
this happened in Bristol NY, USA
not in Canada? I don't know what to believe anymore
Ontario County is a county in the U.S. State of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 112,458.[1] The county seat is Canandaigua.[2] The county is part of the Finger Lakes region of the state.
Ontario County is part of the Rochester, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area.
In 2006, Progressive Farmer rated Ontario County as the "Best Place to Live" in the U.S., for its "great schools, low crime, excellent health care" and its proximity to Rochester.
Is Charles a nonce? We all know Andrew is, but Charles?