'He's still out there:' Another rape case ends in probation over victim's objections

[KamaAina]

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/08/hes_still_out_there_another_se.html

In sentencing notes, Franklin-Hampshire Counties Juvenile Court Judge Judith Phillips described the assault as a "heavy burden." In a victim impact statement, Sarah went further, describing nine years of childhood lost, a family sundered, suicidal thoughts, frequent nightmares and omnipresent fear.

"I suffered from the abuse for at least nine years of what should have been a normal life for me," Sarah, who is now 16, wrote. "Do not only give him two years when it's not close to equivalent to how many years of my childhood was stolen from me."

But Ryan Crochetiere, 19, who pleaded guilty to serially sexually assaulting Sarah for a year when he was 14 and she was 11, will not get two years. He will spend no time in a jail cell, and have a chance to waive his sex offender registration, after Phillips accepted his plea deal for four years of probation....

Crochetiere's plea was accepted one day after former East Longmeadow High School star athlete David Becker was sentenced to two years of probation for sexually assaulting two unconscious classmates. That sentence sparked outrage across the country, and led to a petition for the removal of the judge in Becker's case.

[yeoman6987]

1. Keep this up and they will bring in mandatory sentencing

Then judges will not have any say.

[smirkymonkey]

2. Maybe that is what is needed.

This bullshit has been going on for too long.