Baby Rape Sentence "Unduly Lenient" - UK news, to our shame [View All]

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"Scotland's most senior legal officer has asked for a report into whether a five-year prison sentence given to a man who raped an 13-month-old baby was "unduly lenient".

Lord Advocate Colin Boyd QC's move follows anger at the sentence given to father-of-three James Taylor, who took pictures of himself raping the baby. Children's charities said they had expected Taylor to be jailed for life...

Taylor, a construction industry welder, was told by judge Lord Reed he would have been jailed for much longer, if it had not been for a psychologist's report assessing there was only a low risk of him reoffending...

Lord Reed said..."I have a report from one of Scotland's leading forensic psychologists, who formed the view that your viewing of pornography compromised your moral boundaries." "

Full article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3078216.stm

Right.......so this perfectly moral guy decided to view and make an extensive collection of online child porn (which in itself creates demand for the abuse and photographing of children being abused).

However, the poor bloke so so affected by looking at this porn that it warped his sense of morality and made him think it was OK to film himself raping a 13 month old baby.

Surely this man is as much a victim as the child? Shouldn't we just put him on probation and help him get over the trauma of being forced to abuse children?

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In case you can't tell, I'm being sarcastic. This crime sickens me, and a 5 year sentence (out in 3 with good behaviour) sickens me almost as much - he'd have got more jail time for embezzling money.

Still, given that his picture is all over the news websites, I don't suppose he'll last long in jail.........but that's not the point.

I hope that the legal profession sees sense and that his sentence is indeed increased to life - there are some first offences which don't merit leniency.