[Dr. Franklin]

And he is dead now. He certainly won’t be doing that anymore.

If the DA wants to send a message, he/she will drop the case. Child molesters should be in fear of an extreme penalty. There was a case I remember that a father caught a man molesting his young daughter and he killed him with his bare hands. All charges were dropped. This woman couldn't do that, but she did have a gun and used it.

[frog in a pot]

If the DA wants to send a message, he/she will drop the case.

I.e., that would have value in the neighborhood. What an unfortunate footnote. OTOH, it is just an extreme form of a shotgun marriage.