Incest charge ends in suspended sentence

Ravalli Republic ^ | November 25, 2005 | TIMOTHY MITCHELL

[ncountylee]

District Court Judge Jeffrey Langton reluctantly accepted a plea agreement Wednesday for Frederic C. Reimers, handing down a 10-year suspended sentence for one count of incest.

The 50-year-old Stevensville man was charged in December 2004 with five counts of sexual assault, two rape counts, incest and sexually abusing children.

In a plea agreement, all charges except incest were dismissed in September.

Before the judge pronounced the sentence, Reimers apologized to his family for his actions.

“I'm deeply sorry,” he said then started crying. “This should have never happened.”

Langton was not moved.

“You had inappropriate sexual contact with a child beginning at age six and continuing until her teenage years,” Langton said.

The judge referred to the sexual evaluation that recommended Reimers be designated a level 1 offender, a status characterized a low likelihood of repeating the behavior.

“I think this is a lenient sentence, not a typical case,” Langton said. “You are not a predator to anyone except your family.”

[Restorer]

“You are not a predator to anyone except your family.”

That's okay then.

[SmithL]

A 10-year suspended sentence?

Justice would require 10 years in the electric chair.

[blastdad51]

This guy should be beaten till there's nothing left but a bloody mess!!!!

[WorkingClassFilth]

“I'm deeply sorry,” he said then started crying. “This should have never happened.”

Yuh. Now prison gang rape SHOULD happen.

[VOA]

I heard a replay of a Bill O'Reilly interview with a spokesman of
The National Association To Protect Children.
It was shocking to hear him say that something like 37 states have
legal loopholes that allow sex offenders to recover custody/conact
even with the children they molest in their own family.

Even more shocking was to hear about how much opposition the organization
has encountered in trying to rectify this gap in the law.
I guess the "revolving door" is just too lucrative to the legal system
and there's a lot of DANGEROUS thought in "child protective" circles
about how to treat these cases.

http://www.protect.org/

[thoughtomator]

Or suspended from something very sensitive, at least.

[Cindy]

I have zero sympathy for the sex offender.
I bet will see his name again in the news.
Next time, I doubt he will get a suspended
sentence.

[Cindy]

Ditto.

[sarasmom]

I do not think we as a society should in any way sanction or condone "prison rape".
There should be no such thing as "prison rape", since government prisons supposedly controll every aspect of the prisoners existance.
Think about it for just a moment.
I think we need, as a society, to stand up and demand criminal punishments fit the crimes, and not expect or assume that convicted criminals will actually meet out the justice we, as a supposedly civilized society, have failed to administer.
I can understand the position, although I do not agree with it, of people who abhor the death penalty.
What I do not understand is the position of people who think that the punishment of convicted criminals should be administered by other convicted criminals.
If we want pedophiles and rapists to suffer the same degradations they inflicted on their victims, let us sentence them to that,or death, and be done with it.
No, prison should not be a comfortable "time out", it is a societal punishment, not "corrective action".
And I am all for making it a "thing" widely known to be avoided at all cost.
But I think it wrong to expect the imprisoned dregs of our society to have a finer sense of moral justice than do we, who claim to be appalled at their crimes.

[little jeremiah]

What happened to the poor girl?

This is disgusting and vile. He should face execution, not a suspended sentence.

[little jeremiah]

I agree. There should be no prison rape. Prisons are pits of ongoing crime, gang activity and drugs. IMO:

1. Prisons should be run lean and mean - prisoners should produce all they eat, wear, and sleep on.

2. Work all day should be mandatory.

3. Consult that AZ prison guy about meals and accomodations. And pink underwear.

4. No coffee, no cigarettes, no TV, no movies.

I've always wondered - how do prisoners get drugs? It must be "bad" correction officers. Weed them out.

[ncountylee]

What happened to the poor girl?

I couldn't find anything, and I agree that execution is better than a suspended sentence.

[MEG33]

The predators get a good deal because the victims don't want the humiliation of testifying in court. I think it it terrible but it happens often.

A parent is the very worst sexual pervert..They hold a position of trust and protection of the child..May he burn in hell.

[ApplegateRanch]

>“You had inappropriate sexual contact with a child beginning at age six and continuing until her teenage years,” Langton said.

“I think this is a lenient sentence, not a typical case,” Langton said. “You are not a predator to anyone except your family.”

The judge almost comes off as sounding envious.

[tonycavanagh]

re :I've always wondered - how do prisoners get drugs? It must be "bad" correction officers. Weed them out.

While not attacking all correction officers, how much are they paid, how many recruits do they get for a postion, what is the throughput of officers.

You get a lot of corruption in establishments where morale is low due to a lot of factors.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Of course you are right. There should be no such thing as prison rape or, for that matter, any other crime. The sad facts are, though, that there is crime and to a large degree we have failed to control it. I'll leave that issue and go on to a more relevant one - sentencing and justice.

The truth is that we do NOT extract justice in our system. The truth is that we have created a criminal finishing school in our prisons. The truth is that criminals quite often do NOT get what they deserve. Not that I'm too Biblical, but punishment that fits the crime is the only measure of justice I want and I'm not alone. When people are denied justice and criminals do not fear authority, bad things get worse. This freak is but one example.

In numerous examples across history and in the old West, justice given through vigilante action was absolutely necessary because civil authority was for all practical purposes nonexistent. Todays criminal code no longer sentences based on established penalties to fit the crime - today, we consider the circumstances of the criminal. Until our 'justice' system renders fitting sentences and criminals actually fear punishment more than they relish the crimes, then I'll take whatever justice is met out to them - wherever it comes from.

[darkangel82]

Suspended sentence? What the f... kind of justice is that?