Posted on 01/05/2006 5:23:48 PM PST by wagglebee
BURLINGTON, January 5, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - According to a Vermont judge, serious crime should not be subject to punishment. “The one message I want to get through is that anger doesn't solve anything. It just corrodes your soul.” So said Judge Edward Cashman who then gave a 60-day jail sentence to a man who raped a little girl repeatedly for four years starting when the girl – the child of a friend - was six and ending when she was ten.
Mark Hulett, 34, pleaded guilty in District Court in Burlington to two counts of aggravated sexual assault and one charge of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child, all felonies. The law allowed for him to face up to life in prison on the charges, but the judge decided that he should be let go after 60 days, since the state Corrections Department would not offer Hulett sex-offender counseling until after his release.
Only if Hulett fails to obtain counseling or otherwise follow instructions once he is freed
will he face the full sentence.
The state prosecutors, along with the girl’s family were seeking the maximum sentence of 8 to 20 years in a federal prison.
“Punishment is a valid purpose,” Chittenden Deputy Prosecutor Nicole Andreson argued. “This is not only about Mr. Hulett. To sentence him to any less demeans the level of trauma he has caused. To sentence him to any less will send a disturbing message of tolerance to the community.”
“The state recognizes that the court may not agree or subscribe to that method of sentencing but the state does. The state thinks that it is a very important factor for the court to consider,” Andreson added.
After ruling that the self-confessed child rapist should be back in the community, Cashman told the family, “This is not a situation where I'm doing this for the family”
“My heart goes out to this family, and I would hate to be in the situation this family is. But there's other families out there, and there's other people who could be victimized, and I'm trying to take the long view,” he said.
Cashman added that a lengthy prison term “will accomplish nothing but to harden this fellow.”
The girl’s mother, however, thought that keeping her child’s rapist off the streets would accomplish something. “Mark should be taken off the street so it is not possible for her to cross his path. She will see Mark enough in her mind,” she said.
Contacts:
Vermont Governor Jim Douglas
109 State Street, Pavilion
Montpelier, VT 05609-0101
Phone: 802 828-3333
(toll-free in VT only: 800 649-6825)
Fax: 802 828-3339
Online communications form at http://www.vermont.gov/governor/contact.html
Vermont Judicial Conduct Board
http://www.vermontjudiciary.org/Committes/boards/j...
Chairman Christopher Davis
802-864-0217
If I onnnnnnnnnnly had the money, I'd be moving every lowlife into his neighborhood.
Makes you wonder what the judge does in his spare time.
Precisely why decent people need to get their children out of Vermont.
Do you think they will care one bit about what folks from California and New York think? The Vermonters out there are the ones who really need to speak out.
This bears repeating often!
Do you think they will care one bit about what folks from California and New York think?
Frankly, I doubt the legal elite really cares what Vermonters think either. But that's no reason to do nothing. This is a national issue. As we've seen with Joseph Duncan and others, a freed child-rapist in Vermont will likely end up in New York, California, Minnesota....
Writing letters and making phone calls may or may not be effective, but it beats doing nothing.
They did and if it were up to me, this judge would get a proper trial and hanging along with the perp because he raped the public.
SOB needs to go on a shark hunt.
All I can guess is that Ben & Gerry must have spiked that ice cream with some really bad acid.
He wouldn't know...but, he certainly should, and with the same frequency that little girl had to endure it.
This is beyond disgusting.>>
to say the least..
they should hang the judge and the rapist by the you know whats.
The longer I think about this, the sicker I become. The leftists want to convince us that it "takes a village" to care for children, and if this is an indication of how they view that responsibility, then we are truly engaged in a life and death struggle for the soul of all mankind.
A six year old girl is a BABY!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe the judge and the defendent 'socialize' with each other and are members of the same club.
The only "club" I can think of is NAMBLA, but since it's a little girl, I have no idea.
I have found secure/anonomous links to actually sites advertising sex vids with girls as young a two years of age.
Believe me there are some sick puppies in this world and they are very well financed.
I'd normally agree, but it is Vermont. They'd probably find him guilty. This is an interesting world we live in today.
File a complaint against a court or a judge?
January 7, 2006 - The Judicial Conduct Board is responsible for reviewing and investigating all complaints of misconduct or disability by Vermont’s judicial officers. Contact the chair:
Christopher Davis, Esq. Langrock, Sperry & Wool 275 College Street P.O. Box 721 Burlington, VT 05402-0721
Is this Hillary's village justice system? Hey lets ban guns and harass gun owners instead, see Hill baby's op-ed in the NYPost.
"time to get out the tar, feathers and run the judge out of town on a rail"----
This reminds me that I would like to know more about the good old days of tarrin' and featherin', and this idiot savant Judge richly deserves it. I am going to research this on Google. I kinda doubt it was frontier justice meted out to many Judges, though.
(I call him an idiot savant because this is one of the new
guises for Leftwing Idealism: a knowing pretense and playing DUMB DUMB DUMB that wanting a thing to be something can make it so, and there is no real evil in the world.)
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