[DesignerChick]

Cute, but sadly true.

Thats exactly the message the judge has sent the rapists of society: "Don't just commit one rape....commit a series of rapes over a period of time, preferable on the same person, and the judge won't see you as a criminal but 'sick' person-- so instead of jail time you'll get therapy".

Great message Judge.

Is there a sickness of habitual speeding with the same car for four years? I could use that to great effect. I'm sick you see.

BTW- I don't believe compulsion is a defense for knowing the difference between Right and Wrong. He chose not to seek help and instead commit a crime. For FOUR YEARS.

I have zero sympathy for this scumbag.

[TinkersDam]

I can understand the outrage over this decision but I hope that when tempers cool a bit someone will consider the points that the judge made:

Lengthy incarcerations are expensive and don't seem particularly effective at altering behaviors anyway.

Letting someone out of prison after a long term of incarceration and making him register as a sex offender destroys any chance of his obtaining a decent job and being too busy working to re-offend; it only gives him a sentence of poverty, idleness, frustration, alcoholism, community scorn and other things not likely to lead to law abiding behavior.

I don't know if this defendant will re-offend or not. I think the sentence is a bit too lenient, but it will be an interesting experiment. Certainly the judge is correct in his statement that punishment does not seem to work.