[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.

[Shooter1001]

"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."

It seems to me the focus is misplaced on the perpetrator. The well-being of the criminal should not be the issue. Society needs to protect itself especially in these cases where recidivism borders on certainty. Prison? OK. Castration? Even better! Death penalty? Fine with me! Just remove him/her from society until he/she is no longer a threat to another child.