[SmithL]

Your tax dollars at work!

[SmithL]

The charges were later dropped because of the seriousness of Beas' injuries, according to court records.

The next best thing to actually being innocent.

[word_warrior_bob]

Bob reporting for his 2.8 million dollar beating, do your damndest.

[lovecraft]

If we would just give child molesters the death penalty we could avoid all this unpleasantness.

[gaijin]

We import them, then get molested by them. Pay to jail them, then make them RICH.

Is this historically precidented?

[edcoil]

The moral of this story is don't molest children. The sup's were wrong on this one.

[NativeSon]

on the floor of his dormitory

dormitory? maybe this was all a college prank, a bit of hazing?

[gcruse]

Hey, California! It's a good thing you have a state income tax. You can just ratchet it right up there to cover this.

[jagrmeister]

$2.8M is a lot of money- it is more money than I will pay as taxes for my entire life. Jail is not a safe place. Assaults and rape happens every day. That doesn't make it all right. But there seems little legal precedent for this judgment.

[lowbridge]

Authorities said no jail officials witnessed the assault.

Natch.

No deputies were disciplined in the matter because a one-year deadline to impose discipline had lapsed when sheriff's officials learned of the alleged mistakes.

It took them over a year to learn of the "alleged" mistakes?

[doug from upland]

I would like to be on the jury that awards all of this scumbag's found money to the parents as trustee for the molested girl.