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I just checked the Florida statutes. Exactly this situation is covered, and it is a first degree felony with a maximum of 30 years. So he just got the maximum.

Using or threatening with a deadly weapon, or using injurious physical force, is a life sentence in a rape.

Being over 18 and damaging the reproductive organs of a girl uner 12 during a rape is a capital offense.

Thanks for the additional comments and information.

Twelve to seventeen years for you and I is not twelve to seventeen years for a prison inmate. Every day seems like a week when you can’t go about your life and do what you want.

This guy was forty years old. We know that he committed one rape under the color of authority. As some have said, he may have committed more. There’s also the likelihood that he hadn’t.

This guy’s wife thought so much of him that she stood up for him. He was evidently decent to her.

People sometimes do things in life without thinking of the awful impact those actions will have on others. If he had killed this woman, I would have advocated for the death penalty, and to have it carried out in a timely manner.

In this instance, I still think twelve to seventeen years without possibility of early parole, should suffice.

This guy is not an example of a person who has been a problem his whole life, and thus not likely to be able to exist outside prison without causing problems in the future. He evidently was able to for forty years. Then he royally screwed up.

I think thirty years is overkill in this instance, but I have stated that he may only serve around twenty years. That is not that far out of line if true.

I just checked the Florida statutes.

Exactly this situation is covered, and it is a first degree felony with a maximum of 30 years. So he just got the maximum.

He just got the maximum? No, he got the maximum allowable under the law. That can't be accurately described as, "...he just got the maxium."

Most criminals don't get the maximum allowable under the law unless there are additional factors involved. There must have been some features of this crime that caused the judge to sentence this person to the maximum. If not, then I would question why the convict wasn't sentenced somewhere between the min and the max.

Using or threatening with a deadly weapon, or using injurious physical force, is a life sentence in a rape.

In one of my reply workups I almost addressed the physical injury aspect. If this guy did cause elevated internal trauma, then I would certainly sign on to a severe sentence, possibly even the death penalty.

Being over 18 and damaging the reproductive organs of a girl uner 12 during a rape is a capital offense.

I don't have a problem with that. Well, strike that. I would have a problem, because the death penalty isn't being implemented in a methodical and timely fashion. We have something like 700 people on death row in my state. Light em up!