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To: SeaHawkFan
He has a constitutional right to reasonable bail. Given the circumstances, 250K is reasonable.

Are you aware that in most child molestation cases involving just one victim, bails are set much higher? I don't think $250k in this case is reasonable at all. Due to all the victims continuing to come forward, including one of his own grandsons, Sandusky is clearly established as a danger to the community as well as his own household and should be kept in jail until his trial.

26 posted on 12/08/2011 5:55:47 AM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 55 days away from outliving Marty Feldman)
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To: SamAdams76; SeaHawkFan; BunnySlippers
He has a constitutional right to reasonable bail. Given the circumstances, 250K is reasonable.

Let's see, he had to pay none of the $100,000 bail for the first 8 kids and 40 counts, which is completely outrageous.

Now he only has to cough up $250,000 for the next two victims, for who knows how many counts which are included with this arrest.

That's only $25,000 per victim (on average). Sounds not so steep to me. I would even say it's ridiculously "reasonable"...so much so that it's unreasonable.

Thanks for the tip, BunnySlippers, on the USA Today article. It wasn't difficult to find.

According to that article, a HS baseball coach in Philadelphia had a $2 million bail. He was charged with sexually assaulting one 13-year-old boy. I guess he just wasn't famous enough or had enough high-profile connections to lower his bail amount to something more "reasonable".

29 posted on 12/08/2011 8:24:26 AM PST by FamiliarFace
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