Posted on 01/14/2006 9:46:03 AM PST by cgk
BURLINGTON, Vt. --The young girl who was the victim in a child sex abuse case in which the perpetrator got a minimum sentence of 60 days also was abused by a second man, authorities have alleged.
That revelation is the latest twist in a controversy surrounding Judge Edward Cashman's sentencing of Mark Hulett. Hulett, 34, of Williston, had pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting the girl from the age of 6 to when she was 10.
Derek Kimball, 33, of Hinesburg, whom authorities describe as a friend of Hulett's, was arrested in October and is charged with sexual assault on a victim less than 10 years of age, and lewd and lascivious conduct with a child. He was later released on $25,000 bond and a series of conditions, including that he not contact the victim or any girls under the age of 16.
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Court papers in Kimball's case say the girl told investigators that both Kimball and Hulett had sexually assaulted her in a number of separate incidents.
Detectives met with Kimball at his job at the Chittenden Solid Waste District in South Burlington on Oct. 7, according to court papers. During the interview, Kimball acknowledged the abuse and was arrested, according to the detectives' accounts in the court affidavit.
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Cashman, what an interesting name.
Child-molesting tag team. Does anyone wonder that these monsters actively prey on vulnerable children?
Get a rope, get a rope
We're sick and tired of your liberal views
What's politically correct?
Come judgement day, I'll be trying the noose
And slipping it around your neck
Can't you hear me shout?
There are a lot of people like me about
But for you there's just no hope
Get a rope, get a rope
Today's Vermont, is not the Vermont of Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye.
It has been overrun by New York and Massachusetts leftist communist liberals.
To these NOUVAUX Vermonter's, rapist's are to be revered.
Then throw the parents in jail for child endangerment. This gets screwier and screwier.
It is sick, and seems to be getting worse.
Wonder of O'Reilly has heard about the guy who was arrested for sodomizing and strangling a dog in Vermont recently. Boycott Vermont? I don't buy maple syrup or Ben and Jerry's to start with. What's left? (I live on the NH/Vermont border, and already avoid Vermont like the plague.)
That's Vermont justice for you...liberals don't want to offend anyone. Except conservatives and Christians, of course.
I was wondering the same thing. How could this go on for years? As terrible as it would be, I understand one incident. But you'd think that the child would show physical evidence of trauma. Don't parents still bathe little kids? Or at least take a look at what's going on in the bath? How did this child continue to be molested over time without physical issues that would draw the parents' atention?
I don't know the answer to that. Hoever, it's this kind of situation that drove me to write my novel, THE JUSTICE COOPERATIVE (see my tag line). I'm not advocating that kind of "justice." I wrote the novel as a cautionary tale. If the official justice system fails to deliver justice (and this case is a prime example of the failure of the justice system), we're going to see people "imposing their own justice." Maybe something like the Justice Cooperative will even come into existence. I'm not keen on the idea but it would be better than living with the current failure of the justice system.
The progressives in the State Legislature will defend Cashman tooth and nail. (I like how the media went digging for a "Jeffords-style Republican" for this quote.) Many newspapers are defending Cashman, as well; including the loathsome Rutland (Baghdad) Herald. On a side note: I have been in the offices of the Rutland Herald: full of conservative-bashing/man-hating women that closely resemble Eleanor Clift and Helen Thomas. Brrrrrr!
Would any member of such an organization be stupid enough to enroll under his real name?
We are in the very days when evil is considered good and good is considered evil, cgk. It is very sad.
The victim was assaulted by the Judge.
I heard a little bit about this on a best of Tony Snow show this morning. Apparently mom's and dad's elevators don't go all the way to top floor. Real Parents of the Year material by Vermont standards. That doesn't lessen what this thing did to the girl, however, nor does it lessen the travesty of justice perpetrated by Cashman, the left's new darling jurist.
But why else would the guy be sympathetic? What kind of a person disregards the safety of children?
That is true in theory. But everyone knows what cgk means and I suspect you do also.
Letting these freaks out with light terms or no terms or even after they have served their terms when they commit these crimes over and again is not protecting the public, is it?
Seems to me that membership in NAMBLA would a resume enhancer in Vermont, something to boast about. I'm judging that on the way the entire government and media esstablishment in Vermont are circling the wagons around Cashman. I'll bet Teddy Kennedy and the NYT would have less of a problem with a SC nominee being a NAMBLA member than they did with Sam Alito's membership in CAP.
Yes I did. What I was thinking in terms of "retribution", was that the law frowns up those who seek personal retribution, i.e. taking the law into one's own hands. I apologize for not being more clear.
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