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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What a convolutedsense of values!
The parents must be frantic.
Sorry to saddle y'all with this, but it is such a fine example of LIBERAL Stuck On Stupid thinking, that I had to post it.The paramount judicial duty is the PROTECTION OF THE PUBLIC. Note how this is not mentioned in Amostoys assumption that the Liberal Utopia has arrived. Thank God it hasn't.
Jeffrey Amostoy, former Chief Justice of Vermont, Howard deans "pocket rocket" who referred a question of equal treatment for same sex unions from the VT SC to the Vermont Legislature, , which resulted in Vermonts Civil Union Law, and a huge pile of campaign money from California Gays for Deans screaming run at the Dem nomination for president, (NO SURPRISE ), supports Judge Cashman:
www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2006/01/14/former_chief_justice_praises_judge_edward_cashman/
Former chief justice praises Judge Edward Cashman By Christopher Graff, Associated Press Writer | January 14, 2006
MONTPELIER, Vt. --Former Chief Justice Jeffrey Amestoy has praised Judge Edward Cashman as a "competent, caring and conservative trial judge."
Amestoy, who stepped down as chief justice in 2004, wrote in an opinion piece for Vermont newspapers that "of all the waters a judge must navigate, sentencing is by far the most challenging."
Amestoy is living in Germany while his wife, a teacher, is on sabbatical there. "From this distance it is difficult to assess the merits of Judge Cashman's decision in the Hulett case, but I doubt it would be any easier to evaluate the appropriateness of the sentence, even if I had my former vantage point.
"It is easy to determine whether a sentence is popular or unpopular, but considerably more difficult to discern whether it is `right' or `wrong,'" Amestoy wrote.
At issue is the sentence that Cashman gave Mark Hulett in a sexual abuse case. Critics say the sentence provides too little jail time to serve as adequate punishment. Cashman's emphasis was on providing treatment for Hulett so that he would not be a repeat offender.
Amestoy, a Republican who served as attorney general from 1985 to his appointment in 1997 as chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, said that he had pushed unsuccessfully as attorney general for the Legislature to enact sentencing guidelines.
"Sentencing guidelines that preserve the discretion of the court to depart from the guidelines in appropriate cases - and provide the judge with the opportunity to explain his or her reasons for departure from the guidelines - would provide sentencing fairness, preserve judicial discretion, and contribute to greater public understanding of a court's sentencing rationale," he wrote.
"In the instant case, for example, such a sentencing guideline approach would have enabled Judge Cashman to place his reasoned explanation for the sentence on the record at the time of sentencing, rather than in response to a motion for sentence reconsideration and the swirling public criticism."
Amestoy went on to say that while sentencing reforms are an important discussion, the issue at the heart of the Cashman controversy "is whether Vermonters value an independent judiciary.
"A judge who must first think of the popular response to his or her decision is not an independent judge," wrote Amestoy.
"Judicial independence is a value easily honored in the abstract but more difficult to applaud when one disagrees with a decision. But, of course, it is then that it most needs to be sustained."
...probably, the same as Sen. "Swimmer" Kennedy...
It is interesting that the liberal hypocrates who put people in power like this Judge are against a solid Judge such as Alito, and will even make up fictious articles against Alito.
But it is okay for this judge in Vermont to defy the Constitution of the United States.
The very first paragraph of the Constitution talks about providing for the common defense. This judge is against protecting children, so I don't where this guy gets his thoughts...
Maybe this Vermont judge is sympathic because he harbors thoughts of molesting children in his mind...
Maybe this Judge should be investigated for harming underage girls and boys...
They were caught by the people in the act.
Justice was dealt out on the spot. A can of gasoline was poured on the two policemen and they were set on fire, if I remember the story correctly.
Corruption in Mexico has a long history...
I guess the story a year ago was how the people learned to adapt to deal with corrupt policemen.
Well, it's a good guess, but the guy's been on the bench for about 25 years, and the GOP was in power in VT during at least some of that time. Don't know if Cashman is a Republican or a Democrat. Once they get on the bench, they aren't supposed to be either.
I heard some lawyer say that when he first got on the bench, he was known as the Hanging Judge. So I'm guessing he was a Republican then.
So he can't have contact with girls under 16, but a 16 year old girl would be O.K.? What happened to 18? All 50 states "protect" 18 year olds from alcohol but a 16 year old is not protected from a predator?
I will admit that child molesters have a tough time in prison. Other prisoners do not have a very high opinion of such people. So a child molester might have a tough time getting through a 10 year prison term.
But that should be a deterent from committing such crimes. Now he should serve about 10,000 hours in community service if let go, and do that with leg cuffs on so he has no ability to harm anyone.
I consider such people (child molesters and judges who release into society) to be a significant threat to society.
The one thing that should be the highest priority in this country is protecting children -- regardless of race, religion or whatever.
Once people have reached the age of 18 to 21, then there is more responsibility on them to beware of potential threats.
But until then, children must be protected.
If I lived in Vermont, and he was my judge, I would try to get him impeached.
I would like to find out if this judge is married and has kids, or has grandkids.
Then I would like to start a fund to buy the rapist a house NEXT DOOR to the judge's granddaughter.
Comments ? Any knowledge of the judges background ?
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