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The Factor just received this statement from Noah Hoffenberg, the editorial page editor of the Bennington (VT) Banner: The right-wing blowhard Bill O'Reilly has called us again for the second time in so many weeks, asking the Banner to be on one of his shows. He wants us on the Factster show to talk about our editorial from Friday, which clearly states how Judge Edward Cashman's decision to incarcerate a sex offender for a mere 60 days was nothing more than a springboard for the far right to rant about the liberal crazies in Vermont. O'Reilly and his ilk are...

Statement from the Bennington Banner The Factor just received this statement from Noah Hoffenberg, the editorial page editor of the Bennington (VT) Banner: The right-wing blowhard Bill O'Reilly has called us again for the second time in so many weeks, asking the Banner to be on one of his shows. He wants us on the Factster show to talk about our editorial from Friday, which clearly states how Judge Edward Cashman's decision to incarcerate a sex offender for a mere 60 days was nothing more than a springboard for the far right to rant about the liberal crazies in Vermont....

Breaking on Fox - Cashman rethinks, sentences 8-10 years (during Presidential press conference)

BURLINGTON, Vt. Jan 26, 2006 — A judge who was widely vilified for giving a child molester a 60-day jail term imposed a new sentence Thursday, increasing the man's prison time to three to 10 years. Judge Edward Cashman said he felt he could now impose the longer sentence because the state had agreed to provide treatment to the man while he is behind bars. The state had initially said such treatment would not come until after the man served his time. Mark Hulett, 34, pleaded guilty to charges that he had sexual contact with a girl during a four-year...

Second man charged with abusing Hulett's victim January 14, 2006 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...

Judge Edward Cashman Vermont's governor says more than 20,000 e-mails, phone calls and letters have poured into his office in response to a state judge's 60-day sentence for a child rapist who admitted abusing a young girl over a period of four years. The "overwhelming majority" condemn District Court Judge Edward Cashman's light sentence for 34-year-old Mark Hulett, said Jason Gibbs, spokesman for Gov. Jim Douglas, in an interview with WorldNetDaily. "The outrage that the vast majority of Vermonters have here is shared by fellow countrymen," said Gibbs, noting the many protests coming from across the nation. The spokesman...

This is what comes up when you go to the State of Vermont's sex offender website. Although it appears that it probably meets the letter of the law, it comes nowhere near what the spirit of the law instructed the various states to do. Is it any wonder that a state so hostile to parents trying to protect their children from the worst of society could produce a Judge Edward Cashman? This is exactly the type of hostility the framers of the Wetterling and Megan Laws were trying to stop. Notice how smug and Democrat sounding the preamble is. "Access...

Burlington, Vermont -- January 4, 2005 There was outrage Wednesday when a Vermont judge handed out a 60-day jail sentence to a man who raped a little girl many,many times over a four-year span starting when she was seven. The judge said he no longer believes in punishment and is more concerned about rehabilitation. Prosecutors argued that confessed child-rapist Mark Hulett, 34, of Williston deserved at least eight years behind bars for repeatedly raping a littler girl countless times starting when she was seven. But Judge Edward Cashman disagreed explaining that he no longer believes that punishment works. "The one...

I couldn't post directly due to a copyright issue, but you'll find the article at the Burlington Free Press website (burlingtonfreepress.com) Article number is 73231662682813 This is outrageous...outrageous...

Claiming he no longer believes in punishment, a Vermont judge issued a 60-day sentence to a man who confessed to repeatedly raping a girl over a four-year period, beginning when she was 7 years old. Judge Edward Cashman disagreed with prosecutors who thought Mark Hulett, 34, of Williston, Vt., deserved eight to 20 years in prison, reported WCAX-TV in Burlington, Vt. Cashman said he's more concerned now about rehabilitation. "The one message I want to get through is that anger doesn't solve anything. It just corrodes your soul," Cashman told a packed Burlington courtroom made up mostly of people related...

BURLINGTON, January 5, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) -  According to a Vermont judge, serious crime should not be subject to punishment. “The one message I want to get through is that anger doesn't solve anything. It just corrodes your soul.” So said Judge Edward Cashman who then gave a 60-day jail sentence to a man who raped a little girl repeatedly for four years starting when the girl – the child of a friend - was six and ending when she was ten.Mark Hulett, 34, pleaded guilty in District Court in Burlington to two counts of aggravated sexual assault and one...