Say no to drugs.
My general theory is that a large amount of what appears to be racism is actually classism. That is, white people donât have a problem with African-Americans, they have a problem with trashy poor people (irony implicit). Whatâs racist is assuming someone is poor based on the fact of their race.
In other words, the prejudice itself is classist, but the initial assumption of class is racist.
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Now, hey. Money doesnât get rich white folks out f a jail sentence; people get rich white folks out of a jail sentence. Donât go blaming the money, nowâŚ
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The man deserves a bullet. Not prison, definitely not rehab. A bullet to the base of the skull.
People like this always reoffend. Period. They canât be cured, they canât be fixed, they canât be monitored, they canât be persuaded. They need to be put down.
Mark my words, he will do it again, and will be smarter about not getting caught.
Did you even read the linked article? I read it and it doesnât change my view that if this guy wasnât the heir to an enormous fortune there might have been a significantly different outcome.
If your view is simply that itâs possible to imagine hypothetical counterfactuals, Iâm not sure what the point is there. If thereâs evidence this judge regularly sentences people who plea bargain to a 4th degree sexual assault to prison, and this is one of the few exceptions to that pattern, then youâve got a point. I havenât seen that.
The irony is how many people lose their anti-mandatory minimum religion the second judges actually exercise discretion.
Anyway, the article is the source of the claim that, as Cory Doctorow repeats in the original post,
Delaware Superior Court Judge Jan Jurden sentenced the admitted serial child-rapist to probation on the ground that he âwould not fare wellâ in prison.
That claim appears to be highly likely to be false. This should give people pause about the entire narrative being put forward here.
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How is it false? It was a notation made by the judge. Itâs the very first sentence in the article. Aside from having to get testimony from children, part of her consideration for treatment versus prison was that he could pay for it, instead of taxpayers footing the bill while in prison. But that still goes back to being wealthy has a weighted advantage in terms of justice.
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Youâre spending too much time over at the Perkinsâ house again, arenât you?
Is there a good answer to that question?
Wait . . . I thought the wealthy were the new persecuted minority?
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I agree that classism is growing in stature next to racism every day, but racism is still quite real.
Basically the story is a rich guy getting off scott free for a crime any of the rest of us would have gone to prison forever for. It would appear he got a sweet deal from the DA rather than from the judge? People may be harping on the particular phrase, but the real outrage is about the two-tiered justice system.
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According to that (thanks for the link, btw), he was sentenced to a sex offender treatment program as part of the probation. Two types of people are known to be the least likely to respond to treatment: pedophiles and sociopaths. In the case of a pedophile who grew up in a deprived and/or depraved environment, I imagine treatment could possibly help. This guy? Not so much.
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DuPont. In Delaware. Think âKennedy in Massachusetts,â only the Kennedys are just rich and powerful-- they donât own the major industrial company in Massachusetts to boot.
One of Richardsâ cousins, John Eleuthère DuPont, was convicted about 15 years back of killing a wrestling coach whose team trained on his property. It happened on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware/PA line, and he was sentenced to 20-40 years in prison, despite more than ample evidence of schizophrenia. No question whatsoever that if heâd been in Delaware, he would have been in a private mental hospital (he died in 2010).
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Further proof that people will complain about anything.
I know Iâm late to the party here, and I havenât read all the comments, but is it even possible to rehabilitate someone who did such a thing?
The world might yet get a days work out of him?
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In other unrelated news to take place in the mid-near future, Delaware Superior Court Judge Jan Jurden will have resigned his position to take a legal consulting job for an undisclosed sum for a corporation in the Virgin Islands who ownership could not be determined.
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Judge Jurden imposed a sentence of eight years in prison suspended in favor of eight years of probation with strict conditions. Those conditions included the completion of a rigorous residential and outpatient treatment program for sex offenders, close monitoring during the entire probation with zero tolerance for violations (which would reinstate the prison sentence), and no contact with children (including the defendantâs own children). This defendant has completed the sex offender program and has spent more than five years on intensively monitored probation under the supervision of Delawareâs highly trained Probation and Parole office with no violations of parole.
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I hope whoever kills him is âtoo delicate for prisonâ too.
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He confessed.
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