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Cattledog

(5,914 posts)
Thu May 2, 2019, 05:45 PM May 2019

Man who kept girl in dog cage, sexually assaulted her won't serve prison time

A Georgia man was sentenced to 10 years in prison last week after holding a teenage girl captive and sexually assaulting her ― but he will not see the inside of a prison cell.

Michael Wysolovski, 33, was arrested in June 2017 after FBI agents found a 17-year-old girl, who had been missing for over a year, trapped in a dog cage in his home in Duluth, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. The Atlanta Journal-Constituion reported that the victim, who HuffPost will not name because she is a sexual assault survivor, was found severely malnourished and suffering from back problems due to the dog cage. She had also contracted ringworm from the unsanitary conditions.

“The psychological damage Michael Wysolovski inflicted is beyond imagination,” the victim, clutching a stuffed animal, said in court last week, according to local outlet WIS News.

Wysolovski pled guilty last week to first-degree cruelty to children and interstate interference with custody. Although he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, Wysolovski received credit for time served during the eight months he was in a detention center prior to his sentencing. The remaining nine years and four months of his sentence will be served on probation and he will have to register as a sex offender for life.

“I don’t see any emotion from you. I don’t see any remorse from you,” Gwinnett County Superior Court Judge Timothy Hamil said during sentencing. “I am not moved to give you first offender status... In my time on the bench I can count on both hands the time I’ve refused to give someone first offender status ― but there’s something inside me that says this is one of those times.”

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Man who kept girl in dog cage, sexually assaulted her won't serve prison time (Original Post) Cattledog May 2019 OP
Damn Solly Mack May 2019 #1
there will be a reckoning someday Amyishere May 2019 #2
kick Blue_Tires May 2019 #3
Imprison a woman for a year, serve no more than 10 months. Ms. Toad May 2019 #4
Wow. n/t PoliticAverse May 2019 #5
Maybe someone should imprison him for a year PoindexterOglethorpe May 2019 #6
9 years of probation for raping a child ?! wow uponit7771 May 2019 #7
I hope the poor victim has older brothers. Ilsa May 2019 #8
I would recommend that they do not become vigilantes. maxsolomon May 2019 #12
Maybe the perv perp's next victim Ilsa May 2019 #15
Maybe he could lead DHS or CBP JustABozoOnThisBus May 2019 #9
Georgia judges?? The good ol boy system??? That is mind boggling Thekaspervote May 2019 #10
It isn't just Georgia. Delmette2.0 May 2019 #11
1053 years for incest rape in Liberalfornia and 60 days in conservative Montana keithbvadu2 May 2019 #13
It makes a person wonder what the 60 day judge has for morals. Delmette2.0 May 2019 #17
Can her attorney appeal this abomination of a sentence? BeckyDem May 2019 #14
I hope her family raises holy hell. I'm too far away. lindysalsagal May 2019 #16
her name and photo are in the attached article link IcyPeas May 2019 #18
This is beyond disgusting. Flaleftist May 2019 #19
Beyond disgusting. Duppers May 2019 #20

Amyishere

(69 posts)
2. there will be a reckoning someday
Thu May 2, 2019, 05:55 PM
May 2019

or not
or Barr will continue to preside over injustices like this, and rapists from Kavanaugh on down will continue to run shit.After all, we have a rapist in chief saying it's all okay, and idiots want to "run out the clock" instead of helping victims today.

What is the correlation? Barr recently ruled while everyone was paying attention to other matters that immigrant families can be indefinitely detained.

kids in cages. It's as American as apple pie.

I am so disgusted I plan to leave the country in the next ninety days.

It is not what is being done that disgusts me about America. It's how little do anything about it.

yes, I will vote from elsewhere, absentee, but I cannot any longer tolerate the acceptance of evil with inaction.

Ms. Toad

(34,062 posts)
4. Imprison a woman for a year, serve no more than 10 months.
Thu May 2, 2019, 05:58 PM
May 2019

Cool. Can I steal a million dollars and only get fined $833,333? Sounds like a good money-making plan to me.

In case I need it:

Ilsa

(61,694 posts)
8. I hope the poor victim has older brothers.
Thu May 2, 2019, 06:11 PM
May 2019

They might be the type to kidnap and put that rapist in a dog crate for a few years, then take him out to a wilderness area to get lost.

If anyone did what he did to anyone in my family and got time served, I'd probably be setting things up.

I just don't understand how a judge can let him get away with 8 months when that poor girl was so badly abused. The man is 33. I don't think this is the first time he raped a woman or girl.

maxsolomon

(33,310 posts)
12. I would recommend that they do not become vigilantes.
Thu May 2, 2019, 06:51 PM
May 2019

I don't understand this sentence, but they can't fix it.

Ilsa

(61,694 posts)
15. Maybe the perv perp's next victim
Thu May 2, 2019, 07:37 PM
May 2019

can convince the judge that he was fucking crazy to let that man off so lightly.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,338 posts)
9. Maybe he could lead DHS or CBP
Thu May 2, 2019, 06:13 PM
May 2019

"Putting children in cages" is a resume bullet point.

"Sexual Assault" might indicate presidential aspirations.

I don't think prison time would help this guy. Without remorse, there would be no correction. But it would get him away from society and might give his victim some measure of relief.

Delmette2.0

(4,164 posts)
11. It isn't just Georgia.
Thu May 2, 2019, 06:37 PM
May 2019

There was a Montana judge about 4-5 years ago who ruled that a teenage girl who had committed suicide was the aggressor and let the older man off with a slap on the wrist.

The old white men who are judges are all over this country.

It is always her fault, he had no control over the situation ( bullshit)

keithbvadu2

(36,775 posts)
13. 1053 years for incest rape in Liberalfornia and 60 days in conservative Montana
Thu May 2, 2019, 07:20 PM
May 2019

1053 years for incest rape in Liberalfornia and 60 days in conservative Montana

Montana justice 60 days for incest rape

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2016/10/24/two-fathers-raped-their-daughters-one-got-60-days-in-jail-the-other-1503-years-in-prison/?utm_term=.b3857ae2999c

Two fathers raped their daughters. One got 60 days in jail. The other? 1,503 years in prison.

Delmette2.0

(4,164 posts)
17. It makes a person wonder what the 60 day judge has for morals.
Thu May 2, 2019, 08:01 PM
May 2019

I won't put on writing what I actually think such a judge was thinking, none if it is good thoughts and prayers.

IcyPeas

(21,858 posts)
18. her name and photo are in the attached article link
Thu May 2, 2019, 09:00 PM
May 2019

she has asbergers. and of course the rapist is white.

Flaleftist

(3,473 posts)
19. This is beyond disgusting.
Thu May 2, 2019, 09:29 PM
May 2019

I would even consider 10 years lenient.


What kind of message is this sending to would be kidnappers and rapists? You pretty much get a free pass if it's your first offense.

Fuck that judge. If there is a hell, he should be right along side the rapist after his judgement.

Duppers

(28,120 posts)
20. Beyond disgusting.
Fri May 3, 2019, 10:56 AM
May 2019

Since he has inflicted such agony on a human being, imagine what he's done and would do to animals.

Does such a heinous person deserve to ever be free in society? What are the chances he has any remorse?!

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