Judge in California orders serial rapist's release

[theHandpuppet]

What the freaking hell??

BBC News
23 May 2014
Judge in California orders serial rapist's release

A man who raped and assaulted at least 40 women has been ordered to live in a remote California community, despite objections from residents there.

Christopher Evans Hubbart, who police believe may have had as many as 100 victims, will rent a small house in a rural area near the city of Palmdale.

A Santa Clara judge heard objections at an all-day hearing on Wednesday but issued his order two days later...

... He admitted raping and assaulting about 40 women between 1971 and 1982, when he was sentenced to 16 years in prison. Police believe the number of victims to be closer to 100.

MORE at http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27553652

[JJChambers]

1. Don't you love these bleeding heart, soft-on-crime judges?

[Mz Pip]

2. When it comes to rape, yes.

Violent offenders don't get any soft on crime warm fuzziness from me. Locking up the guy who sells some grass - well, consider me soft on crime for that one.

[theHandpuppet]

3. Yeah, soft on rape crimes

I'm SICK TO DEATH of hearing about rapists getting probation or even no time at all, just a little lecture or sympathy from the judge.

Get caught with a baggie of weed -- say hello the American prison system.

Rape a woman, a girl or even an hundred women... welcome to the neighborhood!

[tularetom]

4. Of course no judge ever releases one of these creeps into his own neighborhood

Sure, stick him out in the boonies 300 miles away. Then if he rapes another woman, people there won't remember who was the judge who sent him there.

[Terra Alta]

5. 16 years in prison for raping an assaulting over 40 women?

WTF?

Meanwhile, I have a friend who is serving 34 years in federal prison for a non-violent drug offense. Didn't kill anybody, didn't rape anybody, just sold some drugs. Something is seriously wrong with this picture.