How Feminism Hurts Men

[Chan790]

24. Don't know for certain...

but based on the no contest plea, I'd have to guess it's a sentencing arrangement in order to spare the victim from having to relive the incident by testifying about it in open court; there's generally a lot of pressure from above to seek pleas for that reason on violent, sexual or otherwise highly traumatic crimes against minors, even where the minors themselves want to testify.

One of my good friends from college is an ADA in a major east-coast US city now prosecuting major crime with financial components (such as racketeering, murder for hire, embezzlement; he started out on a task-force that went after drug suppliers and violent gang members for financial crimes like tax evasion and child support delinquency because a conviction is a conviction if it gets them off the streets and you can subsequently build a case on the more-serious crime to keep them there. But I'm digressing...well, sort of. I'll come back to this.) and this is the bane of his existence...he constantly gets pressure from the state AG, the mayor's office and the DA to take deals where kids are involved, even where the plea deal is 1/10 what he can get on conviction and the minor victim or witness is chomping to testify.

The other factor here is that the thing they really want is the lifetime sex-offender status with a perpetrator like this, that's worth trading off a longer sentence today. (They can't keep him inside forever on a single count of rape unfortunately. It exceeds the max-sentencing guidelines. Also, a conviction is never certain, even in the most cut-and-dried obvious cases.) The SO status means, if he gets out, he's never allowed to work or have contact with a pool we know he's hunting out of...his players. It keeps him away from working in any capacity with or near children. It's fairly major and it wasn't certain even with a conviction, it's discretionary upon the sentencing judge based on the facts in evidence. (and judges can be idiots.)

Likewise, this takes him off the street for a year...it's like the violent gang leaders getting 180 days for child-support delinquency; if you think there's more victims out there or a more-serious crime, this gives you a year to build that case and seek serious jail-time.