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Showing Original Post only (View all)Billionaire Gets 4 MONTHS For Sexually Assaulting 12-Year-Old Because He’s ‘Productive’ [View all]
In the United States, it doesnt matter who you are; if youre rich, you receive special treatment in our justice system.
SC Johnson, the family companys billionaire heir, Samuel Curtis Johnson III, who confessed to repeatedly sexually assaulting his teenage stepdaughter has received an outrageous prison sentence of only four months because the judge, Circuit Justice Eugene Gasiorkiewicz, feels that Johnsons importance to the community is valued much higher than the dignity of his abused step-daughter.
You read that right. Affluenza, as it has been dubbed, has struck again. This billionaire has officially plead guilty to mere misdemeanor charges of fourth-degree sexual assault and disorderly conduct instead of receiving the maximum which is felony sexual assault on a minor child. These charges originally stem from 2011. Think Progress reported Johnsons stepdaughter initially told police Johnson was a sex addict and touched her inappropriately 15 to 20 times starting when she was 12 years old. She told her mother about the abuse in order to protect her younger sister, and Johnson confessed when the mother confronted him. Because Johnsons victim was unwilling to testify in the case, the prosecutors had to make a plea deal with Johnson and his legal team.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/06/07/billionaire-gets-off/
This was posted in Wisconsin group but I thought it is of wider interest. How depraved must our oligarchy become before we destroy it?
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Billionaire Gets 4 MONTHS For Sexually Assaulting 12-Year-Old Because He’s ‘Productive’ [View all]
tabasco
Jun 2014
OP
The judge in this case should be heavily sentenced right along with the sexual assaulter for his
lumpy
Jun 2014
#1
Wonder how much money transpired from the defendant, to his lawyer, to the judge.
Tuesday Afternoon
Jun 2014
#4
Plutocracies won't stop just because wealthy people are far removed from normal law.
Rex
Jun 2014
#12
Similar thing happened where I live. The one thing the guy had to do was register
mackerel
Jun 2014
#13
You assume that the only reason a sex crime victim would refuse to testify is that she was bribed?
Jim Lane
Jun 2014
#41
The customers of the Boys Town sex ring were "captains of industry" too.
Spitfire of ATJ
Jun 2014
#60