Creepy Judge Reduces Pedophile’s Sentence, Suggests Little Girl Caused Her Own Rape

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40. Look at this: This same asshole went easy on a CHP officer who raped a 13-year-old girl

One Orange County judge signals his philosophy to jurors by hanging a poster of a shoot-first-ask-questions-later Clint Eastwood character in his courtroom. Judge M. Marc Kelly is more subtle. The wall to Kelly’s left—the one that faces jurors who sit in his 10th-floor courtroom—is loaded with Notre Dame paraphernalia, including a headshot of the university’s loudmouth former football coach, Lou Holtz. It’s odd artwork in a criminal-justice setting for several reasons, including that Holtz famously uttered about a player, “He had shoulder surgery on his elbow.”

In the Orange County district attorney’s office, many believe Kelly recently made his own gaffe. He ignored prosecution and probation department requests of stern punishment for a condom-carrying, 51-year-old police officer who attempted to have sex with a 13-year-old Laguna Beach girl after she revealed her parents had left home for the evening. Prosecutor Robert Mestman wanted Stephen Robert Deck sent to prison because Deck had loudly proclaimed his innocence, lost a lewd-conduct jury trial in 2009, isn’t remorseful and “continues to be a danger to society.”

During the March 19 sentencing, a weepy, trembling Deck—who was a California Highway Patrol (CHP) lieutenant in OC when he was arrested in February 2006—pleaded for mercy. Reading from a handwritten note, he told Kelly that he had “no excuses,” he wasn’t a pedophile, and he’s “tackled the issues.”
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“I’m asking for the opportunity to be on probation,” said Deck, who was handcuffed to his chair and wearing an orange OC Jail jump suit. “I will do well. I’m truly sorry for my actions.”

Deck’s acts were despicable. He used the Internet to search for underage sex partners in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades—or younger. For example, according to law-enforcement records, the CHP officer told Kristin, his 13-year-old Costa Mesa online-chatting partner, to turn off the Yahoo Messenger archiving feature on her computer so her mother couldn’t discover their relationship. Then he tried to lure the girl to a hotel room near South Coast Plaza. He hoped to get her pregnant there, according to a later-recovered chat log.

http://www.ocweekly.com/2010-03-25/news/moxley-confidential-chp-stephen-deck/