Baby-Raping One Percenter Avoids Prison [View all]
From Ring of Fire:
When a one percenter breaks a financial law, it’s just about expected that all they’ll do is pay a fine, avoid prison, and on their life goes. It’s a sad injustice, but that’s the current norm. With macabre and disgusting crimes, like rape and murder, surely no one is exempt from justice after committing such, right? Not in one instance, which is horrifying.
Robert H. Richards is the great grandson of Irenee du Pont and heir to the du Pont pamily fortune. Six years ago, the Delaware resident was convicted of raping his three-year-old daughter and was only given probation and ordered to rehabilitation treatment. The reasoning of Superior Court Judge Jan Jurden was that Richards “will not fare well” behind bars.
The case received recent public attention after Richards’ ex-wife filed a lawsuit on behalf of her children in pursuit of “compensatory and punitive damages for assault, negligence, and intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress” on the children.
You can read the full article here at Ring of Fire.
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