It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
The judge noted that the man was undergoing sex offender treatment and was deemed unlikely to relapse and that a psychiatrist testified he was not a danger to his own or other children.
A Brooklyn man who faced 10 years for downloading child pornography was sentenced to five days by a federal judge who sharply criticized punishment guidelines for failing to distinguish between dangerous offenders and those who pose little threat.
U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein wrote a 98-page decision explaining why he bypassed the guidelines and chose not to put the man in prison for possessing two dozen photos and videos — some showing men sexually assaulting girls as young as 3 years old, according to court papers.
"Removing R.V. from his family will not further the interests of justice," Weinstein wrote, using the defendant's initials.
for possessing two dozen photos and videos — some showing men sexually assaulting girls as young as 3 years old, according to court papers.
"It will cause serious harm to his young children by depriving them of a loving father and role model
But he added, "I would never physically do anything. I never had even a thought of it."
That man said that he had done something wrong and was ashamed of it but that locking him up would not have served any purpose and would have "put my family living out on the street."
originally posted by: ReadLeader
This article makes me cringe. We have a 53 yr old man with 5 children. He is engaged in sending and receiving child porn. This is not normal behavior. I am shocked the judge wrote a 98 page doc. On WHY he decided NOT to lock this pedafile up....
What say you ATS? Are you ok with this? Is this ok, or am just old fashioned? I think he deserves a good 15yrs or so in the pen
I'm not good w/this. He was already engaged in this discusting activity in the past.
The judge noted that the man was undergoing sex offender treatment and was deemed unlikely to relapse and that a psychiatrist testified he was not a danger to his own or other children.
A Brooklyn man who faced 10 years for downloading child pornography was sentenced to five days by a federal judge who sharply criticized punishment guidelines for failing to distinguish between dangerous offenders and those who pose little threat.
U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein wrote a 98-page decision explaining why he bypassed the guidelines and chose not to put the man in prison for possessing two dozen photos and videos — some showing men sexually assaulting girls as young as 3 years old, according to court papers.
"Removing R.V. from his family will not further the interests of justice," Weinstein wrote, using the defendant's initials.
L I N K
for possessing two dozen photos and videos — some showing men sexually assaulting girls as young as 3 years old, according to court papers.
Either you want FREEDOM or you want none
Senior U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein, who presided over thousands of hearings, said he looked at the facts of the criminal's behavior, the inmate's behavior in prison and their family support while assessing whether an offender would be a danger to the community.
"The first question the judge asks himself is, 'If I release this person now or shorten the sentence now, will he be a greater danger to the community?' and the statistics say very clearly no," he said.
“But when the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange sued the chemical companies in federal court, U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein dismissed the lawsuit, concluding that Agent Orange did not constitute a poison weapon prohibited by the Hague Convention of 1907. Weinstein had reportedly told the chemical companies when they settled the U.S. veterans’ suit that their liability was over and he was making good on his promise. His dismissal was affirmed by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court refused to hear the case. The chemical companies admitted in their filing in the Supreme Court that the harm alleged by the victims was foreseeable although not intended. How can something that is foreseeable be unintended?
originally posted by: TNMockingbird
a reply to: awareness10
Do...IT!
Twisted individuals who take "rational" thought and just throw it out the window and try and use "our words" against us to serve their sick wants and desires and then cry "oh you want to take our freedoms away!"...
No, I want people like "you" (not YOU, that guy) to live in a hole in darkness where people don't have to be afraid for their children playing in their yard, walking home from school, or just living a normal life (whatever that is today!).
There was an individual, not far from me, who was convicted of having raped his girlfriend's infant child. I will find the article. THEY WERE AN INFANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WTF is wrong with people?!
Adult porn and TODDLER porn are TWO DIFFERENT things!!!!
Period.
That's it.
Finale.
Spell cast away!!!!!!!!
originally posted by: TNMockingbird
a reply to: Guenter
With all due respect,
Did you read the link?
for possessing two dozen photos and videos — some showing men sexually assaulting girls as young as 3 years old, according to court papers.
Why, just asking, would someone choose to look at photos of 3 YEAR OLD CHILDREN being RAPED?
He is a convicted sex offender!