“However, his mother wrote a letter to the judge asking for no prison time, citing the fact that he walked his rape victim home showed that he wasn’t a violent criminal.”

“youthful mistakes”

You would be if you were responsible for enabling the behaviours from childhood. My own mother is like this with my criminal brother, and she had a lot to do with how he turned out, unfortunately.

However, his mother wrote a letter to the judge asking for no prison time, citing the fact that he walked his rape victim home showed that he wasn’t a violent criminal.

I have to assume the woman who was his first victim has been notified of all this, and I keep thinking about how re-traumatized she must be. Ugh, what a piece of shit.

Do realtors in the US also often double as rental property managers? In Australia there’s a lot of crossover and the idea of a violent sex offender having access to all those keys isn’t great. I’m all for rehabilitation and second chances, but, you know, within reason.

Being a realtor is a great way to get people alone in creepy out of the way places.

I’ve been following this since it broke on Thursday and this guy is all kinds of “lock him up and throw away the key”. His own father thought he was a lost cause after the first rape. However, his mother wrote a letter to the judge asking for no prison time, citing the fact that he walked his rape victim home showed…

Yes, I had a neighbor who was a registered sex offender and I found out from his sister that it was because he got caught having consensual sex in public, nothing else. Meanwhile the guy down the street had touched multiple children under his care. These are not the same!

With you. I scrolled back up to make sure I had not been confused in my understanding that this was an adult woman. Nope.

“30-year-old”

I really think that sex offender lists should include a description of what they did. That way we can distinguish the “public urination” folks from guys like this.

I’m going to use “we” here, and I hope that’s okay because although I won’t pretend to know your situation, I think you and I have both come from similar enough backgrounds and difficulties with our moms (my mom ran my foot over with her car when I was 15, because I forgot my lunch on the counter at home. News flash,…

Please give me the strength. I’m browsing Jezebel from the bathroom I’m pretending to need to use while avoiding A Required Family Event.