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Rapist's 60 Day Prison Sentence Triggers Outrage
Burlington, Vermont -- January 4, 2005

There was outrage Wednesday when a Vermont judge handed out a 60-day jail sentence to a man who raped a little girl repeatedly over a four-year span starting when she was seven

The judge said he no longer believes in punishment and is more concerned about rehabilitation.

Prosecutors argued that confessed child-rapist Mark Hulett, 34, of Williston deserved at least eight years behind bars for repeatedly raping a littler girl countless times starting when she was seven.

But Judge Edward Cashman disagreed explaining that he no longer believes that punishment works.

"The one message I want to get through is that anger doesn't solve anything. It just corrodes your soul," said Judge Edward Cashman speaking to a packed Burlington courtroom.

Most of the on-lookers were related to a young girl who was repeatedly raped by Mark Hulett who was in court to be sentenced.

http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=4319605&nav=4QcT

[keithinkorea]

I think the judge should be imprisoned and for a lot longer than 60 days.

Paedophilia is a sickness and a very dangerous one at that, people involved in these sick acts are notoriously hard to rehabilitate into decent people. Some of these sick people have even asked for chemical castration to prevent them from offending again in the future, they should be given the treatment.

60 days for this crime is a crime itself.

[laogaiguk]

I swear I am at a complete loss for words

[Rteacher]

The 60 day sentence might be OK if he's castrated first and it's the right kind of jail (where he's beaten-up and raped about 50 times a day...)

[EFLtrainer]

Don't worry, the rapist is a dead man walking. Then again, so is the judge. He'll be off the bench sooner rather than later.

"Escape from New York" had the right idea: Build a wall, toss 'em in.

[TheUrbanMyth]

It's not like he gets off scot free. He does have a 60 day sentence and AFTERWARDS must complete sex treatment (which is probably quite long and expensive). If he doesn't he faces a possible life sentence.

But if I had been the judge I'd have given him the maximum sentence possible.

[Satori]

That's the problem with liberals today, too out of touch with reality, no idea of how the real world works. I used to be a liberal, but they have dropped the ball so severely in the last 15 years there is no way I can attach to that group anymore. Thing is, I still loathe and abhore with every fibre of my being everything that a conservative stands for. So where do you go from there?

A strong sentence for this guy would not be "anger", simply common sense. He's dangerous. It's also about the message sent out to other offenders. This light sentence will embolden other paedophiles to step up thier efforts. The judge has blood on his hands.

[Yo!Chingo]

Kill em' and get em' out of the gene pool. Period. People like that don't deserve to live, and the $ that it takes to try and rehabilitate these people is a complete waste...not to mention the prison space for whatever sentence they get. I have a friend in prison for complete crap charges but he's mentioned to me what happens to pedofiles when the inmates find out what he/she's in for, and it ain't pretty. Probably wish they were dead after what they go through in the slammer!

[joe_doufu]

He's right, punishment is not about revenge. Revenge is uncivilized. Punishment is about protecting society in two ways: (1) discouraging the offender from repeating his crimes and (2) discouraging others from committing crimes. This judge has just given the green light to all the other pedophile rapists in his jurisdiction. (FYI pedophilia is different from rape, though they can be combined by particularly nasty offenders.)

[capebretoncanadian]

None of the extenuating circumstances are revealed. It seems to be a shoddily done article. I don't like rape....rape of children is exceptionally horrifying. To make an opinion based on that turd of an article is premature. Maybe the judge has a point? The article, terrible as it is....didn't even mention this characters post jail sentence. Maybe it's cleaning toilet bowls with his tongue for 10 years??

[haywill22]

I agree that what the judge did was criminal and I believe in the value of punishment and deterrence, BUT the article did leave out a few important items.


The judge wants the guy to be undergo counseling for his pedophilia, but in Vermont prisoners can not undergo therapy (what kind of law is this?). The pedophile will have to undergo years of therapy, if he misses his therapy session he will then have to serve a mandatory life sentence... the judge felt sending the guy to jail for years would only harden him and he would be released back into society.

This judge just put open season on children in Vermont, sicko's who wanna give it a shot might think the 60 days in jail and some mandatory counseling is a small price to pay for a few years of private time with a 9 year old.

[RachaelRoo]

Why does "therapy" and "rehabilitation" even enter this discussion or the mind of the judge? Hasn't therapy for pedophilia been proven to be completely ineffective 100% of the time?
Satori, you're exactly right about Liberals - this is going WAY too far. The notion that therapy is a way to fix people who are seriously and irreparably demented is creeping into areas of criminal justice that it never should.
Rehabilitation for 18 year olds who get high and steal cars? Sure, maybe. But for pedophiles and serial killers? This is just another Liberal attempt to ignore the facts about the way the world actually is in preference for a self-delusional world view in which everyone and everything is only misunderstood and in need of someone to reach out to them.

Pedophiles are evil, incurable, and lack the normal mechanisms to consider and respect other human beings - children, no less. If we can't execute them, at the very least they should never be allowed back into society under any circumstance.