“One Percenter Convicted Of Raping Infant Child
Dodges Jail Because He ‘Will Not Fare Well’”
by Ashley Alman
According to the lawsuit filed by Richards’ ex-wife, he admitted to assaulting his infant son in addition to his daughter between 2005 and 2007. Richards was initially indicted on two counts of second-degree child rape, felonies that translate to a 10-year mandatory jail sentence per count. He was released on $60,000 bail while awaiting his charges.
Richards hired one of the state’s top law firms and was offered a plea deal of one count of fourth-degree rape charges- which carries no mandatory minimum prison sentencing. He accepted, and admitted to the assault. In her sentence, Jurden said he would benefit from participating in a sex offenders rehabilitation program rather than serving prison time.
Delaware Public Defender Brendan J. O’Neill told The News Journal that it was “extremely rare” for an individual to fare well in prison. “Prison is to punish, to segregate the offender from society, and the notion that prison serves people well hasn’t proven to be true in most circumstances,” he said, adding that the light sentence for the member of the one percent raised questions about “
how a person with great wealth may be treated by the system.” (Though perhaps it provides more answers than questions.)
According to the The News Journal, several attorneys claimed treatment over jail time was a deal more typically granted to drug addicts, not sex offenders. Kendall Marlowe, executive director of the National Association for Counsel for Children, told The News Journal that sex offenders are jailed for the safety of the children they threaten. “Child protection laws are there to safeguard children, and adults who knowingly harm children should be punished,” she said. “Our prisons should be more rehabilitative environments, but the prison system’s inadequacies are not a justification for letting a child molester off the hook.”
News of the lenient sentence for the confessed rapist comes as a new book, Thomas Piketty’s “
Capitalism In The 21st Century,” has put new focus on the distorting role of inheritance in the free market economy.”
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A Comment: I’m speechless, which right now is a good thing… if I said what I’m thinking about this goddamned piece of filth, Google would shut this blog down instantly and a SWAT team would be beating down my door, omg, THERE’S your goddamned 1%, in all their glory! There is NOTHING more vile than the sexual abuse of children. Nothing! In my humble opinion anyone lawfully convicted of this atrocity should be immediately be put to death, no appeal, no bullshit rehabilitation, if you’re this insanely defective we don’t need you in society. And this piece of garbage, this filthy parasite walks free because he’s rich? He “would not fare well?” My f****ng heart just breaks at the thought of this monster not faring well. – CP
To think, a 1%’er rightwinger, dodging jail, for raping his daughter. Yet….the rightwingers who have absolutely nothing because of his kind, are loyal to that thieving party. Go figure?
he is a child of the Rothschild family he is the great grandson