Vermont Judge Is A Danger To Children
By Dave Gibson (01/09/06)
Last week, Burlington, Vermont Judge Edward Cashman sentenced an admitted child rapist to a mere 60 days in jail. Prosecutors were seeking at least an eight year sentence (also outrageously lacking) for the molester. Cashman's foolish sentence not only places a child rapist back on the streets, but sends the message to all pedophiles: Come to Burlington...Our children our fair game!
The molester (Mark Hulett) who received the incredibly light sentence admitted to Judge Cashman that he had raped his victim so many times over a three year period, that he had lost count of their encounters. Hulett began raping the little girl when she was only seven years old.
Judge Cashman has been on the bench for 25 years. He now says that he no longer believes in punishment. Cashman also wanted rapist Hulett to enter a counseling program and thought that was more important than keeping him off the streets for several years.
Child rapist Mark Hulett will be free once again in only two months. He will be free once again to molest innocent children. Make no mistake...He will rape more children.
According to the National Institutes of Health, the average child molester sexually abuses 117 children over his lifetime. Child molesters cannot be rehabilitated. The only reliable solution to the problem is to extend the death penalty to these monsters.
In a few months or perhaps as long as a year or two, Mark Hulett will find the urge to molest a child overwhelming. He will put himself in a situation where he has access to a child and the horrible process will begin again. However, he will now have a willing and powerful accomplice to his most despicable crime: Judge Edward Cashman.
Until we become serious about eliminating child molesters from our society, instead of only paying lip service to the plight of children--we cannot consider ours to be a truly civilized society. After all...What can be said for a nation which allows its most vulnerable citizens to be victimized not only by the molesters, but by the justice system as well? Perhaps Vermont should now change their state motto from "Freedom and Unity" to "Child Molesters Have a Friend in Vermont."
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