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Edited by Recon Number 54:
6/11/2014 9:06:58 PM
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Sex offender flees to Canada and gets granted asylum?
A school faculty member in their 40's, has sex with a 16 year old student who is also a friend and teammate of their teenaged child, is tried and convicted of 5 counts (with DNA evidence that the crime occurred) and is sentenced to 30 years. I do not know if those 5 counts resulted in consecutive mandatory sentences or not. The total sentence was however, 30 years.
While out on bail, they flee to Canada and make an appeal to the Canadian government that they not be extradited back to the US to serve their prison term because the 30 year sentence is "cruel and unusual".
Those are the facts of the case, with some specific details left out before I ask you these questions.
If the convicted offender is a 40+ year old man and the 16 year old was the friend of his daughter, would the 30 years be a "cruel and unusual" sentence and worthy of granting asylum and denying extradition back to the US?
How about if the convicted offender is a 40+ year old woman and the 16 year old was the friend of her son, would the 30 years be a "cruel and unusual" sentence and worthy of granting asylum and denying extradition back to the US?
[url=http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/06/09/denise-harvey-sex-offender_n_5473460.html]Convicted Florida Sex Offender, Granted Asylum In Canada[/url]
So, is justice "blind"?
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1 ReplyI don't know. I'm beginning to see his point, as reluctant as I am to say that. This country does pre-judge people who commit "Sex Crimes." And while he was guilty, and what he did was very, very wrong, is it worth 30 years? Especially when the sexes are reversed, the woman gets time served and mandatory therapy instead? Also, 30 years on that charge is a death sentence. When the prison population hears it was a kid, and his daughter's friend, then they tend to take matters into their own hands. As I see it there are more than one kind of sex offender. And time will tell what this guy is. Is he the predator that will one day kill kids after assaulting them? Is he the guy going through a midlife crisis and took his finger off the button for a minute, ala American Beauty? Is he the victim, and she came on to him? (see the movie 13) That does happen. Furthermore, when you make the sex offender's list, in any way, for anything, kiss any job goodbye, kiss buying a house goodbye, pretty much you should just embrace your life of poverty and discrimination. Until you die. Our instinct to protect our children, and a system that states all must be treated the same has made it to where it is cruel and unusual. May it is for him. I don't know.
