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All about the almighty dollar In response to Norma Johnson's letter on March 25, "Weber Got Off Lightly." You are right, Norma. Our judicial system's sense of crime vs. serious crime is really messed up. I recall a couple of articles in a newspaper approximately two years ago; the first one I couldn't miss. It was titled in large bold print at the top of the page and took up a quarter of the page. It was about a woman who embezzled $250,000 from a company. She received a sentence of 20 years in state prison. Down toward the bottom righthand side of the paper was an article about four inches long. It was about a man who had repeatedly, over the course of five years, sexually assaulted a little girl. His sentence was one year in jail, and to register as a sex offender. It's all screwed up. You can mess with our small innocent children, but by golly, don't mess with the almighty dollar! Weber's wife should have turned him in for tax evasion, if she could. At least she and the daughter would be safe for 20 years instead of one.
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Submitted by rhjimenez@sudde... on Sun, 05/03/2009 - 16:47.
And if we don't protect our children, in reference to much public literature and professional testimony, might these abused children themselves often become offenders. If so than this system of raising children to be offenders is an obvious travesty of justice. The liberals say so much about this to defend the actions of an offender but they do not want to take actions necessary to prevent this cycle from reoccurring. How about we do prevent this. How about we do what is common sense. Get rid of grants, start working because its the responsibility of everyone and follow the policies, procedures,and the law. The reward for this work will be a result of good work, happy and healthy kids. You can not put a price on that.
Submitted by rhjimenez@sudde... on Sun, 05/03/2009 - 16:39.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that mandated child abuse reporting laws are not enforced as indicated in the applicable sections, rather it is used for torts. A financial suit may be awarded to the victims after the damage is done. There is not an effort to enforce these laws of protecting our children. People who fail to do their job as mandated reporters by omission are not held to answer criminally just monetarily.
That is wrong and its proof that money is held in high regard and our children are not. We are a society that respond after the disaster if we have a grant to do so. If the crime could be prevented, it is not, because there is not enough money in it. However, we have numerous grants generated yearly that allegedly address this issue and they are categorized as proactive/preventive strategies- Sadly, our system fails at this merely due to lack of compliance to policies, procedures and the law. Often times these grants are used for other County expenditures and feigned as active projects. In our systems- Each individual case may differ depending on the one in charge. Usually the outcome will depend greatly on whether the primary case investigator has a private agenda that may or may not lead to appropriate case work. This issue applies to all levels of our investigative system- from CPS, Law Enforcement to the Judicial process. A case must go thru many different people who are in charge of a case within their department and at each level, lack of compliance to the law,policies and procedures are detrimental and each have a tremendous impact on the outcome of a CHILDS LIFE. Weather the report is suspicious and requires investigation or a crime has occurred and requires investigation, too many opportunities for people to do as they want instead of what they are obligated to do. This leaves room for bribes and otherwise perversions of the law to benefit the special interest of a person(s)/or group, other than the interest of the children. Prevention is much easier than perceived, it just doesn't pay as well. After all, if prevention is successful on any level then the grants will be less money or they may disappear altogether. Make sure the rules,policies, procedures and laws are followed- Then we can begin to protect those who need to be protected.
Submitted by rhjimenez@sudde... on Sun, 05/03/2009 - 16:09.
So true... It is disgusting how child molesters/abusers are allowed to continue their crimes. They learn to better conceal their crime each time they are questioned. Catch and release is not a good practice with these offenders. The sheer numbers of missing children is proof of that. Most stories of missing/abused and murdered children never make it to the AP News stream. I strongly feel that violent offenders with solid cases should receive the death penalty. Its not about revenge, its about protecting children. Lets take the football game out of the court room and ensure due process absolutely.
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