Wealthy Child Molester Gets Probation, Wouldn't Fare Well In Prison

[SydneyK]

Originally Posted by als463

You also stated that CPS caseworkers are some of the most unqualified people and it's one of the few careers where such unqualified people can work and have such power and responsibility.
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You seem to make excuses for this man who may be a sex offender. Just because you make a living by defending people like that doesn't mean that every time a young child comes forward with an allegation that it isn't true. ...

Do you believe all children should be seen and not heard (or believed)? It appears so.

The power/ability to remove a child from his/her parents' home is huge. Huge. There should be a tremendous amount of preparation required for someone to enter the CPS field. Why isn't there?

I don't know that Kevin's making excuses for this man who, as you yourself even said, "may" be a sex offender. He hasn't yet been convicted, right?

I can't imagine the kind of shit Kevin must see every day in his line of work. Family law is brutal. If you worked in an environment where you saw women coaching their kids to lie just to screw over the dad, you'd probably be reluctant to blindly agree with anything any kid says, too. That doesn't mean Kevin believes all children should be seen and not heard (or believed). That's a crazy leap.

[Kevin]

To be fair, he's convicted. I'm just suggesting that it's entirely possible that he didn't do it and being so certain that he did is a little ridiculous given the fact that all we have are a couple of incendiary articles.

The people expressing certainty here really have no idea if it really happened or not, but considering the alternatives--suspended sentence and freedom and a trust fund vs. possibly 20+ years to do, most of these folks would have taken the same deal if in this guy's situation. Guilty or not.

Getting a suspended sentence for child rape isn't unheard of or reserved for the top 1%. I don't know if I said above, I recently had a client who was guilty as hell of doing things with a prostitute who turned out to be 14. Prior to hiring me, but after admitting it to the police, he had gone on the news and said something to the effect of "I'm not going to lie, I did what they said I did." I still managed to get a suspended sentence.

Most of y'all have zero idea of what goes into a plea or the fact that innocent people plead guilty to crimes all the time when facing significant time in the penitentiary vs. walking free.