>>Ok. I was a little off. The victim was actually 9 years old. It happened in Missouri.
>>I can't find the whole article but here is a part of it.
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>>http://news.netscape.com/story/2006/11/29/man-rapes-9yr-old-only-gets-probation
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>>Wow. I am stunned (for real). It's incomprehensible to me that a judge would give probation for raping a child (and it was his step granddaughter!!!).
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>>If I had a nine year old daughter (or 5, or 13, or whatever) and someone raped her, I'd gut the bastard like a fish.
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>Here is another similar case.
>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/law/08/14/newark.shootings.ap/index.html?eref=edition_us
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>... illegal alien...31 counts surrounding the alleged sexual assault of a child... out on $5,000.00 bond. Then he and his buddies kill three college students execution style in Newark.
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>I better stop before somebody calls me a raciest and a bigot.

I see nothing racist or bigotted about your having pointed out a gross failing of the justice system. Besides, you're of a race yourself that is often subject to racism, bigotry, bullying, ridicule and prejudice.

One of the more tragic tales I read about in recent years was that of the actor (and doctor) Haing S. Ngor, who played photographer Dith Pran in "The Killing Fields". A native of Cambodia, he became a captive of the Khmer Rouge and was imprisoned and tortured. In order to escape execution he denied being a doctor or having an education. He moved to the U.S. as a refugee in 1980.

He died at the hands of an asian gang who tried to rob him for crack money in 1996. I seem to recall that, ironically, those kids were cambodian refugees themselves who'd grown up in the gang culture of LA. He'd worked FOR cambodian refugees, including co-founding two major refugee aid societies.