For raping daughter, man gets probation

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[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

For raping daughter, man gets probation
Associated Press
April 26, 2002 08:25:00


LUFKIN, Texas - A Texas man convicted of raping his daughter has received the lightest punishment available.

Angelina County jurors have sentenced him to five years probation.

The jury convicted the 32-year-old man Thursday of repeatedly sexually assaulting his 12-year-old daughter.

Jurors could have sentenced him to up to 99 years or life in prison.

A state judge has also ordered the man to have no contact with the girl.

The girl's parents were divorced. Prosecutors say the sexual assaults began during the girl's weekend and summer visits with her father.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

what else can you say but this is an outrage

[AppyPappy]

Her dad should......SIGH! never mind.

[billybudd]

Her dad should ... be shot!

[PokeyJoe]

Her "dad" should... have his tally wacker wacked clean off.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

well look at it this way if he were a cardinal in boston he would get a promotion

[alaskanfan]

A sad statement about the justice system in Texas, and this father sperm donor.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

this just doesnt seem like a texas jury verdict to me he must had a jury full of pedophiles

[Republicus2001]

Once a long time ago, wasn't rape and child molestation a capital offense?

[Khepera]

Once a long time ago we had more sense.

[alaskanfan]

My impression also. I would have expected the title to read more like:

For raping daughter, man gets castration

[Izzy Dunne]

Angelina County jurors have sentenced him to five years probation.

There's gotta be more to this story...
Surely these people have more respect for kids than that.
Or am I too much of an optimist?

[Drango]

What is this guy, a priest or something?

[chiefqc]

Her "DAD" should have to share a cell with BUBBA. I hear BUBBA is looking for a new sex play toy.

[Atticus]

Omitted from article: "The jury foreman, Fr. Bernard Klupp, was unavailable for comment, as were the other members of the all-Jesuit jury."

[another cricket]

I think it is in Nevada that you get mandatory life for the rape of a child under 14.

I also think that that is a wonderful idea.

a.cricket

[antidisestablishment]

Man, Lufkin must have changed radically since I was there a few years ago. Must be that Austin influence . . .

[grellis]

All I can do is pray that he was given probabtion because he would not get the death sentence. Maybe the jury decided it would be easier to dispense some REAL justice with the sick bastard out on the streets.

[drgnwrks]

As a father, I hereby volunteer to cut his balls off with a hammer, and not the claw end either...

[Sub-Driver]

yea, but was he a smoker?

[joyce11111]

he should be strung up by his _____s.