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D.A. Drops Additional Charges against HIV-positive Sex Offender
Express Times ^ | 2/3/10 | Sara Cassi

Posted on 02/03/2010 4:12:37 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta

An HIV-positive Bath man previously convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl and owning 96 images of child pornography will not go to trial in three other cases.

Assistant District Attorney Patricia Broscius decided to drop charges against Shaun Patrick Austin of interfering in child custody and having sex with two teenage girls.

Broscius said the decision was made in part because of the “substantial” prison sentence Austin is facing from his two previous convictions.

•Austin was sentenced in December to 72 years to 192 years in state prison for the child pornography. Austin is asking Judge Edward G. Smith to reconsider the sentence.

•Austin has yet to be sentenced on the rape conviction, but it carries a maximum sentence of 52 years in prison.

(Excerpt) Read more at lehighvalleylive.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hiv; sexoffender

1 posted on 02/03/2010 4:12:38 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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Shaun Austin in 2008

2 posted on 02/03/2010 4:15:12 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

Leave some rope in his cell and hope he is decent enough to use it.


3 posted on 02/03/2010 4:33:31 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Venturer

I have a better idea. Deny him all medication and inject him with a painful, slow-acting infection.


4 posted on 02/03/2010 4:40:13 AM PST by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

So “justice” is now defined as “we only prosecute until he is facing ‘enough’ punishment?

NO.

Justice is that he is tried for all crimes he is accused of. If he is found guilty, he is sentenced accordingly.

I don’t care if it’s 100 years or 1000 years of prison time. THE VICTIMS HAVE THE RIGHT TO THEIR DAY IN COURT AND THE SENSE THAT THEIR ATTACKER HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY AND WILL BE PUNISHED.

These idiots are BEGGING the American people to return to lynching and other vigilantism.


5 posted on 02/03/2010 4:42:45 AM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

6 posted on 02/03/2010 5:00:33 AM PST by fredhead (Liberals think globally, reason rectally, act idiotically.)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
Doesn't anyone see the contradiction in this story? The perv has HIV,...so according myth and fable he should be dead soon with AIDS, so why sentence him to 800,000 years? Could it be that HIV doesn't cause AIDS, and that AIDS is NOT a sexually-tranmitted disease, and that the HIV retrovirus is merely a ubiquitous passenger virus, and that we have all been used by the homosexual nazis for the past 30 years? Gee, who would have thunk!

The sad part is they will 'force feed' his victims so-called anti-HIV drugs that in all likelihood will kill them. AZT isn't exactly candy! Oh well, the stupidity goes on. We'll be reading stories like this for the next 100 years until someone stands up and happens to mention that the King isn't wearing any clothes!

7 posted on 02/03/2010 5:10:32 AM PST by Doc Savage (SOBAMP!)
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To: Venturer

“Leave some rope in his cell and hope he is decent enough to use it.”

Rumor has it that inmates hate child molesters. Let him live every day in deep fear. Better than a quick death ;-)


8 posted on 02/03/2010 5:37:53 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

Well, that’s all fine and dandy. But this I do not follow:

A max. of 52 years for actually raping a little girl, and 72 to 192 years for having some porn pics (even if they are vile CP)? Almost seems like ridiculing the rape.


9 posted on 02/03/2010 8:23:37 AM PST by Moltke (DOPE will get you 4 to 8 in the Big House - HOPE will get you 4 to 8 in the White House.)
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