Posted on 09/03/2013 11:22:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dear Lord:
That’s when they learned for the first time that numerous teachers in the school district wrote to the court to plead for a lenient sentence for their colleague. They were shocked to see several teachers – and school board member Mike Eagan – sitting across the courtroom with the sex offender’s family.
“Neal made a mistake,” teacher Sally Campbell wrote to the judge, according to the Ogemaw County Herald. “He allowed a mutual friendship to develop into much more. He realized his mistake and ended it years before someone anonymously sent something in to the authorities which began this legal process.”
“I am asking that Neal be given the absolute minimum sentence, considering all the circumstances surrounding this case,” wrote Amy Huber Eagan, a teacher and wife of board member Mike Eagan. “I am also hoping that he can stay remanded to the custody of the Ogemaw County Jail and not be sent to a prison facility.”
“Neal has pled (sic) guilty for his one criminal offense but he is not a predator,” teacher Harriett Coe wrote, according to the Herald. “This was an isolated incident. He understands the severity of his action and is sincere in his desire to make amends. He has been candid and conveyed his action to his family, friends and co-workers.”
In all, 10 people, including seven WB-RC teachers, submitted letters of support for Erickson, most pleading for a reduced sentence. They included Campbell, Amy Eagan, Coe, Toni Erickson, Carol Rau, Marilyn Glover, Sandi Lee, Kathryn Weber, Kathleen Sheel and Kathleen Palmer, the Herald reports.
Judge Michael Bumgartner told Erickson he was “appalled and ashamed that the community could rally around, in this case, you,” according to the Herald.
“What you did was a jab in the eye with a sharp stick to every parent who trusts a teacher,” he said shortly before sentencing Erickson to 15-30 years in prison.
I would not want those teachers who supported this creep teaching my children.
Liberals just disgust me!
“Neal made a mistake,” teacher Sally Campbell wrote to the judge, according to the Ogemaw County Herald. “He allowed a mutual friendship to develop into much more. He realized his mistake and ended it years before someone anonymously sent something in to the authorities which began this legal process.”
The whole, “they got away with it at the time” defense...
Oh so a Nazi who worked at Auschwitz who was able to flee to Argentina shouldn’t be persecuted because he was able to escape justice for a few years...
Braindead stupid Lie-beral thinking!
I say they should fry the bastard!
This story was just awful Fortunately the judge used his common sense and this db will be spending nights with bubba. Hope he enjoys it
All of them should forfeit their jobs as sex predator promoters.
I’m pretty sure that no one this thread is surprised that the teachers are supporting thin guy. After all, there isn’t anything wrong with pedophilia. /sar
50 shades of Neal
their jobs are safe, the school board said so
I’m sure he apologizes to “anyone who might have been offended”
Alas, Brave New Babylon.
Won’t be long now.
I’m sure and they all get glowing recommendations added to their files.
Beyond sick. How old was the boy?
They’re getting ridiculous with the open hypocrisy. This same bunch would have nailed a priest to the wall for the same thing-rightfully so, if he was convicted-but when it’s one of their own, they have no shame in asking for leniency, and leniency to an absurd degree. Everybody on the left is just the same in having this hypocrisy, no matter what the topic.
He was 14 in 2006.
“Neal has pled (sic) guilty for his one criminal offense but he is not a predator,” teacher Harriett Coe wrote, according to the Herald. “This was an isolated incident. He understands the severity of his action and is sincere in his desire to make amends. He has been candid and conveyed his action to his family, friends and co-workers.”
If it took a few years to find out this guy was molesting a kid, how do we know that there have been others in the past or another one between the previous kid and now?
Did he admit to his crime out of the blue or was he forced to admit to it? Not that it matters either way because he should burn in hell for what he has done.
Looks like they support the gay pedophile. No way this was a “one time mistake.”
In before the pervert loving creeps who defend the behavior of the Catholic Church when it exhibits identical behavior chime in to say how terrible this is.
This is bad every time. No matter who does it.
They all need millstones.
I suspect the sentence was a a reflection of the judge’s outrage at the support shown the offender. Good for the judge.
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