The rapist's age and previously clean record led the judge to hand down the lightest sentence possible.
A judge has received ‘numerous vitriolic’ phone calls after he let a child rapist go free.
Piche raped a girl, 14, at his home in Watertown, New York, last summer and he admitted the crime in February. He had met her while working and plied her with alcohol. Chelsea Miller, of the New York State Coalition Against Sexual Assault, said based on the mother’s statement, it’s possible that the judge and court officials didn’t understand the harm the survivor experienced.She said: ‘Unfortunately, this can discourage survivors who see jail or prison time as a form of accountability.’– the lowest of three categories based on the risk of re-offending.
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