Montana teacher -- initially given 31 days in rape of student -- now gets 10 years

[theHandpuppet]

Montana teacher -- initially given 31 days in rape of student -- now gets 10 years
By Joshua Berlinger and Jack Hannah, CNN
Sat September 27, 2014

Billings, Montana (CNN) -- Fighting back tears, Auliea Hanlon sat on the witness stand in a Montana courtroom, just feet away from the man who pleaded guilty to raping her 14-year-old daughter -- and initially received a sentence that required him to serve just 31 days in prison.

"Here we are -- six, seven years later, still waiting for justice," she said, according to video of the sentencing from CNN affiliate KTVQ. "He knew what he was doing. He knew what was going to happen to her."...

...Stacey Dean Rambold was accused of raping Cherice Moralez, a freshman in his business class at Billings Senior High, in 2007.

Moralez committed suicide in 2010, before the case went to trial and before she reached her 17th birthday....

MORE at http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/26/justice/montana-rape-sentence/index.html?hpt=hp_t4

[sheshe2]

1. It's "the right kind of sentence"? Dear gawd!

Montana judge defends former teacher's one-month sentence for rape of teen

A Montana judge is defending his decision to sentence a former teacher to 31 days in jail for raping a 14-year-old student.

Judge G. Todd Baugh said he gave 47-year-old Stacey Dean Rambold "the right kind of sentence:" 31 days in jail and more than 14 years on probation.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/02/justice/montana-rape-judge/index.html

The angels weep at the injustice, theHandpuppet.

So glad he is now serving time, yet it will never bring back Cherice Moralez.

[Enthusiast]

2. I am glad to hear it.

[gollygee]

3. So heartbreaking.

I'm glad he finally got a reasonable prison sentence.

[mercuryblues]

4. It still

pisses me off that there had to be a national outcry for his victim's family to get some sort of justice. It still pisses me off that the judge stands by his ruling. It pisses me off that the judge is allowed to retire, when he should have been thrown off the bench in disgrace.

Cherice may have committed suicide, but the rapist surely murdered her. In 10 years he will be a free man, his victim still dead and her family will still be in living hell.