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theHandpuppet

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Sun Sep 28, 2014, 10:49 PM Sep 2014

Montana teacher -- initially given 31 days in rape of student -- now gets 10 years [View all]

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
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It's "the right kind of sentence"? Dear gawd! sheshe2 Sep 2014 #1
I am glad to hear it. Enthusiast Sep 2014 #2
So heartbreaking. gollygee Sep 2014 #3
It still mercuryblues Sep 2014 #4
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