June 27, 2007
Do you hear that?
It's the sound of Winston Churchill, Rudyard Kipling and every British gentleman who believed there was something special about Great Britain, spinning in their graves.
Because the U.K. apparently has become the most inviting place on the planet for kiddie rapers.
A PEDOPHILE who raped a 10-year-old girl will be free in just four months after a British judge said his victim had "dressed provocatively".
Window cleaner Keith Fenn, 24, could have been jailed for life after twice attacking the girl in a riverside park.
Judge Julian Hall was at the centre of a storm over the "pathetic" sentence he imposed after hearing the girl had appeared much older than her age.
The same judge caused uproar earlier this year by setting free another paedophile and telling him to give his victim money "to buy a nice new bicycle".
In the latest case, Oxford Crown Court heard harrowing details of the assault on the 10-year-old. She was attacked in a park in South Oxfordshire by Fenn and his accomplice Darren Wright, 34, on October 14 last year.
Fenn removed all her clothes and raped her, then Wright took her to his home and sexually assaulted her.
Yet Judge Hall said the case was exceptional because the "young woman" had been wearing a frilly bra and thong.
The girl has been in local authority care since the age of four.
She was on her own when she met the pair in the street. They went to the park together. The judge said he faced a moral dilemma.
The court heard that the girl regularly wore make-up, strappy tops and jeans.
"It is quite clear she is a very disturbed child and a very needy child and she is a sexually precocious child. She liked to dress provocatively," the judge said.
"Did she look like she was 10? Certainly not. She looked 16."
He gave Fenn concurrent two-year and 18-month sentences but he will be free in just weeks after spending eight months in jail awaiting sentence.
Wright is a free man because he too had served eight months on remand.
Via Clayton Cramer, who notes that this is the progressive, liberal society that so many in the U.S. want to emulate.
I differ with Cramer to the extent that I think this speaks more to the disconnect between the public and the judiciary; decisions like this undermine the social compact wherein the people forego vigilante justice in return for some assuarance of impartial, fair and just punishment. More of this and the public begins to think there's little point in letting the police apprehend the suspect.
Posted by Mike Lief at June 27, 2007 07:10 AM
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The sad part about Cameron Diaz fashion faux pas is that her father was born in Cuba and was forced to come to the U.S., in part, due to the Maoist policies adopted by the Kastro regime.
Her choice of purse would be something akin to descendants of Holocaust survivors wearing Hitler t-shirts! What an idiot!
Posted by: EJ Acosta at June 27, 2007 10:26 AM