The Big Guy gets some major dump love, lights a big bonfire:
The link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141058884The OP:
Omaha Steve (48,828 posts)
Mechanicville child pornographer gets lifetime sentence
Source: Times Union
By Brittany Horn
A Mechanicville man will likely spend the rest of his life in prison following his sentencing on Friday for sexually abusing and photographing two young girls under his care.
Robert V. McLaughlin, 58, received the maximum 60-year sentence for manipulating a 7-year-old girl and an 8-year-old girl whom he babysat between 2012 and 2014 to engage in sexually explicit conduct so he could produce child pornography, according to court documents. Federal Judge Mae D'Agostino ruled that should McLaughlin ever be released from prison — which is unlikely given his age — he will be under supervised release for his lifetime.
One of the young girl's mothers begged the court to impose the greatest sentencing possible in a letter submitted by the prosecutor. She said that as a mother, she felt she had failed her daughter in the worst way possible by not seeing the abuse sooner and protecting her from McLaughlin.
"I don't want her to go through life looking over her shoulder wondering if she'll see him or run into him out in public, because this is something that she is very scared of," the mother said. "I want justice for my little girl. Please help me. I failed when I let down my guard at protecting her before, but you can protect her now."
FULL story at link.
Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Mechanicville-child-pornographer-gets-lifetime-6179165.php
About F---ing time!!!
He is going to be so loved in prison. That is a prison taboo. It could have been their family!
On to the comments...
FLPanhandle (3,943 posts)
1. Waiting for some here to complain the sentence was "too harsh"
And that life sentences are cruel,and he should be eligible for rehabilitation and parole after a little while, etc.
There are always some regardless of the crime committed.
Myself: I hope he gets appropriate treatment from the other prisoners and never sees life outside of a prison again.
Alert!!!
wryter2000 (34,093 posts)
2. Someone will do exactly that.
Just like for the poor guy who ran a revenge porn site.
Moling poorly.
cstanleytech (8,176 posts)
3. Hmmm I'm waiting for the hypocrites who claim to be anti death penalty to chime in
that he should be shot and yes I have seen people do that here on the DU.
The dump is turning down right conservative?
Man from Pickens (1,321 posts)
8. if you can't be anti-death penalty in a hard case like this
then you're not really anti-death penalty.
I don't support the death penalty in this case, or any other.
Giving that power to the government has proven to be a terrible mistake, and this case doesn't change that.
However, if some private citizen should take matters into his own hands and I ended up on the jury, I'd acquit.
Wait for it...
Orrex (44,680 posts)
14. "I'd acquit."
Why?
Here we go!!!
Man from Pickens (1,321 posts)
15. justifiable
citizen juries are the least appreciated branch of government, yet they do still have the power to do this
Orrex (44,680 posts)
17. Justifiable how?
You're not talking about a relative of the victims; you expressly identified "some private citizen." By what right does that person get to kill another person with impunity?
In other words, although you nominally oppose the state's use of capital punishment, you endorse vigilante murder.
Orrex (44,680 posts)
65. Regardless, you endorse vigilante murder
As long as someone is willing to risk an unsympathetic jury, murder is just dandy.
I don't see how that's morally superior to executions performed by the state.
Man from Pickens (1,321 posts)
67. You tell me
Man finds out his kid got raped, and there is no doubt as to the rapist. Kills him, gets sent to trial for murder.
You're on the jury. Those are the facts laid out before you. Would you send him to prison?
I already explained how it's morally superior to executions performed by the state. The state has demonstrated that it is racist and bigoted against the poor, that it can conspire to hide the truth at zero risk to the conspirators, and that it has repeatedly and knowingly put to death innocent men.
If those are moral non-factors to you, then I eschew your morality.
Beat down!!!
NuclearDem (11,442 posts)
22. So you're not anti-death penalty then.
You're just in favor of changing who carries it out.
Man from Pickens (1,321 posts)
24. you can interpret it that way if you please
when it comes to legislation I am 100% anti-death-penalty
If a man wants to blow the brains out of his kid's rapist, I'll not tell him he's wrong to do so.
When the state does it, they put people to death when they know he didn't even commit the crime, and have hidden the evidence that he's innocent from the courts and from his lawyer.
Difference between these situations is night and day to me, should be to you too.
NuclearDem (11,442 posts)
25. Ah, so in addition to kinda-not-actually-anti-death penalty
you're against the entire concept of a criminal justice system.
Enjoy your vigilante paradise.
Nuke Dem apparently has no children.
Man from Pickens (1,321 posts)
33. Not at all
I fully support a criminal justice system.
Perhaps in your fantasy world there's no discretion on the part of a jury, but in the real world there is.
The response?
NuclearDem (11,442 posts)
37. No, clearly you don't.
What you call discretion is actually nullification. How you can advocate that and still claim to be in favor of a criminal justice system confounds me.
Fightin words?
Man from Pickens (1,321 posts)
41. OK I will now treat you like you treat me
After your dogged persistence it appears perfectly reasonable to derive from your posts that you support a racist system of institutionalized murder against the poor and minorities, despite the mountains of evidence that many of the people put to death are innocent of the charges against them and that prosecutors routinely withhold that information from courts and juries.
You're on the record supporting aggressive wars and now the death penalty. Any other Democratic positions you completely repudiate in favor of their GOP alternatives?
Ouch!!!
NuclearDem (11,442 posts)
43. Ah, that nonsense again.
Since you're referring to my supposed support for the bombing of Syria after the gas attack...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023563679#post1
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023586419#post2
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023542545#post7
Wait... I thought the dummies say we should stay out of conflicts?
Man from Pickens (1,321 posts)
46. I see you don't dispute the charge
Now it is clear that you unrepentantly support aggressive wars in the Middle East, and all it takes is a little bit of war propaganda which you willingly swallow whole, not a whit differently than the neocons did in lying us into the war in Iraq.
I'll give you credit for owning up to it.
Game, set and match to Pickens!
Scootaloo (16,510 posts)
13. What do you mean "appropriate treatment from other prisoners," exactly?
I want specifics, what are you angling for here?
NuclearDem (11,442 posts)
23. Hooray prison rape!
Something tells me NukeDem did some prison time and was Bubba and Tyrone's play toy.
FLPanhandle (3,943 posts)
29. You can shed some tears over him if you want
I wont'
NuclearDem (11,442 posts)
30. Oh that tired old canard.
Could you provide a list of who you think deserves rape?
Ummm.... child molesters?
FLPanhandle (3,943 posts)
32. Child rapists deserve whatever they get
There, that's my list.
As for your tired old sympathy, tell me why you disagree
NuclearDem (11,442 posts)
38. Being against rape means being against all forms of rape, against all victims.
It's never acceptable.
Oh yes it is, dummie. Child molesters and rapists are at the top of the acceptable list in my book.
This is a pretty big bonfire.
