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On the front page of the paper yesterday is another CSC (Criminal Sexual Assualt) sentencing, a reduced charge and I wonder what is going on behind the scenes.

The story kept coming back to me…and many thoughts came to mind.

First of all, I am happy to see he was caught at 25, sad that he only got one year for having intercourse with a child 15 to 20 times.  It is insane…how there is not an outcry on the courthouse steps is beyond what a mind can hold.  Yet this child who spoke up, even if it was years later, still has labeled this man, so others can be aware.

What this shows is how upside down our justice system is that he can plea bargain his way down to one year, with time served…about 100 days left on his sentence…for multiple rapes of a CHILD.

How, How, How did we as a society get here?

What most fail to recognize is what signals this sends out to other victims, that your rape, molestation isn't 'bad' enough…that you go through the whole trial and end up with a 100 day sentence.

What I would like the victims to know though, it is not for naught.

You are shedding light upon a very sick person. You have warned others.  You have found your voice.  You can now begin to upright your world, even if the world at large is upside down.

I have a mind to write a letter to the paper…to congratulate this child.  To show there is someone in society that feels that even if justice wasn't served, she did her part.

Her part isn't in question or should not be.  It is the folks in the courts who play with her history…her truth. Turning it around until it has a sentence attached to it that the defense can live with.

If, we started actually trying these guys on the actual act, and holding them accountable and then having them serve the correct jail time, I wonder if the numbers of child abuse would fall?

What we also all have to keep in mind, EVEN IF, the courts reduce the crime today, it Doesn't change how it originally happened. It doesn't make the intercourse a fondle or a touch.  It doesn't reduce the number of times he raped her.  Nothing changes, but the words on the paper.

We once again, have to keep with reality and in doing so, will support the child.

I don't know this girl, but wish her strength, and courage as she walks away from this trial.  She did her best…and the rest did a bit over nothing.