Karen Richards Must Go

FortWayneNews highlights yet another example of our county prosecutor handing out the most lenient plea bargain possible for a child molester:

A woman who knew Martin told authorities she’d learned he had invited her young daughters to perform sex acts with him and had touched them inappropriately on several occasions, a probable cause affidavit said.

As part of a plea agreement, Martin pleaded guilty to one count each of child molesting and child solicitation. The agreement calls for him to serve four years on probation.

Probation? Are you kidding me? As I've said before if I were to make a list that ranks the most heinous crimes then child molesting would be near the top. Yet in this county we repeatedly slap these people on the wrist and send them back into our community. I'm sure if this guy would've had some sort of illegal narcotic on him then he would've found his way to slammer quickly - where are our priorities?

Are county voters going to continue to tolerate this? Have party politics taken over so much that no other Republican will challenge Richards? Is this the best our community can offer? Karen Richards must go...

Allen County Prosecutor's Office Attacks Victim of Sexual Predator

Readers might remember my recent post about a convicted child molester receiving extremely lenient treatment from the Allen County prosecutor despite allegedly beating, kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman. In the original story, I was outraged that this scumbag might only receive a 5 year sentence but now it's official and he's only getting a 2 year sentence which means he'll likely be out of jail before this time next year. I wish I could say I was surprised but I'm not. This prosecutor refuses to protect this community by continuing to give sexual predators, including child molesters, the most lenient sentences imaginable.

Now, the prosecutor's office has taken to publicly attacking the victims of the very scumbags they continue to put back on our streets:

After the plea agreement was reached this month, the woman wrote to the court and said she was ashamed of the prosecution for offering such a deal to Meyer, Speith said.

But Speith said she is ashamed of someone who would levy such serious charges against another person, leading to that person being arrested and then not participate in the investigation.

Did it ever occur to Ms Speith that perhaps the victim doesn't trust local prosecutors to protect her from future attacks? Did it every occur to her that the victim might have had a legitimate reason for skipping the depositions? Did they even bother to investigate that? I suppose it's easier to just make a deal and get that case file off her desk.

But publicly ridiculing the victim of a convicted child molester? Even I never thought Karen Richards' office would stoop that low...

Allen County Prosecutor Karen Richards is a Disgrace

AWB has a post linking to a story about a convicted child molester that is being given a slap on the wrist despite allegedly beating, kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman:

Prosecutors dropped two counts of criminal deviate conduct, a count of attempted rape, a felony count of battery, a count of criminal confinement and a count of being a repeat sexual offender. The reason wasn't immediately clear.

Meyer could now spend up to five years in prison, a fraction of the up to 81 years he originally faced. Police arrested Meyer because a woman claimed he hit her at an undisclosed home and told her “Your boyfriend gave me permission to do what I want,” according to court records. The woman told police Meyer then sexually assaulted her, threatened to kill her, beat her, tried to rape her and held her captive for nearly an hour and a half, according to court documents.

“I thought I was going to die,” the woman had told police.

The Allen County Prosecutor, Karen Richards, is ultimately responsible for this lack of justice. This is just another example of our criminal justice system not taking care of these scumbags. Now this guy will be free in two a half years to continue to torment the people of this community. When will the sheeple demand justice? Is there ANY crime that this crop of prosecutors won't give the most lenient sentence to?

Disgraceful...