It's good to be rich
 

You can get away with anything.

A Superior Court judge who sentenced a wealthy du Pont heir to probation for raping his 3-year-old daughter noted in her order that he "will not fare well" in prison and needed treatment instead of time behind bars, court records show.

Judge said du Pont heir 'will not fare well' in prison

The defense lawyers' fawning over the judge's insanity is enough to make me puke.

I say stick him in with the gen pop and let them have their way with his nether regions.

Messed up....and messed up family....

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/10/sports/olympics/10dupont.html?_r=0

Makes me want to puke!

I hope this isn't some sick April Fools day joke.

LET's look at the judge too! If true, perhaps its time Delaware examines this superior court judge. Maybe she's a sicko as well. Remove her from position, examine her household and behavior.

this has to be an April fools day thing right?

Geez the judge looks like Sibelius....

biblical plagues are not severe enough for that defendant and judge.
i would think pliers and a blowtorch are more in order.

Similiar "life-form" was put in general population down here is Australia, ended up in the prison hospital having the barbed-wire catheter removed.

Damn, where's the morphine, sure I had it a moment ago, hang on, I'll go look for it.........








Crickets

The Chief Public Defender for the state of Delaware quoted in the article is an old friend of mine. Even though he's a defense lawyer, he thought the judge's rationale for sparing this guy prison was weird.

And as much as my gut reaction is to want to stomp someone like this to death, there is no denying that people like this are truly sick. Who could harm a small child like that??

That defendant.

Ever read the book "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell? Fascinating read. Well just "looking" at the two scumbags (judge & defendant) confirms his theory. They both deserve the judgement coming their way.

Not "sick". Fundamentally broken. People like this don't "get well". Better just to put them down and move on.

Not a "child".....read the story......children.....both his......Girl 3 and Boy 1.5 Abused them over a two year period. Richards, who is unemployed and supported by a trust fund, owns a 5,800-square-foot mansion that he was sentenced to house arrest in. He does have to report to a probation officer once a month. So he's suffering a lot.

Maybe some of the general population can go visit on a work release to clean his house for him.

I never said that they could get well. I'm not an expert but from what little I've read, it seems to be extremely difficult to impossible to change that mental illness.

Don't confuse my response with sympathy for the guy, I have none. But these people are definitely sick. I could not imagine abusing a child in a million years, why would someone want to do that?

Sorry - didn't mean to imply you had any sympathy for Richards. I just have a thing for precise language. 'Sick' generally implies a temporary state that is the opposite of 'well' (modern epithets aside).

I think if we stop softening our language about evil men like Richards, judges like Jurden will be less able to get away with tragic decisions like the one she did. "He won't fare well," is a mealy-mouthed excuse for her stupidity.

She needs to say what she means, and mean what she says.

That judge Jurden is just as guilty. Throw her in the pen too! NO EXCUSE. What's the message she's sending here? The most precious things in life and innocent children... babies in this case! Unimaginable tragic. I would hope the people of CT wake up, hammer down and make some noise about the case.

I would sure love to see the FBI do a through financial background check on that judge.

Just how tough is it for a very rich person to set up a secret off-shore bank account in the Judges name. Maybe a big sack of cash or diamonds. Something helped her to decide to let that scum bag live in splendor at his mansion instead of jail.