Backfire
“Have as much mercy for the rapist as he did for me that night,” Austin James Wilkerson’s victim told the court. Judge Patrick Butler sentenced Wilkerson for sexually assaulting her when she was drunk and helpless: two years in the county jail with a work-release program, plus 20 years of probation. That was at least the second time this year a Boulder, Colo., judge gave a rapist a short jail term instead of prison. The apparent reason: a 1998 Colorado law designed to protect society from sex offenders by making them get treatment before they leave prison. Now, once they go into prison, they can’t get out unless they’ve completed treatment and applied for parole. “It’s either probation or a life sentence,” said one Boulder defense attorney. Butler mentioned the law when explaining his decision. (AC/Boulder Daily Camera) ...When courts can’t do justice, they don’t.Original Publication Date: 14 August 2016
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.
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