From Bill O'Reilly's side of things March 19, 2006
The Most Dangerous States for KIDS For those of you who still believe in the Justice System in America is working consider the following. For three years 46 year-old Andrew Selva sexually brutalized two boys, ages 5 and 12, in a small town out side of Clumbus, Ohio. In a plea- bargain, Selva admitted to the courts that he raped two boys in a variety of ways. By all accounts, it was savage criminal activity. But when Selva appeared for sent- encing before Ohio Judge John Connor he recieved no prison time at all. Instead, Connor placed him on probation saying,"He's got a disease like I've got a disease. I don't know that prison would have helped, except for revenge, and revenge is not in the sentencing guidelines." What the sentencing guidelines did call for was a 10 year stretch in a state prison. But Connor believes he knows better; so it is probation for a child rapist. By the way, the "disease" Connor refrenced in his own case is apparently alcohol-related, the judge has at least two DUIs on his sheet. This kind of sentencing insanity is increasing across the country because many states,like Ohio, have no mandatory minimum prison terms for child predators and, as we all know, there is no shortage of looney judges like Connors. While some states have passed Jessicas Law, which harshly punishes child molesters, other states simply will not do anything. The following states are the most dangerous to a childs welfare. *Vermont *New York *Maryland *Massachsetts *Wyoming *Arkansa *Tennessee *Idaho *North Dakota Also, the states of Colorado, Wisconsin, Main, Kansas, and Montana have weak laws protecting children-but at least there are politicians in those states trying to change things. In Ohio case where the child rapist recieved parole, and in the Vermont case where the man who raped the little girl initially got 60 days, the three victims were poor children. Their parents had no money, no influence, and no hope of challenging the wicked judges. I submit those awful sentences would not have been handed down if the rapist had abused wealthy children. But be that as it may any state that will not severely punish an adult who rapes a child is a disgraceful state. And everybody living there should know it. www.creator.com Thanks Bill we couldn't have said it better for our state then you now have.