Judge Sentences Serial Rapist to Mere 60 Days Jail Time


By Jim Kouri
(AXcess News) New York - A Vermont judge sentenced a man who
repeatedly raped a 6-year old girl for four years to a jail term of
60 days, shocking the entire city of Burlington.


Mark Hulett, who admitted to repeatedly sexually abused a child
over a four-year period, got a slap on the wrist in a Vermont
courtroom this week and will be free to walk the streets in as few
as 60 days, according to the Burlington Free Press.
He sexually assaulted the girl for years, beginning when she was
only 6 until she was 10, according to the prosecutor. The
prosecution wanted at least an eight year sentence, and says he
could have received life in prison.
However, Corrections Department officials said they were unable
to provide psychiatric or psychological treatment to Hulett in
jail.

Judge Edward Cashman then decided to set the jail term at a
minimum of 60 days.
Judge Cashman defended his ruling by saying that without
treatment, a long jail term would only harden Hulett and make him
more dangerous when he is released. He seemed to feel that decision
would keep society safer from this offender's sexual deviancy in
the long run.
"This judge has got to go.

It's appalling that he's so concerned
over the treatment of a sexual predator who sexually assaulted a
little girl over and over and over again," says former New York
City Police Department sex crimes detective Sid Francis, who now
runs a private detective agency.
"The people of Vermont have got to dump this judge. He's
dangerous," added the decorated cop.
Numerous studies on rehabilitation of sexual predators --
especially child predators -- strongly suggested that sex offenders
very rarely get rehabilitated.


In a previous case, Judge Cashman threw out a drunk driving
charge on an alleged technicality, prompting the prosecutors to
request such cases not go before Judge Cashman.
Cashman claims punishment doesn't work. But critics say he's
supposed to apply the law, not base decisions on his personal
views.

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