5 Years for Molesting 2 Children??? (1 Viewer)

[Boy_of_wonder75]

Former Catholic priest pleads guilty in St. Tammany juvenile molestation

Patrick Wattigny, a former Slidell Catholic priest accused in two separate child molestation cases on the north shore, pleaded guilty Wednesday afternoon and received five years behind bars.

www.nola.com

"Keller sentenced Wattigny to 15 years on each count, with the sentences to run concurrently. However, Keller suspended 10 years of each sentence. Wattigny will serve five years with five years' probation and must also register as a sex offender."

Unbelievable.

• Judge Keller is a member of Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church, Our Lady of the
  Lake Men’s Club and the Knights of Columbus.

 

[superchuck500]

Yeah that's pretty forked up

 

[boutrous]

Not enough years.

 

[NewOrleansFan]

Wow. Hopefully, he receives some jailhouse justice.

 

[Eeyore]

Former Catholic priest pleads guilty in St. Tammany juvenile molestation

Patrick Wattigny, a former Slidell Catholic priest accused in two separate child molestation cases on the north shore, pleaded guilty Wednesday afternoon and received five years behind bars.

www.nola.com

"Keller sentenced Wattigny to 15 years on each count, with the sentences to run concurrently. However, Keller suspended 10 years of each sentence. Wattigny will serve five years with five years' probation and must also register as a sex offender."

Unbelievable.

• Judge Keller is a member of Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church, Our Lady of the
  Lake Men’s Club and the Knights of Columbus.

I knew a guy who molested five kids. He got convicted. Did five years. Molested, at least, two more kids. Did another five years. Moved to a different state to avoid the three strikes penalty and did it again. Guess how long... Five years. I lost track after that.

 

[Nisey55]

"Justice" system

 

[rajncajn]

I knew a guy who molested five kids. He got convicted. Did five years. Molested, at least, two more kids. Did another five years. Moved to a different state to avoid the three strikes penalty and did it again. Guess how long... Five years. I lost track after that.

That's what I was wondering was how his sentence compared to other similar offenders. It's definitely not long enough for any offender, but rather than just blame the judge and his affiliations for commuting a hypothetically comparatively long sentence, maybe we should also be looking harder at the systems that allow for it.

 

[Eeyore]

That's what I was wondering was how his sentence compared to other similar offenders. It's definitely not long enough for any offender, but rather than just blame the judge and his affiliations for commuting a hypothetically comparatively long sentence, maybe we should also be looking harder at the systems that allow for it.

I'm of the opinion that you can't rehabilitate sex offenders.

Catch and release is too dangerous of a game to play for our society.

 

[rajncajn]

Meanwhile, California legislature fights over whether or not child sex traffickers and repeat offenders should recieve harsher sentences.

MSN

I read the full article and I still cannot comprehend the reasoning being used to oppose this measure. Overcrowding and racially disproportionate offenders is no reason whatsoever to let these people get off cheap. I agree that many of these offenders need more than just incarceration, but nothing should completely take the place of.

 

[rajncajn]

I'm of the opinion that you can't rehabilitate sex offenders.

Catch and release is too dangerous of a game to play for our society.

I would tend to agree, but also willing to admit I don't know everything on the subject. I know that, personally, I would NEVER trust a sex offender to not repeat, period. I think that it is a sickness. One that you may be able to mask or suppress, but also to which there is no cure.

 

[SWJJ]

the system is broken

 

[Semper]

I would tend to agree, but also willing to admit I don't know everything on the subject. I know that, personally, I would NEVER trust a sex offender to not repeat, period. I think that it is a sickness. One that you may be able to mask or suppress, but also to which there is no cure.

Starts with castration as far as I am concerned.

 

[Dago]

I agree that it's too short....I just find it odd that there wasn't any outrage over California releasing 7000 pedophiles in the past decade after only serving a few months

Report: Democrat-Run California Frees Thousands Of Pedophiles After Serving Less Than A Year | BIN: Black Information Network

Report: Democrat-Run California Frees Thousands Of Pedophiles After Serving Less Than A Year

www.binnews.com

More than 7,000 sex offenders were convicted of 'lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age' but were let out of prison the same year they were incarcerated, data from the California Megan's Law database says.

Others who committed some of the worst child sex crimes on the statute books served similarly short sentences, including 365 pedophiles convicted of continuous sexual abuse of a child who spent less than 12 months in prison, 39 cases of sodomy with a child under 16, and three cases of kidnapping a child under 14 'with intent to commit lewd or lascivious acts', according to the data…

One offender in the database is Reseda, resident Carlos Alexander Nahue, 48, who was convicted of 'continuous sexual abuse of a child' in 2015.

His Los Angeles court records say he was charged in October 2014 and pled no contest to the crime in January 2015 – but was sentenced to just two days in an LA county jail and five years of probation.

He now lives one block from Royal Montessori School daycare and three blocks from Reseda Elementary School, according to the Megan's Law database.

Noah Thomas Holt, from Watsonville in Santa Cruz County, was convicted in 2013 of lewd acts with an under-14-year-old, child pornography possession and indecent exposure.

The 31-year-old was convicted on a no contest plea in December 2013. But Megan's law data says he was released within a year, and according to his Facebook page he started a new job at manufacturing company Threshold Enterprises in Scotts Valley, California in 2014.

Holt has posted several pictures with a young girl on his Facebook page. He was also convicted of a DUI in 2017."

 

[Boy_of_wonder75]

I agree that it's too short....I just find it odd that there wasn't any outrage over California releasing 7000 pedophiles in the past decade after only serving a few months

Report: Democrat-Run California Frees Thousands Of Pedophiles After Serving Less Than A Year | BIN: Black Information Network

Report: Democrat-Run California Frees Thousands Of Pedophiles After Serving Less Than A Year

www.binnews.com

Didn't see it until you posted it. That's ludicrous

 

[Boy_of_wonder75]

That's what I was wondering was how his sentence compared to other similar offenders. It's definitely not long enough for any offender, but rather than just blame the judge and his affiliations for commuting a hypothetically comparatively long sentence, maybe we should also be looking harder at the systems that allow for it.

The same judge gave a harsher sentence for a lesser offense.

"Meanwhile, the statement from the victim who was not present alluded to how Keller recently gave 10 years in prison to a man who admitted to possessing and trading imagery depicting child abuse but was not accused of directly molesting a minor."

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www.theguardian.com