Federal agent gets probation for smelling girl’s panties.
Just goes to show that ANYONE can be a sex offender. Teachers, coaches, clergy and law enforcement officers!
What’s confusing is the judge cited his “work as a federal marshal” as a mitigating factor. Shouldn’t the fact that he’s been in a position of authority be an aggrevating factor?
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His position in law enforcement allowed him to walk away mostly unscathed. I don’t think anyone responding really thinks he should go to prison or be on the registry. Like me, they are angry that many on the registry committed similar or lesser acts and are crucified by law enforcement and general public. The inequities of what he was sentenced and what the average person is/was/would be sentenced is enraging. He will escalate without treatment. He got away with it. To get the same thrill he will have to take it a step further.
The judge didn’t do him any favors by not mandating therapy. I also have to question why any realtor would let a client just wander by himself in the home, but that’s irrelevant. Perhaps, he dazzled the agent by his law enforcement credentials. This whole scenario is a good example of the inequity of justice that occurs with these types of offenses.
This guy is obviously sick. He needs to be in a mental hospital. But not on a sor almost nobody does. He definitely does not need to be in law enforcement as many others that are there.
It’s troubling to think of how many other cops are out there with serious mental problems. We see examples in the news practically daily.
Talk about hypocrisy at its finest! If this guy was a regular citizen the court would’ve thrown him in prison and made him register him as a SO.
The fact that the judge didn’t do that tells me that she and everyone from the justice system truly understands the punitive aspect that Registrants go through…secretly.
In reality they won’t subject their own people the same sh!t Registrants are forced to put up. This just proves that they can’t take what they dish out.
I’ve been sitting here for 10 minutes trying to frame a response and I can’t. How the state could bargain down to
misdemeanor trespassing when the evidence is so blatant is mind boggling. He may or may not have any victims that he physically touched yet but that’s one of his next steps…. plus not knowing what was on his computer. This guy is a ticking time bomb and yet they are more worried about what restaurant my wife and I go to for dinner. My own grandchildren can’t stay overnight at my home and this guy will devolve into an even more dangerous predator.
It’s Texas, where those that everybody needs protection from are actually protected by the legal system, while they mislabel, prosecute, and impose harsh punishments on innocent people and others who are not real threats to anybody. It’s all about who you are, who you know, and most importantly: MONEY.
The case was prosecuted, and trial held in, Arizona. He is just allowed to serve his probation in Texas because that’s where lives now. At least that’s my understanding from the story.