Former Seminole County Assistant State Attorney has no prison time or registration for 2 felony sex charges
A former Seminole County Assistant State Attorney will avoid prison for having sex with a 17-year-old girl. Additionally, he will NOT have to register as a sex offender, and his only punishment will be serving two years on community control and eight on probation.
How many people on the highly punitive registry in Florida for life, who had consensual sex with a 17-year-old, would trade more time in prison just to have their name removed from the registry? And that was for consensual sex. This victim claimed rape.
There are registrants who cannot find a decent-paying job, who cannot live in their family home, who have to hand a branded driver’s license over for others to see, whose online reputation has been destroyed, who cannot attend their grandchild’s school graduation, and who quite possibly will be banished for life by society unless laws are made based on research findings, while an assistant state attorney receives basically a slap on the hand.
This is a result of living in Florida; in New York state, the age of consent is 17.
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I guess my previous comment was too blunt for FAC to publish it here. Well, maybe just editing it a bit would have sufficed since I made some very good points in it.
In August 1997 (thank God before October 1, 1997 as I may have some future hope if our ex post facto case ever wins), I had a very brief consensual relationship with a 17-year old when I was 25 years old. His mother pressured the Broward County State Attorney’s Office to prosecute and after six months of constant hounding, they relented.
I was adjudicated guilty of F.S. 794.05(1) (Unlawful Sexual Activity with a Minor 16-17 y/o), not some other non-sex offense, and received almost the same sentence as this prosecutor: 2 years of community control + 10 years of sex offender probation. Of course, I had to complete sex offender probation, not regular probation and I have no guarantee of ever being relieved of having to register as a sex offender in Florida, although in 9 more years I can petition to be removed. My offense was not aggravated in any way. I was a 25 year-old college student, not a 43 year-old prosecutor. I had never been arrested for anything before, and have not been since.
Where was my cushy plea deal? I was given no deal by the state at all. I pled guilty and was at the mercy of the court.
People should protest in front of his house until he gets sick of it and has to move. The level of corruption and hypocrisy knows no end in FL.
Apparently, he is on Community Control and has Special Conditions…we do not know what the Special Conditions are?!? DID HE GET THE ‘666’ Ankle Bracelet….I do not think so…..We do not know….since he left Court ASAP, I do not think the ‘666’ was put on him!
SO he gets 2 Years Community Control and 8 years probation….Is the Entire 10 years with ‘SPECIAL CONDITIONS’?!?!?
HYPOCRISY NEVER EVER ENDS!
It just goes to show you, that a lot of times the so-called judges of the law hold the average citizen to a higher standard than those who are supposed to uphold the law, when it should be the other way around. This isn’t just an outrage, it’s a kick in the face of justice!!
Just for context, they gave me prison time and 15 years S.O. probation for the same charge.
I wish nothing but the worst for this hypocrite scumbag.
Karma is a bitch buddy!