LA: After admitting sex with 3 boys, substitute teacher spared jail and barred from class only two years
There is something wrong with the justice system when a female teacher gets probation and is only barred from teaching for two years. Had the teacher been male, I’ll bet he would have gotten 20 years for each victim.
Below is the story from USA Today:
After pleading guilty to having sex with three underage teenagers and sending lewd messages, a substitute teacher in Louisiana was spared jail and could even be headed back to the classroom, New Orlean’s station WDSU reports.
As part of a plea deal, 34-year-old Heidi Domangue Verrett pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor counts of carnal knowledge of a juvenile and one count of contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile. When she was arrested in 2016, the Terrebonne Parish instructor faced three felony charges, according to the report.
A district judge then suspended Verrett’s six-month jail term and sentenced the substitute teacher and teacher’s aide to two years of unsupervised probation and ordered her to pay $900 in fines, Houma Today reports. She did not have to register as a sex offender.
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Its not about what you did but rather what a prosecutor can prove. I’ve read they had a weak case elsewhere. Sometimes they settle for a conviction when they can’t hit y o u with the book.
95% of all guilty verdicts are the direct result of accepting a plea on a state level, 97.5% on the federal level.
Our Justice system thrives on plea bargaining rather than trials.
So yes, the prosecution is more than happy to offer you a plea, regardless of the evidence against you.
I remember reading where Supreme Court Justice Kennedy made his famous faux pas, passing along the canard that recidivism in sex offenders was “frightening and high”, but in another opinion I remember him remarking on something that was the truth – we no longer have a system of trial by one’s peers but a system of plea bargains. Prosecutors have forgotten their oaths of office to seek justice before everything. Now the focus is on their own careers and how to get up and over on the government dime. One does it by numbers of convictions – notches on their legal pistols – it’s all about the case you can build and it has nothing to do with guilt or innocence. As they did in my case, they will manufacture evidence if they don’t have any. In the demographic where I was convicted, juries are like sheep and the US attorney or your prosecutor is the absolute Shepherd. This is because that US attorney represents the great and good government that allowed them in from Cuba to start the process of becoming legal citizens. Cuban refugees understand what happens when one’s government can come down hard on you. If you’re on a jury – (doing your duty like a good American citizen) – and you vote the way the government doesn’t want you to, you could wind up on their shit list and then bad things can happen to you from right out of the blue. Most of the Cuban Mariel boat – lift crowd had this principle instilled in them from a very early age. This is the demographic that’s most prevalent in South Florida. Most people going to trial there for anything lose in the courts – unless of course they have bucket loads and boatloads of money to lawyer up properly. Like Geoffrey Epstein – whose guilt was overwhelming, but got just a slap on the wrist, or William Kennedy Smith who was acquitted. The United States criminal justice system needs a complete overhaul and rebuild. We were on the way to that under Carter until Ronald Reagan got in and scotched the whole process.
I was told 20 times over that no evidence was needed. The only evidence was the teenagers word. Thats what my attorney told me over and over. So is it my understanding that a teenagers word is considered the proof only in sex offense cases??
Very scary the power given to kids. I can only imagine the lives ruined bc a child was convinced to make up a story about Dad so Mom could get revenge and vice versa.
Finally, a judge who “gets it”. The criminal justice system needs to clone this judge and get those clones out to every judicial district in the land and replace those currently sitting on the Supreme Court.
Pubescent girls and boys should be considered as adults for consenting sexual behavior since they are often the ones that instigate it with older adults.
Good Day…I do not think that one can ‘COMPARE’ this case or any other cases…every case is unique EXCEPT for those in the State of Florida-everyone gets the book tossed at them and they throw away the key for 10, 20-plus then give u another 10 on the outside-that is Florida-CRIME IS COMMERCE!-…Except for the EPSTEIN CASE-that is FEDERAL FRAUD-only SO that got a County Jail Sentence with a 6 day work release at 12 hours a day…able to sit in a AC office with his door closed while he entertained people all day long…now that is a SWEET ASS DEAL…is it not?…google, ‘Perverted Justice’-Julie Brown, Miami Herald!
make it a great day!
I am not against the female teacher receiving a light sentence. Rather I am for her male counterparts to also receive such a sentence. The world is a different place via the information age and teens aren’t like those in yester-year.
And unsupervised probation too. What a deal.
is it possible this judge has a hard on for the injustices of the SOR maybe he could be friend or fowl to the cause