Reply #78: The witness tampering was a second hand account

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from another girl that was allegedly asked by the teacher to convince the victim to drop the case. But even according to the news story the bribery charge was only a fine, and had nothing to do with the jail time. The sexual assault charge carried with it a max 10 year sentence for 4 counts. The jury wanted to give the man 10 years for each count, but the judge knocked 10 years off the final sentence. This case has every thing to do with the religious nuts in this country that have demanded state legislatures increase penalties and punishments for sex crimes. Like, for example, this 18 year girl. This country has always been obsessed with sex. Some people, sadly even most adults, don't know how to deal with the discussion of sex, especially as it pertains to their kids. So like a lot of other issues Americans tend to want to avoid, they try and get them legislated out of their lives as much as they possibly can. The religious right in this country has been the willing go between helping to get tougher sentences passed on these kinds of cases. Because the adults in this country are mostly incapable of applying common sense to any problem, this is what we have ended up with in America.