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uponit7771

(90,335 posts)
Thu Jun 20, 2019, 04:25 AM Jun 2019

Man rapes 11-Year-Old Girl Gets 5 Years Probation

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/06/235704/joseph-meili-missouri-child-molestation-probation-judge-calvin-holden?utm_medium=post&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR1_98aPSnUtJ8wOVwmz9-fF7VVjfzdI6OYjf5AuT8ixzBOUPMtF8YF3lT0

Man rapes 11-Year-Old Girl Gets 5 Years Probation

Holden has been criticized in the past for being too lenient in his sentencing of men who commit crimes against children. In 2016, the judge sentenced Joseph Presley, 23, to five years probation and a month in Greene County Jail for sexually abusing an 8-year-old boy he babysat. A concerned citizen created a Change.org petition to remove Holden from his position following this sentencing, which critics compared to the Brock Turner case, in which Judge Aaron Persky handed Turner, who was caught sexually assaulting a barely conscious woman, a sympathetic, six-month jail sentence.


Somethings wrong with this judge
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Man rapes 11-Year-Old Girl Gets 5 Years Probation (Original Post) uponit7771 Jun 2019 OP
Check that judge's computer... Dennis Donovan Jun 2019 #1
Please trim links so there is no FACEBOOK crap; cut question mark & beyond Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2019 #2
Missouri white man (surprised?). Article doesn't tell what we really need to know. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2019 #3
I would put good money on it that he has, don't know what has happened to Missouri uponit7771 Jun 2019 #4

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,988 posts)
2. Please trim links so there is no FACEBOOK crap; cut question mark & beyond
Thu Jun 20, 2019, 05:55 AM
Jun 2019

If you don't, then Facebook knows everyone's DU identity who follows your link, due to "cooperating third parties with whom we have a business relationship" or some such in their privacy notice.

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/06/235704/joseph-meili-missouri-child-molestation-probation-judge-calvin-holden

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,988 posts)
3. Missouri white man (surprised?). Article doesn't tell what we really need to know.
Thu Jun 20, 2019, 06:00 AM
Jun 2019

Article focuses on a couple other lenient sentences.

What I would like to know is if the judge has been harsh on African-Americans.

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