“A Delaware man convicted of raping his three-year-old daughter only faced probation after a state Superior Court judge ruled he “will not fare well” in prison.
In her decision, Judge Jan Jurden suggested Robert H. Richards IV would benefit more from treatment. Richards, who was charged with fourth-degree rape in 2009, is an unemployed heir living off his trust fund. The light sentence has only became public as the result of a subsequent lawsuit filed by his ex-wife, which charges that he penetrated his daughter with his fingers while masturbating, and subsequently assaulted his son as well.
Richards is the great grandson of du Pont family patriarch Irenee du Pont, a chemical baron.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
*Read more here from Ashley Alman / The Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/30/robert-richards-rape_n_5060386.html
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So how do we fix this?
Ah, the disturbing privileges of being rich and the judicial system they give reach-arounds to.