L.A. Times, 4/8/05
An ex-convict who pleaded no contest to sexually abusing his daughter was sentenced in Harlingen to 320 hours of community service crocheting.
The charges against Robert Wayne Thompson surfaced during a dispute over custody of the child, when Thompson's ex-wife accused him of sexually abusing the 8-year-0ld and filed civil and criminal complaints against him.
After the girl told a judge in the civil case that her mother had told her to say Thompson abused her, state District Judge Rose Guerra Reyna, in the criminal case agreed to a plea bargain that required Thompson to register as a sex offender, be under probation, and spend 320 hours crocheting afghans.
An ex-convict who pleaded no contest to sexually abusing his daughter was sentenced in Harlingen to 320 hours of community service crocheting.
The charges against Robert Wayne Thompson surfaced during a dispute over custody of the child, when Thompson's ex-wife accused him of sexually abusing the 8-year-0ld and filed civil and criminal complaints against him.
After the girl told a judge in the civil case that her mother had told her to say Thompson abused her, state District Judge Rose Guerra Reyna, in the criminal case agreed to a plea bargain that required Thompson to register as a sex offender, be under probation, and spend 320 hours crocheting afghans.
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So there are many things wrong with this case. Let me list a few that I found..
- setting a precident that 320 hours of arts and crafts for a sex offence that could be used in another case.
- A mother pitting her daughter against her father for custody and traumatizing her by forcing her to lie on the stand is pretty awful. If thats what happened. Their are a many reasons why this girl would have lied either about the abuse or about being forced to lie. Whether or not this girl was abused could still be truly unknown.
- IF this girl wasn't abused, forcing this man who is already an ex-con to register as a sex offender leaves his job option pretty low.
Anything else wrong with this picture?
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