Post by Rolling Thunder on Jan 10, 2017 17:24:57 GMT -5
Criminal charges, yes.
But civil charges... To send a message to pedophiles...
A Dauphin County jury on Tuesday ordered an HIV-positive child rapist to pay $88 million in damages to a 6-year-old boy he filmed himself raping.
The verdict, delivered at the end of a one-day trial, is one of the largest, if not the largest to be handed down in Dauphin County.
Yet the case wasn't about child molester Ira Task's ability to pay such a huge amount, said Benjamin Andreozzi, one of the attorney's who filed the lawsuit on the boy's behalf.
"We asked the jurors to send a message of deterrence," Andreozzi said. "We told them that if they sent a loud message that it might deter one more person from abusing a child."
I really doubt this would make a pedophile think twice about committing these type of crimes. Seems like legal wiffle ball to me. Just chair him up.
www.google.com/amp/www.pennlive.com/articles/19950233/record_verdict_jury_orders_chi.amp
But civil charges... To send a message to pedophiles...
A Dauphin County jury on Tuesday ordered an HIV-positive child rapist to pay $88 million in damages to a 6-year-old boy he filmed himself raping.
The verdict, delivered at the end of a one-day trial, is one of the largest, if not the largest to be handed down in Dauphin County.
Yet the case wasn't about child molester Ira Task's ability to pay such a huge amount, said Benjamin Andreozzi, one of the attorney's who filed the lawsuit on the boy's behalf.
"We asked the jurors to send a message of deterrence," Andreozzi said. "We told them that if they sent a loud message that it might deter one more person from abusing a child."
I really doubt this would make a pedophile think twice about committing these type of crimes. Seems like legal wiffle ball to me. Just chair him up.
www.google.com/amp/www.pennlive.com/articles/19950233/record_verdict_jury_orders_chi.amp
