Voyager wrote:What the hell is wrong with this picture?Lawmakers question 1-year sentence for man convicted of raping 4-year-old girl
By Associated Press
1:16 PM CDT, June 13, 2009
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Two state lawmakers are questioning a plea agreement that will allow a man to serve only one year in jail on a conviction for raping and sodomizing a 4-year-old girl over a 4-month period of time.
Nineteen of the 20 years of a sentence against 64-year-old David Harold Earls were suspended as part of the plea agreement reached with Pittsburg County prosecutors.
State Reps. Mike Ritze, R-Broken Arrow, and Mike Reynolds, R-Oklahoma City, have sought removal proceedings against Judge Thomas Bartheld for approving the plea deal.
District Attorney Jim Bob Miller says prosecutors did not have any DNA evidence and determined that Earls' accuser was not able to testify.
Earls, who has spent nearly nine months in jail already, is scheduled to be released in September.
This judge should be impeached. The only reason the little girl didn't want to testify is because the rapist was in the courtroom and she was scared of him. DOH - who can blame her? This is fucked up!!!
If she had been a member of my family I'd be the one in jail for killing the bastard!
