The article below talks about a case in which it seems that the offender is getting a pretty light sentence. Considering the person was already on probation for "reckless abuse of an adult" I would think that this would have been a red flag.
RICHMOND — Jaclyn VanWinkle likely will have served her prison sentence before she is formally sentenced after entering a guilty plea Thursday to rape and sodomy charges.
VanWinkle pleaded guilty to charges of third-degree rape and third-degree sodomy stemming from an incident involving a 15-year-old boy.
Richmond police charged VanWinkle after the boy told detectives she had given him alcohol, performed sex acts on him and then had intercourse with him.
VanWinkle was arrested last July and was indicted in September on two counts of third-degree rape and one count each of third-degree sodomy, third-degree unlawful transaction with a minor and first-degree sexual abuse.
VanWinkle told Madison Circuit Judge Jean C. Logue that she did not suffer from any mental problem that would impair her ability to understand Thursday’s proceedings.
When she was arrested, VanWinkle was on probation stemming from a guilty plea to reckless abuse of an adult for her role in the abuse of a Madison Manor resident.
VanWinkle had worked as a nurse’s aide at the facility, and was charged in connection with a hidden-camera investigation into the treatment of Armeda Thomas, a resident who later died. - Read the entire article here
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
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