Also for the record, no child is safe from a determined predator. Regardless of whether you are a two parent household, single parent, white, black, rich or poor. It could be "Uncle Bob" with whom you spend your weekends with, it could be a school teacher, a priest. I don't care what the upbringing is or how good a parent you are, it can happen to any one of our children. People need to stop blaming the parents (accept for those who know something is going on and turn a blind eye or don't believe the child) and start blaming the person really responsible. Until the laws change and these people are put away and black balled from society for the rest of their life, our children will never be safe.
Until state, county and federal officials make child abuse, neglect, molestation and rape a real issue instead of appeasing those in front of them at the time, the system will never change. Until the government stops worrying about huddling in a corner like a pack of hens talking about the current president and how to oust him rather than working together on the real issue, our children will never be safe. Until the government decides to devote as much time to protecting our children as they do their precious parking spaces, our children will never be safe!
I say, you give us this judges name, the states attorneys name and the defense attorneys name and we bombard him with faxes and letter of our outrage! I am not sure which court you went to but whether it be Maryland or Virginia, we should still do it. I am committed and will gladly do it and proudly sign my name at the bottom!
One more thing, until we as a community stop caring about what only affects our kids or what is in our own back yard and start caring about children as a whole and protecting them, our children will never be safe! After all, that child who is hurt and you turn a blind eye to, lives down the street, goes to the same school and due to that childs neglect or abuse, it could turn him/her into an angry adult who could very possibly harm someone right in your backyard!