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Hopefully that got gets his throat slit in prison.
http://www.inquisitr.com/650905/judg...-kids-scandal/
Should have got more time imoPennsylvania judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. was sentenced to 28 years in prison for a scandal in which he sent thousands of children to private prisons in return for a kickback.
The judge in the “cash for kids” scandal, Ciavarella Jr., was tried and convicted of racketeering charges. Lawyers for the 61-year-old former judge had asked for a “reasonable” sentence, saying the judge had been punished already through his conviction and fall from grace.
“He will forever be unjustly branded as the `Kids for Cash‘ judge,” his lawyer contended.
The Pennsylvania judge had a reputation for his harsh and dictatorial courtroom manner, and for what appeared to be overly strict sentencing. The trial revealed that Ciavarella was more than just a tough judge.
Ciavarella was famously confronted by a mother of one of the children sentenced. While he stood on the courthouse steps addressing the media, Ciavarella was interrupted by a mother whose son was sent to jail in the “cash for kids” scandal.
The boy served a jail sentence and lost his standing at high school, where he was an honor student and wrestler. The boy ended up taking his life.
Ciavarella was sentenced to 28 years and ordered to pay $1.2 million in res ution after being called a “figurehead” in the cash-for-kids scandal. A jury found that he had violated the cons utional rights of the children sentenced, stripping them of the right to legal counsel and to intelligently enter a plea.
“Unfortunately, two judges in Luzerne County have caused unimaginable taint to the laudable efforts of many dedicated individuals,” Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille said, “conduct for which those two judges presently are paying dearly.”
Prosecutors said Mark Ciavarella Jr. and another judge, Michael Conahan, were accused of taking more than $2 million in bribes from the builder of PA Child Care and Western PA Child Care detention centers. They sentenced children as young as 10 to the facilities.
Hopefully that got gets his throat slit in prison.
good riddens, i also think he deserves more time. s bag ruined the lives of a lot of kids behind this.
He ought to do the decent thing and commit suicide. Save someone else the trouble.
He'll be eating ass sandwiches the rest of his days.
While this s bag deserves far worse than he got, this case sheds light on a bigger problem, which is private prisons. I think they are a terrible idea and should be done away with.
son of a surely deserves more time in prison for what he did but it wouldn't make much difference imho. damage was already irreversibly done to those kids and their families, and the old ain't likely gonna serve 20yr or more prison time since he's already 61
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