You have been deflowered as it were:
"Fairness at issue in cases for long-ago juvenile crimes" by Maria Cramer | Globe Staff October 07, 2014
Martin Carr was 15 when he raped, beat, and stabbed a young woman in Harbor Point, leaving her so battered she could not recognize her own face in the mirror.
Carr was not caught, and over the next two decades he appeared to become less violent. He got his GED, started a relationship, became a father.
Sounds like a real good guy.
What a mixed message to send in this age of sensitivity to domestic abuse, what with Ray Rice and all. I think I again see an agenda at work. Call in a domestic disturbance and see what happens.
It's looking like Ebola and all these other issues being thrust forward at this time are now nothing more than additional excuses to implement more tyranny in preparation for martial law.
But he was arrested for drug distribution several times, and DNA collected in one of those cases led him to be charged in the 1998 rape.
Last week Carr, now 31, begged for leniency, imploring a Suffolk Superior Court judge to save his two sons from “growing up without their father.” His sentence: 8 to 10 years, half what prosecutors sought.
How does the fright feel on the other shoe, rapist?
Carr’s case points to an intricacy in Massachusetts law: Juvenile court judges cannot preside over the trial of an adult charged for something he did as a child or as a teenager. When Carr went to trial, he no longer had access to the juvenile court system, where an offender’s age is taken into account and often results in a lighter sentence.
“It’s unfair no matter how you look at it,” said retired Juvenile Court judge Gail Garinger, who is now the state’s child advocate. “When there is this vast gap in time, there really is no way to do as well by the victim and the perpetrator.”
I would think the victim would be happy they found the monster, and does time really heal that wound? The women's health experts say it debilities women for a lifetime, makes them untrusting and non responsive to love, and on and on.
Why are they cutting Carr such a sympathetic break?
But recent decisions by the Supreme Court and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court have suggested that judges look more closely at the age defendants were when they committed an offense.
You know, with $ocial media and all kids are growing up awfully fast. They are nowhere near as naive as I was when I was as young.
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Both courts based their decisions largely on the growing scientific evidence that because of brain development, juveniles are less culpable than adults for their actions, even in cases of extreme violence.
Unfortunately, I have come to doubt $cience cited in an agenda-pu$hing paper. You may say the globe-warming lies did it to me.
Advocates for lighter sentences for juvenile defendants say the rulings should factor into a judge’s decision-making even when life sentences aren’t in play and when many years have passed between the crime and a conviction.
And the next time a rapist is released and reoffends? They will be squawking from all quarters! How quickly Remy and Alemany have been forgotten, huh?!!!
“The cases refer to what we now know about the adolescent brain, that for many young offenders impulse control is not completely developed,” Garinger said. “Taking such factors into account should . . . lead to a recognition that young offenders often mature and can develop into persons who will not pose a threat to public safety.”
But once they hit 18 time to channel that into military service!
But Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said in Carr’s case, the viciousness of the crime should have outweighed the issue of age.
“We appreciate the defendant’s age at the time of the offense,” he said. “But we can’t lose sight of the sheer brutality of his crime. It was a particularly vicious sexual assault that could have very well have ended as a murder.”
Ah, he's a loving father now. Drop the charges.
In September 1998, the victim was 19 and starting her second year at college. She had gone to a party in the Harbor Point development in South Boston with her brother and some friends. At 2 a.m. her brother left, but she stayed for another two hours.
Oh, now you have to drop charges. This is all her fault.
When she left, she was intoxicated and ran into two teenage boys who had been at the party. They asked her whether she wanted to join them at their place in Harbor Point.
Nothing good ever happens after midnight or when booze is involved, but it's a big part of the economy and the rich man's drug so.... don't smoke pot!
As they climbed the concrete stairwell to the apartment, one of them, a short teenager in a baseball cap, grabbed her and slammed her head against the wall. He pummeled her face and body, then took off her jeans. After he raped her, he began beating her again as his friend looked on.
She begged the friend to help but he did nothing as her attacker dragged her under the stairwell and began slashing at her body and neck. He stabbed her 20 times and slit her throat, then walked away.
But he's a great father!
The woman played dead and when she was sure they were gone, she ran toward Morrissey Boulevard, where a group of people found her and called an ambulance.
???????? What did he stab her with?
At the hospital, a rape examination was done. Police showed her booking photos of youths who resembled her description of her attacker, but the victim did not recognize any of them.
A year after the attack, Carr was convicted of armed robbery and gun possession. After that, however, he has no other major arrests for violence on his record.
What's with the apologies for this monster, Globe?
The rape case went cold until 2010, when Boston police learned that the DNA of a man convicted and incarcerated in Maine for marijuana distribution matched that sample taken from the rape victim....
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He is a good-looking man!
