Really? This Asswipe Gets Probation & Time Served???

So it seems our justice system is in need of some tweaking.  Juries without a clue and judges without a clue are flooding our system as of late - or so it seems.

The Casey Anthony jury was out to lunch - clearly.  They actually ignored common sense in favor of some CSI kind of 'gotcha' evidence.  Something that only happens as effectively as it does in television shows and movies. 

Then there's this case with my favorite actress Kathryn Erbe.  So this psycho nut job isn't even kept in some psychiatric institute for treatment?  You know, like locked up?  He can just go home?  Oh right.  Probation makes it better.  WTF?  

I read in another article I can't seem to locate at the moment that the man claimed to have been raped in prison.  Really?  Well considering previously he was convicted of sexually assaulting a young girl, maybe it's just poetic justice. 

This loser creep also brought his daughters in to plead for his release.  The same daughters he accused of having perpetrated some of the crime.  Like defacing a photo of Kathryn's daughter, etc.  I think he should have his kids taken away from him.  His wife should be ashamed of herself to let her daughters go through this after he used them to try and defend himself before.  They're both unfit parents if you ask me.

Having been involved in a situation where my roommate in college was stalked, I know it's a horrible ordeal for everyone involved.  The victim and her family and people around her.  I kept an old cane that used to belong to my grandfather next to the door just in case.  Sometimes we would go to our respective parents houses just to feel safe.

Stalking isn't something that should be handled with a pat on the hand.  Stalkers should be put away for the entire sentence they were given if nothing else to give peace of mind to his victims. 

This man threatened her brother and ex-husband, too from what I read about the case.  They both testified about the creep in court. 

I think the judge who let him out on probation needs to learn more about stalking cases.  He should read up on more of the subject and see the kind of damage that is done to people's psyche when they feel they may have to actually arm themselves before leaving their homes.  Or feeling as if they have to stay away from their home to feel safe.  It's not right. 

I hope this creep behaves himself and has learned his lesson.  Of course if he's got mental issues as the judge says, can he learn any lessons?   He's still using his kids to save his sorry ass and he may now have reason to be even more angry at Ms. Erbe and her family.

Oh and to some of the posters at Yahoo who made some pretty sick comments about this whole thing, I hope you all one day get your very own stalker. Someone who takes offense to you for some stupid reason and then tries to make your life a living hell.  You deserve it.  Just like Charles Nagel deserved everything that happened to him in prison.

Another rant over. Hope I'll feel better soon so I can stop ranting.  I'll probably have to avoid the news and politics in order to do that....