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A Sanford jury today convicted a 33-year-old woman of having sex with a 5-year-old boy.
Kelly Lumadue was then sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Jurors on Tuesday watched videotape of the sex acts. They happened 12 years ago when Lumadue, then 21, lived in Longwood with her husband, a professional pornographer who recorded the session. He has since died.
She wasn't arrested until 2003, seven years after the recordings were made. That's when a garbage collector found the tapes in a box at the curb outside Lumadue's Volusia County home. They were among videotapes she had thrown out.
Between 1991 and 1997, the number of sex offenders in Texas prisons increased by 130 percent. The average sentence length for sex offenders increased from 13.9 to 15.1 years, mainly because of increased sentence lengths for sex crimes against children. The average sentence length for sexual assault of a child increased from 16.5 to 18.6 years.
Originally posted by MatrixBaller04
What I hate is they never ask the vicitim if it was consentual. Did that boy agree to it? Did he ask first and she agreed? Did he enjoy it and watned it to happen?
There's just so much more that people don't get the answers to.
For all we know, the kid enjoyed it and it was consentual. So why the life in prison? For having sex with someone? That's rediculous.
Originally posted by MatrixBaller04
For all we know, the kid enjoyed it and it was consentual. So why the life in prison? For having sex with someone? That's rediculous.
Originally posted by MatrixBaller04
What I hate is they never ask the vicitim if it was consentual. Did that boy agree to it? Did he ask first and she agreed? Did he enjoy it and watned it to happen?
There's just so much more that people don't get the answers to.
For all we know, the kid enjoyed it and it was consentual. So why the life in prison? For having sex with someone? That's rediculous.
Originally posted by MatrixBaller04
Who the hell knows if they can or not. have you ever sat down with a young child and asked them if they wanted to have sex and see what they say? No. So how are you so sure?
Originally posted by MatrixBaller04
Who the hell knows if they can or not. have you ever sat down with a young child and asked them if they wanted to have sex and see what they say? No. So how are you so sure?
Did you read the article about researchers saying we need to teach children the pleasures of gay sex as early as 5?
Originally posted by MatrixBaller04
Who the hell knows if they can or not. have you ever sat down with a young child and asked them if they wanted to have sex and see what they say? No. So how are you so sure?
Did you read the article about researchers saying we need to teach children the pleasures of gay sex as early as 5?
[edit on 19-9-2008 by MatrixBaller04]
Originally posted by MatrixBaller04
Alright...Just so we get this clear...I am not condoning having sex with children. I merely stated that maybe it was consentual. I wouldn't know. I don't remeber anything before like 12 years old.
What she did was wrong (she broke the law) so she was punished.
I guess I just see it as unfair that people can get probation for the rape of children, yet this woman gets life in prison for it.
If you're going to have a law like this, make the penalty the same.
Gerald R Bendig, 52, was first convicted of raping a child in Bristol Township in 1973. Then again in 1976. A third child-rape conviction in Lower Bucks followed in 1981, prompting a judge to sentence Bendig to the maximum of 20 years.
It wasn’t enough. Bendig maxed out that sentence in 2001, left prison and moved to Norristown, Montgomery County. In 2006, he raped a 10-year-old boy from an immigrant family.
Bendig was found guilty of that crime in May. And on Wednesday, Montgomery County Judge Steven T. O’Neill said Bendig’s four child-rape convictions were more than adequate for meeting the requirements of Pennsylvania’s “threestrike” law, which allows for life sentences for repeat violent offenders.
A Montreal man convicted of sexually assaulting his young daughter and posting pictures of the crime on the internet has had his prison sentence reduced by the Quebec Court of Appeal.
In a 2-1 ruling on Tuesday, the court ruled the man's crimes were not among the worst sexual assaults ever committed, and agreed to reduce his sentence from 15 years to nine.
"There was no violence, such as gagging, threatening or hitting the child," Judge Lise Côté wrote.