A Case of Injustice

If a person has money, he can escape punishment after committing a crime. There are many examples of this in the world but what we are going to talk about today is a terrible case.

This piece of human trash is right here:

He is Robert H. Richards IV, and his trial is one of the terrible examples of the procedure of the American justice system I've learned.

Richards was convicted of attacking his three-year-old daughter and didn't serve a day in jail. Understand, this is not a case where he avoided being arrested or managed to swing an acquittal. He pled guilty, he confessed what he'd done, and he was convicted to probation and counseling and gave a $4,000 fine. For raping a little kid.

If you thought that he was from an obscenely rich family, congratulations, you have the main feeling of how the country works.

Richards is one of the successors of the DuPont chemical fortune. The DuPonts are an insanely wealthy and politically related bunch and have a long past of burying what occurs within their family. He's never worked a day in his life, and possibly never faced a real reaction either. Even when his trial got to the authority, somehow the media never picked up on the case, and the judiciaries collaborated in quietly taking care of it.

At sentencing, his adviser claimed that he “wouldn't fare well” in jail. And the judge, while rather pathetically reporting that he should “arguably" be in jail, still convicted him to eight years probation, referring, among other aspects, his “strong family support".

I mean, if there's anything in the world that an individual should be in jail for, this pretty much has to be it, right? We have poor people going to jail for years for shoplifting, and this devil gets probation for raping a baby.

I've long understood that justice systems care for the rich and the poor very oppositely, but usually, it's a little more modest. This is so insanely blatant that it's tough to understand. There are cases where I can buy that it's just a course of having money to waste on lawyers and detectives and skilled witnesses, and of judges and juries being favored toward people who are rich, informed, and well-spoken. None of that helps here. I have to believe that, at some point in the procedure, someone was paid off, or blackmailed, or terrorized, or some other inappropriate pressure was brought to bear. There's simply no explanation for him not being in jail right now.