Her name won't be released, out of a desire to protect the victim in the case who is her daughter. But in St. Louis, an appeal was made to throw out a reduced sentence of a woman who has to be one of the worst mothers in the world.
It all started when Joe J. Champion of Granite City, Ill made a deal with a woman that would allow him to molest her child, for a price of $20, per incident.
As disgusting as the crime itself is, I have to first comment on the "wouldn't again offer her daughter for money" defense of her legal team. I would gather that while they are most likely correct in the assumption that she won't be selling this daughter to a pedophile again- the reason behind it has more to do with her being in jail, the child being older, and the child not being with her- than any supposed change of heart on the mothers behalf.
That being said, I find the very fact that a mother, for any reason, could forcibly hold her own flesh and blood down while someone sexually abused them unforgivable and morally corrupt. The excuse that she had drug problems is lacking to say the least- millions of people have drug problems, few of them go to the extent of selling their children for drug money, even fewer would go to the length of threatening their child with "foster care" claiming it was even worse- while holding the child down. To participate in such a horrific crime is unimaginable, and lacking any parental connection to the child.
I'm glad the the higher court sided with the state in this matter, and threw out the lesser conviction... there is no amount of time that would ever be enough, but ten years is completely unacceptible.
Categories: predators, molesters,abused,
It all started when Joe J. Champion of Granite City, Ill made a deal with a woman that would allow him to molest her child, for a price of $20, per incident.
The woman, convicted in 2003 of aggravated sexual abuse and conspiring with Champion to help him molest the girl, was initially sentenced to 17 1/2 years in prison — the minimum provided under federal sentencing guidelines.
She appealed, and an 8th Circuit panel of judges sent the case back to U.S. District Judge Charles A. Shaw, saying he might have given her a lighter sentence if he had known he wasn't bound by the guidelines.
A January 2005 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court loosened the nearly 20-year-old mandatory guideline system, making it merely advisory.
Shaw then sentenced the woman to 10 years, saying mental problems and drug addiction had influenced her behavior. The judge also noted that she'd taken parenting classes, had vocational training and gotten her GED while in prison.
Prosecutors challenged that sentence, and the appeals panel found the woman's efforts to rehabilitate herself neither "lessen the horrendous treatment" of her daughter, nor indicate that she wouldn't again offer her daughter to an abuser for money.
As disgusting as the crime itself is, I have to first comment on the "wouldn't again offer her daughter for money" defense of her legal team. I would gather that while they are most likely correct in the assumption that she won't be selling this daughter to a pedophile again- the reason behind it has more to do with her being in jail, the child being older, and the child not being with her- than any supposed change of heart on the mothers behalf.
That being said, I find the very fact that a mother, for any reason, could forcibly hold her own flesh and blood down while someone sexually abused them unforgivable and morally corrupt. The excuse that she had drug problems is lacking to say the least- millions of people have drug problems, few of them go to the extent of selling their children for drug money, even fewer would go to the length of threatening their child with "foster care" claiming it was even worse- while holding the child down. To participate in such a horrific crime is unimaginable, and lacking any parental connection to the child.
I'm glad the the higher court sided with the state in this matter, and threw out the lesser conviction... there is no amount of time that would ever be enough, but ten years is completely unacceptible.
Categories: predators, molesters,abused,
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