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Snarkoleptic

(5,995 posts)
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 12:58 PM Jun 2014

Billionaire who confessed to sexually assaulting teen stepdaughter gets four-month sentence

We have the best justice system that money can buy.

The billionaire heir to the SC Johnson company’s fortune — who confessed to repeatedly sexually assaulting his teenage stepdaughter — received a four-month jail sentence on Friday from a Racine, WI judge who cited the Johnson family’s importance in the community.

Milwaukee’s Channel 4 News reported that Circuit Judge Eugene Gasiorkiewicz told 59-year-old defendant Samuel Curtis Johnson III that “you could not grow up in this community and not know some of the people involved in this case.”

According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Johnson plead guilty to misdemeanor charges of fourth-degree sexual assault and disorderly conduct rather than the felony sexual assault on a minor child charges he originally faced in 2011.


More sickening details at the link-
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/07/billionaire-who-confessed-to-sexually-assaulting-teen-stepdaughter-gets-four-month-sentence/
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Billionaire who confessed to sexually assaulting teen stepdaughter gets four-month sentence (Original Post) Snarkoleptic Jun 2014 OP
More over at ThinkProgress Snarkoleptic Jun 2014 #1
Why would refusal to release the her therapy records matter? Laffy Kat Jun 2014 #4
Kind of smacks of intimidation. Snarkoleptic Jun 2014 #8
Similar to the treatment of the DuPont heir convicted of raping his daughter. factsarenotfair Jun 2014 #5
S. C. Johnson, chervilant Jun 2014 #2
1 law for the rich ... intaglio Jun 2014 #3
He should be doing hard time for the remainder of his pitiful life. Benton D Struckcheon Jun 2014 #6
Harkens to the day when the clergy had their own laws too... VanillaRhapsody Jun 2014 #7
a list of all the brands from this 5th generation family company (from their website) niyad Jun 2014 #9
In America, you can have all the "justice" you can afford. Scuba Jun 2014 #10
Kick tabasco Jun 2014 #11

Snarkoleptic

(5,995 posts)
1. More over at ThinkProgress
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 01:01 PM
Jun 2014
Originally, Johnson was charged with felony sexual assault of a child for repeatedly targeting his stepdaughter for three years. His stepdaughter initially told police Johnson was “a sex addict” and touched her inappropriately 15 to 20 times starting when she was 12 years old. She told her mother about the abuse in order to protect her younger sister, and Johnson confessed when the mother confronted him.

The felony charge carries up to 40 years in prison. However, the prosecutor said they had to downgrade the charges to a misdemeanor because the girl and her mother would not cooperate.

Johnson’s lawyers insisted the girl’s medical records be released to see if she had reported the abuse to her therapist, and a court held that the girl could not testify unless she released the records. The girl and her mother refused to release them, so the girl was barred from taking the stand. The case essentially fell apart without her as a witness, the prosecution said.

“Refusal to cooperate” is a common reason rapists go free, and obscures the difficult situations and complex power dynamics victims face when they come forward. Victims, especially children, are often traumatized and unable to navigate the rigid legal maze.


https://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/06/07/3446226/billionaire-sexual-assault-four-months-jail/

Benton D Struckcheon

(2,347 posts)
6. He should be doing hard time for the remainder of his pitiful life.
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 01:24 PM
Jun 2014

And share a cell with Woody Allen.
Maybe he'll marry his victim too?

 

VanillaRhapsody

(21,115 posts)
7. Harkens to the day when the clergy had their own laws too...
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 01:33 PM
Jun 2014

if you could read you were considered clergy and therefore above the law...

niyad

(112,435 posts)
9. a list of all the brands from this 5th generation family company (from their website)
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 02:35 PM
Jun 2014


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