Light Sentence for Child Molester Leaves Vermont Judge Under Fire - and the Mad Irishman Mad

My comments: I'll be pithy, lest I get emotionally charged and state how I really feel (which would, undoubtedly, include Hulett and Cashman forcibly anal-raping eachother at gunpoint in the public square while cameras beamed their images around the globe for every child molester and pedo-friendly judge to see. No, wait... they'd probably enjoy that).

In short: this "judge" needs to resign or be fired.

The news article follows...

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Judge Edward Cashman should be the darling of conservatives: a churchgoer, a former prosecutor, a Vietnam vet and a member of the bench known for his hard-line stands: A decade ago he jailed for 41 days the parents of a suspect in a rape case because they refused to cooperate with prosecutors.

In the past few days, though, Cashman has been vilified by conservatives on TV and on blogs. On Fox News, Bill O'Reilly told viewers as video of Cashman rolled: "You may be looking at the worst judge in the USA." And several Vermont Republican lawmakers have demanded he resign or be impeached.

The reason: Cashman sentenced a child molester to just 60 days of jail time — a sentence he said was designed to ensure the man got prompt sex-offender treatment but critics say was too soft.

"As far as we're concerned, Cashman's district can hereby be considered a predator's sanctuary," wrote the Caledonian Record newspaper of St. Johnsbury. "As long as judges like Ed Cashman are allowed to sit on Vermont benches, children cannot be considered safe."

The firestorm erupted last week when Cashman sentenced Mark Hulett, 34, for having sexual contact with a girl, beginning when she was 6, over a four-year period.