Cosby Sentence

[Joods]

Should he do jail time (prosecution position) or should he be allowed house arrest (defense position)?

Judge weighs Cosby’s sentence after declaring him ‘predator’: https://www.apnews.com/a89d65175e8443f2945137bf07ba6510

" NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A judge declared Bill Cosby a “sexually violent predator” on Tuesday as he prepared to sentence the 81-year-old comedian for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman over a decade ago. The classification means that Cosby must undergo monthly counseling for the rest of his life and report quarterly to authorities. His name will appear on a sex-offender registry sent to neighbors, schools and victims. Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill made the decision as he weighed the punishment for Cosby for violating Temple University women’s basketball administrator Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia estate in 2004.

I think some time in minimum security is warranted.

He had over 60 accusers. Only one of them was allowed to have charges brought against Cosby. One. She wrote a 5 page victim impact statement and represented all of the other women for who time ran out and could not get justice. 

Should he do jail time? Should this even be a question? He raped some of those women. He drugged them and violently took advantage of them. They were left scarred, battered and will have to live with the psychological effects of his crimes long after he is dead. If you ask me 3-10 isn't nearly enough time. In 3 years he can go before the parole board. I hope Andrea Constand shows up to that hearing and speaks out.

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Jail, with his vulnerability taken into account.

There a couple of things that come to mind for discussion:

1) How does someone live their whole life knowing they've done something like this? Is he sorry, I wonder? Does he consider he did anything wrong?

2) It is interesting to consider how by jailing someone for what they did so long ago, that we're punishing essentially a different person. That's always the case, to some degree; but over large periods of time it becomes more substantial. This isn't some sort of excuse to not punish him, I just find it a weird idea. It's an unavoidable consequence of how things are.

During his sentencing, he showed zero remorse. 

You do the crime, you do the time.