[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 4284]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         NO JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, justice is lacking in the Ohio criminal court 
of Judge John Connor. Sexual deviant, Andrew Selva, admitted to 
approximately 20 assaults against a 5-year-old and a 12-year-old. In 
most societies, Selva would be looking at a life sentence in the 
jailhouse. But Judge Connor put the criminal on probation and basically 
told him, try to do better.
  The judge obviously lives in the never-never land of excusable 
conduct. Child molesters belong behind bars. That is why we build the 
penitentiaries. That is the only therapy that works for these 
predators.
  And the DA's office is a cohort in this injustice since it reduced 
the charges and had a case of trial sickness, a term applied to 
inferior and unprepared prosecutors who will not go to trial and 
advocate on behalf of victims for fear of losing the case.
  The real losers are the two victims. The criminal abused them and 
then the judge and the DA abused them and victimized them again. The 
judge and the DA should both resign and become defense attorneys, since 
they both obviously are more concerned about criminals than they are 
victims.
  Mr. Speaker, in this particular case, the judge and the DA would both 
be found guilty of inexcusable conduct if they were judged by the 
community. And that's just the way it is.

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