[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 1293-1294]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          JUDGES HALL OF SHAME

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Madam Speaker, judges have the public duty to protect 
children from sexual deviants, including those from Vermont.
  Mark Hulett molested a 6-year-old girl for 4 years. Reports indicate 
he even had a history of abusing women. But when he went to court for 
the child molesting charge, Judge Edward ``Cushy'' Cashman of Vermont 
put the

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molester in jail for only 60 days and ordered some ``Kum-Ba-Yah'' type 
of treatment.
  The crime against this little girl is a human rights violation. The 
judge condoned the violation by not punishing the criminal. Has the 
judge made Vermont a safe sanctuary State for child molesters?
  Almost everyone in America knows, except Judge Cushy, that you cannot 
cure child rapists. You keep them away from kids. You lock them up in 
jail. Why do you think we build those prisons? Judge Cushy should be 
held accountable and removed from the bench, then given sensitivity 
training on the effects of being raped as a child.
  Justice will only be served when judges are as concerned about the 
molested as they are about the molesters, but for now the Judges Hall 
of Shame has a brand new member.
  And that's just the way it is.

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