Old News is Good News

It's been over 6 years since I wrote about the grotesquerie in the Montana court room of the Honorable G Todd Baugh when he gave a slap on the wrist to Stacey Dean Rambold after Rambold raped a 14 year old girl who was a student in his high school class. The girl, who later committed suicide while the trial was pending. 

The Dishonorable G Todd Baugh

The now Dishonorable G Todd Baugh was censured and suspended as a judge by the Montana Supreme Court in 2013 for that judgment,particularly his opinion that the 14 year old victim "appeared older than her chronological age."

In a six-page ruling, the court said Baugh’s actions warranted suspension without pay for 31 days. Noting Baugh's term expires at the end of the year and that he did not seek re-election, the court said the suspension would begin on Dec. 1.

The verdict against Rambold was also overturned by the Montana Supreme Court, who sentenced Rambold to 15 years, with 5 suspended, for the rape of the girl.

The rapist, Stacey Dean Rambold

Both stories are good news, though thin justice for the young girl who was raped by her high school teacher and subsequently killed herself.

Of concern though, is the further development, from 2017, that Rambold has apparently been paroled by the State of Montana after serving only 2 1/2 years in prison,  having completed a sex offender program, and paroled to the Great State of California.

Cherice Moralez (1993-2010)

In your charity, please lift an Ave for the repose of the soul of Cherice Moralez.

In paradisum deducant te Angeli; in tuo adventu suscipiant te martyres, et perducant te in civitatem sanctam Jerusalem. Chorus angelorum te suscipiat, et cum Lazaro quondam paupere æternam habeas requiem.

"May the angels lead you into paradise; may the martyrs receive you at your arrival and lead you to the holy city Jerusalem. May choirs of angels receive you and with Lazarus, once a beggar, may you have eternal rest."