And regarding the NYT article:

“ One of the difficult cases to land on the governor’s desk was the 2016 arrest of Mr. Schoettle, whose late stepfather was a former chairman of the Bank of Kentucky and whose mother served until recently on a state legislative ethics commission.

The girl accused Mr. Schoettle several months after she said the abuse had stopped, and all parties agree that there was no physical evidence or independent witnesses in the case.

Deanna L. Dennison, an appeals lawyer in his case, questioned why DNA testing had not been done in the bedroom where the abuse was reported to have occurred over several years. “What investigation did they do?” she said. “They took a 13-year-old’s word for it, and that was it.”

The Kentucky Innocence Project also believed there were “forensic issues,” but had held off on taking the case while the appeals process played out, the project’s director, Suzanne Hopf, said.

Prosecutors in Kenton County cited research that it was not uncommon for child victims to delay reporting, and that many abused children do not show signs of physical injury when tested. The girl testified from the stand.

“This little girl was raped repeatedly over three years, and I’m not about to call her a liar just because she didn’t call police as soon as it happened,” said Rob Sanders, the Kenton County commonwealth’s attorney. “I trust the collective wisdom of 12 citizens of Kenton County much more than I do the ignorant opinions of Matt Bevin.”

So, in other words, a 13 year old’s word was all that put this guy away. Insanity. The Innocence Project does not take cases lightly.

One of the guys doing time for sexual assault had the finger pointed at him by others at the party but there was no proof at all he was even in the room or at the party at the time the assault occurred.

Anonymous wrote:How did the guy have multiple occasions to assault the girl? That’s not in the article I can access.

He was a relative of the girl. I don’t know why idiots like Bevin decide they know better than a judge and jury who listened to the trial.

Anonymous wrote:How did the guy have multiple occasions to assault the girl? That’s not in the article I can access.

The article calls him a close relative.

Seems with the pardon involving the 6 year old girl, even the judge admitted he’d been probably deceived.

How did the guy have multiple occasions to assault the girl? That’s not in the article I can access.

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Anonymous wrote:Now Bevin says he pardoned the child rapist because the victim’s hymen was intact.
https://amp.courier-journal.com/amp/2704244001?__twitter_impression=true

GO THE F*CK AWAY, YOU MONSTER.

Was it? That’s interesting information.

Perverts! Member of the Grand Old Perverts (GOP)!

+1. As the medical community has noted repeatedly there’s no accurate way to determine virginity.

Prosecutors are reporting that Bevin never consulted them before determining the “innocence” of these child predators.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/us/kentucky-governor-matt-bevin-pardons.amp.html
The mother was at home preparing cheese sticks and a milkshake when she got the call. On the other line, a prosecutor had surprising news about the man who had been convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting her child and sentenced last year to 23 years in prison.

In one of his last acts in office, the outgoing governor, Matt Bevin, had weighed in on the case. Citing a lack of physical evidence and a “sloppy” investigation, Mr. Bevin issued an unconditional pardon. The man, Micah Schoettle, 41, a close relative of the girl, walked out of prison.

“I just kept saying, ‘How? How? How?’” recalled the mother, who asked not to be named to protect the identity of her teenage daughter, who said she was 9 when the assaults began. “He spent less time in prison than he did molesting my child.”