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Talk with the District Att. this is a fact not a thought. We are the ones responsible for keeping these people in jail and also letting them out. We had the chance to get the Death penalty for this state and we let it slip away. We have let the Lawyers run this country to long. I'd bet if these rapist were raping the daughters of Judges and lawyers things would be different. But for some strange reason we have people who think they can rehabilitate every criminal who walks the planet.

No I don't want this individual anywhere around children, or the general public either. I'm just saying that I find it funny that everyone and their brother says "lock them up and never let them out" but once taxes are raised, they are the first to complain.... you can't have both, more incarceration with no additional taxes. As a juvenile, this guy probably had perfectly adequate supervision last time, as he didn't reoffend then, however perhaps he was never rehabilitated. We don't know the conditions of his first arrest/sentence so we don't know whether or not he was even ATTEMPTED to be rehabilitated or counseled or anything.... maybe he served a quick stint in a juvenile detention center(60 days) for being a first time offender. It's hard to know WHERE the ball was dropped here. Either way, moving forward, we need to understand that IF we want to keep these types of offenders in prison for life for these types of offenses(locking them up and throwing away the key) then we need to offer to pay more taxes to ensure this, and ensure that we are showing up to the polls to vote for qualified public officials that share our views. If we don't take this approach, then we need to be sure that we ARE beefing up our correctional staffs, at all levels(prisons, intermediate sanctions, probation/parole) to ensure this guy isn't going to "slip through the cracks" once again. I see time and time again, people wanting to complain about how our justice system serves criminals, and how our public officials are incapable of performing to their standards, but they haven't seen their community's voting polls ever, or even know where one is! You can't complain about the way things are and yet buck change.

Prinny68... so obviously there are no guarantees he won't re-offend. Our knee-jerk reaction is to get him off the streets. He must have "issues" as he did it when he was 12. Much less supervision the last time. He did it again!

As a parent its hard to feel any compassion for these types of criminals. You know MY knee-jerk reaction is to isolate the offender from even having another opportunity. That said, I know some can and are rehabilitated.

So would the answer be to beef up the parole staff and counselors? I don't know what else the judicial system can do to fix this. Maybe its not "fixable".

And to Miltonman.. that's a frightening thought... to let someone out who has been incarcerated for decades. They would have no idea how to exist outside those walls!

I don't know if the laws have changed much. But I had a good friend, till his death who was a Circuit Court Judge. Once I asked how come you plea bargain and let these people off with such small penalties! His response was, in the state of Wisconsin when the jails are full they have too by law when putting a person in jail, let the person who has been in the longest out. He said most of the time the sob your letting out is worse than the one your putting in. If that is the case I think we need more corrective action and I don't mean rehabilitation.

I hope he gets the 40 yrs, and why in the world if this man can get 40 yrs didn't the man who caused his son's death by neglect get this many years, that does not make sense at all.

Mitonman, that would be funny if it weren't true, if people really didn't feel that way.

Come on folks I bet this poor boy didn't get any positive strokes as a child. May be just maybe he was possessed by the devil,or just maybe he has a chemical imbalance and it's all our fault for not seeing it sooner and getting him the help he really needs!
Then there's the chance he has over active sex drive. I mean who's fault is that? Maybe he watched to much TV. I think we should put the blame on society where it belongs.
You know he really didn't kill any one and it wasn't our daughter so why so we really care? I'm just thinking out loud because if we really cared we'd get off our hands and be protesting. And electing officials who would get these crazy laws off the books. I think we let the Lawyers run our Judaical system too long.

The problems with the justice system are many, and though many do feel that we are "letting people off" it's more so that we just don't have any room for these criminals. Imagine being in the shoes of a judge.... you have this first time offender in front of you, who has committed a heinous crime. If you send him to prison, you're going to be scrutinized for costing the taxpayers more of their money to cover the approx $25K/yr it costs in WI to house him, but if you utilize our community corrections options, you will be scrutinized for "going easy" on him. So what should they do?

Every other comment I read on any criminal case in this newspaper, I see a common theme: "lock them up and throw away the key", but I don't see anyone willing to state "here's some more taxes out of my pay to lock them up" and the money has to come from somewhere! If we went with that common theme, pretty soon, a vast MAJORITY of our society would be behind bars, and we'd all be working and paying the government solely to house them all!

In this plea agreement, in this case, the allowable incarceration time is 40 years, with an addition 20 years extended supervision. Considering this guy is 20-something years old, he could be 80-something before he is released with nobody looking into what he is doing all of the time. I'm sure, with his history of assualtive behavior his extended release period will include electronic monitoring and intensive supervision. Meaning this guy is going to be WELL watched!! The probaion/parole office will conduct their pre-sentence investigation, with a complete past history including work history, criminal history and lifestyle history, recommend a sentence as well based on their impression of rehabilitation predictions, and the judge will decide the sentence.

This is the way our justice system works. It will never satisfy everyone.

"Folts said the plea agreement punishes the attacker and allows the victims to avoid testifying and reliving the attack." If I were the parents of the victim in this I would be so relieved she wouldn't have to (once again) testify in excrutiating detail in front of a bunch of strangers everything he did to her.

How is it that a rapist, murderer, child molester, drunken driver, thief or terrorist is even eligible for plea bargaining? What plea would possibly be "OK" with the victim or the victims' families? Our system is SICK!!! It doesn't work!

Bleeding hearts who think ALL people can be rehabilitated, need to be personally exposed to what happens when some of these creeps get off. They have even less respect for the system because they just "beat the rap"! Those who don't serve any time feel they are indestructible. Now before ya all jump on me, of course there are some (I'd bet less than 25%) are genuinely sorry they got themselves in a mess. Good for them... they can and do turn their lives around.

But there is less and less remorse and accountability nowadays. And our courts are feeding into it. The patsy name is "1st time offender". This leads me to believe its JUST the first time, there will probably be a 2nd and 3rd and.... So we let them serve time with Huber privileges, or a couple years in "prison" then they go out into society and do it all over again.

There is no real threat - "I'll just bargain it out..." Our D.A.s have obviously NOT been on the receiving end of the criminal mind. Its just a job... I make great money... I have a nice house, blah, blah, blah.

I think our Rock County courthouse needs an overhaul!!! Dump them all and start over. Fill ALL the positions with victims and family members of victims. I guarantee you there would be less repeat offenders because they wouldn't be allowed to plea bargain. Serve EVERY DANGED day you are sentenced with. No good behavior outs, no country club prisons, blue collar and white collar crimes are treated the same.

The PC mentality has trashed our legal system. I know there are a few (and I mean a VERY FEW) who will actually be innocent, but most of those are ironed out during a trial. (If they even bound anyone over for an actual REAL trial!)

If DAs is so overwhelmed, then perhaps they need to get more staff but don't push the scum back out on our streets.

I had posted this on an article about the police deciding to post arrest records online. I had said then that due to plea bargaining, the arrest records may be the only way the public will ever know what really happened.
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"Plea bargains deny justice, they don't facilitate it. D.A.'s use them to expedite cases through the legal system, not for justice's sake but for the purpose of saving money. Innocent defendants are pressured to accept a deal as if the justice system is a roulette wheel instead of a crucible for determining the truth. So the net result of plea bargains are criminals getting lighter sentences than their actions deserve, and innocents being convicted of crimes they didn’t commit rather than risk a larger penalty. We need to refocus our justice system to actually seek justice and not just to process the accused."

Coach, I am sick of these perps getting out on plea deals. The creep didn't give this young girl an "option".

Then there is the guy who allowed his 14 month old son to die, while he scores heroin. Just 5 years for that one!!! This is sick!!!!

I hope Perry Folts and David O'leary are reading this.  Jarrett is a repeat sexual offender. You have him "dead to rights" on these charges.  "Justice will be served" is your way of getting out of a trial. You can put him away for the rest of his life. Instead, you choose to give him a plea deal. Your plea deal is going to allow him to get out LONG before he would get out if you had "rang him up" for all that he had done. You both are to blame if he gets out of prison at some point and rapes another young woman. Too often you elect to go with plea deals to save yourself the energy/time in going to trial. Mr. O'Leary you need to start taking control of your office and quit allowing your ADA's to determine their own case outcomes. I am keeping track of your plea deals and I'm certain those offenders who you are allowing minimal time will be back to haunt our society. I don't know how you sleep at night. I can bet that if a crime affected your family, you would have a different way in handling the case.

""When he was 12, Jarrett was convicted in juvenile court of sexually assaulting a child.""

I thought juvenile records were protected and secret? You rarely see, in print, names involving juvenile arrests/convictions unless they were waived to adult court. Which Jarret's case, when he was 12, was not.

fry him.

Two words: chemical castration

pun intended beeferer??;)

I don't think the Gazette needs to put the details of the "RAPE" Public... This is a 14 year old "CHILD".... What a horrible thing for this child and her family have to go through once again..... I hope this young girl can get through all of this and live a happy life... My heart goes out to her.

I seems strange to me that some seem to think that rape in prison (on a daily basis for 40 years) somehow serves justice in cases like this while many of those same people think that the death penalty for a such a man is never justified.

I just know he'll get his in the end.

WOW! The first arrest was let go. I wonder if the sexual assault is still on his Ccap record?

He is lucky he is not in my court!
What he admits to equals LIFE with no parole and "good friends" that will treat him like he treated the boy and her!!!!