Have we all gone completely mad? Orange County, California has agreed to settle a lawsuit resulting in a payment of $4 million to an illegal alien child molester and his family.
The settlement appears to be the largest ever paid by Orange County for an in-custody incident involving county sheriffs, according to county officials and the man's lawyer.
Fernando Ramirez, then 21, was left brain-damaged by inmates in Module A at the Orange County Central Jail in June 2006. He was jailed after a 6-year-old girl told her mother a stranger touched her over her clothes on her private parts at El Salvador Park in Santa Ana. Ramirez was charged with child molestation but eventually pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of non-sexual battery, said his attorney, Mark Eisenberg.
But Eisenberg said the jail's classification of his client contributed to the attack because other prisoners became aware of the sexual assault allegation. Deputies in charge of monitoring the jail that night were elsewhere in the jail when the attack occurred, Eisenberg said.
Prison is a bad place full of bad people, who are capable of doing really bad things. One of the deterrents to child molesters is the way they are treated by fellow prisoners. There are ways to avoid being beaten in a California prison for molesting children, and this guy had more chances than most.
One way he could have avoided the imprisonment would have been to not enter the United States illegally. Alternately, he might have resisted his urge to touch a six-year old girl over her clothes, on her private parts.
But then again, the idea that someone with no respect for America's immigration laws would respect our laws against child molestation or non-sexual battery is rather suspect.
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