T.F. woman sentenced to life for lewdness charge
A Twin Falls woman convicted of forcing a 13-year-old boy to touch her breasts was sentenced Monday to life in prison. Michelle Lyn Taylor, 34, was convicted of lewdness with a minor under 14 in November after a week-long trial in Elko County, Nev., District Judge Mike Memeo’s courtroom. With the conviction, Taylor faced a mandatory life sentence, and Memeo set parole eligibility after 10 years, the minimum sentence. If released on parole she must register as a sex offender and will be under lifetime supervision. The district attorney’s office did not offer a plea agreement in the case, said public defender Alina Kilpatrick, who argued the sentence is unconstitutional and doesn’t fit the crime.
[Editor's Comment:] The sentence does certainly not fit the crime; we're not even sure this should be considered a 'crime' at all. 'Offense' or 'misdemeanor' would probably make more sense. -This prudishness is typical of fascist regimes. Under such regimes, the authoritarian mindset is not just dominant but prevalent. This mindset is characterized by "high levels of aggression in the name of [the] authorities". The authoritarians are very aggressive and simply love to punish people. Their virue is not genuine though, but is a false front of prudery passed off as virtue. The Nazi saying over the gates of Auschwitz comes to mind ("Arbeit Macht Frei"), where cruelty and "virtue" went hand in hand. The US now seems to be headed in the same general direction.