Man gets 15 to 225 years for phone harassment

	posted by Adam on 11:55 AM April 14th, 2004
	Anonymous User writes "A man who harassed more than 40 women whose names he got from accident reports and obituaries that ran in local newspapers was sentenced to 15-225 years in prison along with 46 years of probation after his release. The guy definitely has some problems, but I would suspect that if the sexes were reversed in this case, this story wouldn't have even made the news, and the woman would have got nothing more than a little slap on the hand. article"

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40 different people? (Score:0) by Anonymous User on 02:41 PM April 14th, 2004 EST (#1) I'd imagine the sentence is fixed for an individual case of harassment, and because this schmuck did it to 40 different people, the sentence was multiplied by 40 to get the final number. When you put it in that perspective, I don't think the final sentence was that harsh. Additionally, I think a woman would have been sentenced similarly for the same situation. Can anyone come up with a similar case that a woman was the perpetrator of? If not, I don't think this is really relevant to discrimination against men. MM

Re:40 different people? (Score:1) by buck25 on 01:28 AM April 15th, 2004 EST (#3) (User #1576 Info) This guy got a harsher sentance for saying bad things to people than most women get for murdering men. Come on now, do you really think a woman would get a sentance like this for harassing forty men? Loriana Bobbit didn't even get fifteen days for cutting off her husbands penis.

Re:40 different people? (Score:0) by Anonymous User on 12:57 PM April 15th, 2004 EST (#4) I've gotta go with Buck, on this. "Mental illness" is often used to keep women OUT of prison. But when it's a man "mental illness" is used as a REASON to imprison him.   Thundercloud.   "Hoka hey!"

Re:40 different people? (Score:1) by buck25 on 09:14 PM April 17th, 2004 EST (#6) (User #1576 Info) Not to mention that this man did not physically harm anyone. Many cases women kill and get less than this. I mean whatever. I guess because women's emotions are more important than even the physical integraty of a man's being it is ok for women to go around hacking off men's cocks but If a man so much as hurts a woman's feelings we should just lock his ass up and throw away the key.

Always dunk the lunk (Score:1) by Hunchback on 10:48 PM April 14th, 2004 EST (#2) (User #1505 Info) Obviously, the man is sick and needs a great deal of therapy. This sentence is comparable to murder or major drug conviction. As far as the number of victims, the sentences could have been served concurrently. The sentence was as severe as it was because the perp was male, the victims female. Compare this sentence with the slap on wrist received by the woman who paralyzed an airport with a bogus Al Qaeda bomb threat.

Insanity Is No Defense....If You Are A Male (Score:2) by Luek on 11:59 AM April 16th, 2004 EST (#5) (User #358 Info) Texas v. Laney: Jury finds mother Deanna Laney not guilty by reason of insanity for stoning two young sons to death. The recent case of the Texas mother who stoned two of her sons to death and permanently injured a third was found not guilty by reason of insanity. She will be on the street soon and all she has to do is take a couple of antidepressant pills everyday. Obviously the man in this phone harrassment story is insane as far as I am concerned and if not insane then extremely unbalanced. The state is willing to spend between $30K - $40K per year to keep this guy in prison for at least 15 years because a hand full of broads got their senitive ears hurt listening to his crank calls! Hmmm... I wonder if states can go nuts too? From the looks of it they can and do!

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