Parents who 'gifted' daughter to man get prison sentence
Source: Associated Press
Updated 4:40 pm, Wednesday, July 19, 2017
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) A Pennsylvania judge on Wednesday sentenced a married couple to up to seven years in prison each for giving their oldest daughter to a cult-like figure who sexually assaulted the girl and her five sisters.
Bucks County Judge Jeffrey L. Finley said the actions of Daniel and Savilla Stoltzfus were unimaginable as he sentenced them following their convictions on child endangerment charges.
"The idea, again, that an individual in any community would hand off their children into the bed of another person is just incomprehensible," Finley said, adding that he would have given them longer prison sentences if legally allowable.
Daniel Stoltzfus, 44, who pleaded no contest, was sentenced to 3½ to seven years. Savilla Stoltzfus, 43, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced to three to seven years.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Sentencing-set-for-parents-who-gifted-daughter-11299104.php
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)get you 20 to life. What the actual fuck?
TygrBright
(20,783 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)in Virginia, at least....
Aristus
(66,583 posts)But street drug use, that reduces pharmaceutical industry profits, so off to prison you go. God Bless America.
riversedge
(70,577 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)since the parents can't legally "give" their children away.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)samnsara
(17,677 posts)OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)our laws can be. But we have to face this crap. This is not just about thinking rape is not as "bad" as selling dope. This is saying women's lives do not matter as much as ___________________ and there are many fill-in-the-blank items pigs can find. The only thing worse is the selling of children for exploitation.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)keithbvadu2
(37,126 posts)Our uber-Christians can defend them on freedom of religion.
(Sarcasm thingie goes here.)
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