The Amero Case, cont'd

MANIFESTO

"The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think."
— H. L. Mencken
I've blogged about the poor substitute in the eastern part of the state who found herself in a class with a rogue computer. Popups and spyware caused various porn sites to appear on her screen, and the poor neophyte was powerless to do anything about it. At her hearing she was found guilty of causing harm to minors and was scheduled to be sentenced in March. Alas, no such sentencing has yet to take place.

[A] few weeks ago, as Amero faced sentencing, Assistant State's Attorney David J. Smith filed a startling motion in Superior Court:

"The state has not completed a full examination of all the issues which may affect its position at the sentence hearing."

Translation: We were wrong. We are trying to figure a CYA way out of this mess.

They still are. Amero's sentencing Thursday was delayed again until June 6 - the fourth postponement since March. She's still convicted of four counts of risk of injury to a minor, facing a potential 40 years in jail

So the rush to judgment that obsessed some state pecksniffs a year ago now seems to have been a mistake.

But, that's the way things work these days. In people's doctrinaire desire to think of the children, adults are being accused of all sorts of sordid activities when the truth of the matter is that no danger exists. After all, ten-year-olds don't pay much attention to anything, anyway.

At any rate,"inevitably, Amero will be exonerated [and we'll] all deserve an apology for this insulting case."