"I didn't corrupt those young children" - Edward Felix Benoit

[DamagedGoods]

Before I say anything else, let me state that Judge Raymond Childress is bloody awesome.

I searched for this, but couldn't find it posted. His mugshot looks really familiar though.

Disgusting, wrinkly pervert, 78 year old Edward Felix Benoit, claimed that he gave in to the advances of a 12 year old girl and her 7 year old brother after being propositioned by them repeatedly. Finally being unable to resist their charms he began telling them about his masturbation habits and paying them for various sex acts. Because you always have to pay the person doing the seducing. I love how he thinks this is a valid excuse. As though it would matter whether it was true or not. They could be the sluttiest creatures on the planet, you do NOT fuck with 12 and 7 year olds. Period.

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/...hild_mole.html

As Judge Raymond Childress was preparing to sentence a 78-year-old Slidell man for molesting two children Tuesday morning, the old man interrupted. He had something to say, he told the court. "I didn't corrupt those young children," Edward Felix Benoit told the judge. "They were corrupt a long time before they met me."
[...]

"The old man," as the kids called him, began "talking nasty" to them, describing his masturbation habits and preferences in pornography. Finally, in June of last year, he paid the girl $100 to let him perform oral sex on her for five minutes. He gave the boy $30 to touch Benoit's genitals.

The pre-teenage girl, Benoit told Childress Tuesday morning, made her 7-year-old brother touch his genitals. It was all her doing, he claimed.

"Keep talking," Childress told him. "You're not making any points with me."
[...]

"Needless to say, the defendant has not exhibited any remorse," Childress said from the bench. He scolded Benoit for blaming his young victims.

"I didn't say it was their fault," the white-haired man in a jailhouse jumpsuit snapped back.

Childress had enough. He read Benoit's charges, and the accompanying sentences from the Louisiana code book.

For both sexual battery and oral sexual battery, he was facing 25 to 99 years. Childress chose 40 years on each count, 25 to be served without the benefit of parole or suspended sentence.

Benoit grumbled and shook his head.
[...]

"Let's just for good measure run all of these consecutive to one another," Childress said -- handing down a combined sentence of 130 years, 54 years to be served without the possibility of parole. Benoit would be 132 years old before the faintest hope of release.

"Get him out of here," Childress told his bailiffs.

As they led Benoit from the courtroom, he stopped.

"Can I get credit for time served?" he asked, and the courtroom shook with laughter.

ETA: His "young children" bit has me thinking of this:

[AngelFire]

All those other idiot judges should take lessons from this one. He gets a hi-five!!! The perv gets a hard swift kick to his aging balls.

[CbabyRKO]

That judge is awesome. I laughed way too hard when he said lets for good measure run the sentences consecutively. And this dip had the audacity to ask for time served like that's gonna do him any good!