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AmericaTheBrave posted...

But you can with a client that did all that to a little kid?

Yes. I don't like to do it, but I can. It's my job, and someone has to do it. Everyone deserves their right to counsel in a criminal case.

Like I said, animals are a personal trigger to me. Other attorneys I know won't take sex abuse cases involving children. I definitely understand that. Perhaps if I knew a victim of child sex abuse IRL, I'd feel differently.

We're also not addressing the fact that some of my clients involved in sex abuse of minors are people I believe to actually be innocent. Others....well, I do view statutory rape differently.

For instance, I had this girl who was in her early 20s. She had a sexual relationship with someone who was 15. That was wrong. I knew she needed to take accountability and pay for what she did, but I don't view it quite the same as I would some 40-year old having a sexual relationship with an 8-year old. The victim certainly didn't view it the same either.

At the time of sentencing, he was 18, and he was horrified that she was getting into trouble (mandatory reporter case, separate from the other case I talked about in another topic). I got her a deferred judgment. She did no time in jail/prison, but she still had to pay for what she did. She's on the sex offender registry. She's not able to go to her own son's pre-school graduation because she can't step foot on a school property.

Yea, I'm able to do cases like that.