A school bus driver admitted to raping a 14-year-old student but will not spend a day in jail

The day of the final judgment in the hall of New York Court This was not as expected – at least for the prosecutor and the victim's family.

Thursday, Shane M. Piche, former bus driver District of Watertown, New York, was sentenced. Two months earlier, the 26-year-old had declared himself guilty of a third degree violation. According to the local newspaper Watertown Daily Times, Piche raped a 14-year-old student who was traveling on her way.

But instead of imposing a prison sentence on Piche, Justice James P. McClusky of Jefferson County gave him 10 years of probation and awarded him the lowest level of the bad offender registry in New York. The judge's decision was contrary to the hope of the prosecutors – and to the wishes of the victim's family.

"I wanted them to condemn Shane Piche to prison for the damage that he caused to my daughter," wrote the victim's mother in a statement posted on WWNY. "He took something from my daughter who will never come back and caused her difficult fight against depression and anxiety"

Piche's sentence joins a list of Convictions in cases of badual badault, many of them have generated a great debate about badual violence and whether courts take due account of victims' wishes.

More infamous was the case of the former swimmer of the Stanford University, Brock Turner, who was sentenced to six months in prison in 2016 after badually badaulting an unconscious woman. The outcome of the case provoked national indignation and compelled the California judge to pronounce the conviction.

In August, Dr. Shafeeq Sheikh He was arrested for raping a patient, a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Jury entrusted to Sheikh 10 years of probation.

And four months later, a former president of the fraternity of Baylor University, Jacob Anderson, was charged with violation on campus. In December, he reached an agreement with prosecutors that reduced his charges in exchange for a three years of probation, therapy and $ 400 fine.

In February, the mother of the victim of Piche told WWNY that the defendant was the driver of his daughter's school bus in the Watertown Public School District, about 113 kilometers north of Syracuse, New York State. The mother, who did not want to be identified, told the TV channel that Piche "had bought gifts for her daughter and he invited her to other minors' homes where he gave them alcohol ". Piche raped the victim at home.

Piche was arrested on September 5, 2018. He was charged with third-degree rape, of a first degree crime for illegally treating a child and endangering the well-being of a child.

As reported by the Daily times, Piche pleaded guilty on February 21, a minor charge for third degree violation. Prosecutors asked the judge to give Piche a Level 2 bad offender designation, which would have meant that information about residents of Piche had been posted online in the public bad offender registry.

But Thursday, McClusky has decided to place Piche at the lowest level, in 1, a place for offenders with "low risk of re-offending another victim," according to the state. Piche's future addresses will not appear in the online registry.

In making his decision, McClusky pointed out that Piche had never been stopped and that there was only one victim in the case, reported Daily hours

A pimp will not be allowed to be alone with a child under 17 and will have to pay USD 375 for legal fees and USD 1,000 for bad offender. As revealedit does not work for the school district anymore.

Despite the disappointment of the victim's mother, Piche's lawyer, Eric T. Swartz, defended the sentence.

"He will be a criminal for the rest of his life. He will be in the bad offender registry for a long time, "said Swartz WWNY. "Maybe not the rest of his life because of the level, but it's not something that has not caused him pain, and it's not something that's not happening." no consequences. "