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Hawley Goes Off on Biden SCOTUS Nominee for Sentencing Child Porn Offender to Just 3 Months, 'Apologizing' to Him
'You're apologizing to him, you're saying you're sorry for the anguish this has caused him,' Hawley noted in his questions.
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Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson answers questions from Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)
Hawley Goes Off on Biden SCOTUS Nominee for Sentencing Child Porn Offender to Just 3 Months, 'Apologizing' to Him
By C. Douglas Golden March 23, 2022 at 8:37am
Is three months in prison an appropriate sentence for someone who possessed sick images of children being sexually abused?
President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, apparently thought so.
That’s the sentence she handed down in a 2013 child pornography case despite sentencing guidelines calling for up to 10 years in prison.
The light sentence was the subject of the most intense back-and-forth of the second day of Jackson’s confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, as Biden’s nominee was grilled by Missouri GOP Sen. Josh Hawley over her sentence.
(Jackson’s sentencing habits in child pornography cases may be the most contentious issue with her nomination, but they’re far from the only one. Here at The Western Journal, we’ll be providing news and analysis on the hearings and the subsequent vote you won’t be reading in the mainstream media. You can help us bring America the truth by subscribing.)
“I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around it,” Hawley said during his questioning of Jackson, according to Politico. “We’re talking about 8-year-olds, 9-year-olds, 11-year-olds and 12-year-olds.”
In the case, United States v. Hawkins, 18-year-old Wesley Hawkins had possessed roughly two dozen images and videos of child sexual abuse. The prosecution had recommended at least two years in jail for Hawkins. Under the PROTECT Act of 2003, meanwhile, the recommendation was 97 to 121 months.
Not only is three months extraordinarily lenient given those numbers, but Hawley said Jackson told the defendant during sentencing that she didn’t think his crimes signaled “an especially heinous or egregious child pornography offense” and that she had “no reason to think you are a pedophile.”
“Then you apologized to him,” Hawley said. “And I just have to tell you, I can’t quite figure this out. You said to him, ‘This is a truly difficult situation. I appreciate that your family’s in the audience. I feel so sorry for them, and for you, and for the anguish this has caused all of you. I feel terrible about the collateral consequences of this conviction.’ And then you go on to say, ‘Sex offenders are truly shunned in our society.’
“I’m just trying to figure out, judge, is he the victim here, or are the victims the victims?”
“You’re apologizing to him, you’re saying you’re sorry for the anguish this has caused him. … You say earlier in the case, you talk about how heinous these crimes are and you describe them, to your credit,” he continued.
“Senator, I, again, don’t have the entire record,” Jackson replied. SHE IS LYING
“I remember in that particular case, I considered it to be unusual, in part for the reasons that I described,” the nominee said. “I remember in that case that defense counsel was arguing for probation, in part, because he argued, that here we had a very young man, just graduated from high school, he presented all of his diplomas and certificates and the things that he had done.”
She added, “I sent this 18-year-old to three months in federal prison under circumstances that were presented in this case because I wanted him to understand that what he had done was harmful, that what he had done was unlawful, that what he had done violated the law and needed to be punished not only by prison but by the many other things that the law requires of a judge who is sentencing in this area.”
WHAT DID THE BLACK BOY DO?
United States District Court for The District of Columbia ...
https://archive.org › download › gov.uscourts.dcd.161652 › gov.uscourts.dcd.161652.21.0.pdfWesley Hawkins, possessed child pornography on his personal computer at his residence in Washington, D.C. On various dates during that time frame, the defendant downloaded and/or received from one or more individuals over the Internet images and videos depicting child pornography. Case 1:13-cr-00244-KBJ Document 21 Filed 11/15/13 Page 1 of 16
On or about December 25, 2012, the defendant uploaded five video files from his
computer to an identified web address controlled by You Tube, Inc.
The videos include: (1) two
prepubescent boys masturbating each other; (2) two prepubescent boys without any clothes, with
one boy using his penis to anally penetrate the other boy; (3) three prepubescent boys engaged in
sexual activity with each other, including oral and anal penetration; (4) three prepubescent boys
engaged in oral and anal sex with each other; (5) two prepubescent boys engaged in oral and anal
sex with each other. Law enforcement learned about this upload through a Cybertipline Report
(“cybertip”) from You Tube, Inc., to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
(“NCMEC”).
On February 4, 2013, your Affiant, working in an undercover capacity (“UC”), sent an
email to the defendant, at one of the email addresses identified in the first cybertip
(js760151@gmail.com), stating, “Cant remember where i found you but i think we are into the
same, yng, lil, boy etc.” The UC provided an online ID if the individual wanted to chat. The
individual replied, “who is this.”
The UC provided a name and said, “saw your email
somewhere i think on image share or youtube, thought we may have similar interest, if not no
worries.”
The individual [Wesley Hawkins] asked, “do u have vids to share.” During the course of the email
exchange, the individual said he was 18, that he likes children ages 11 to 17, and that he has
videos to share. At approximately 6:22 p.m. on February 4, 2013, the individual sent via email
to the UC a video of a prepubescent male masturbating. At approximately 8:00 p.m. on February
4, 2013, the individual sent via email to the UC a video of a prepubescent male masturbating.
The UC also exchanged emails with the defendant at the email address
CONCLUSION
WHEREFORE, for all of the reasons set forth herein, the government recommends that
the Court sentence the defendant to a term of imprisonment of 24 months, to be followed by 96
months (8 years) of supervised release, with the recommended conditions of supervision. The
defendant is further required by statute to register as a sex offender for a minimum period of 15
years.
Respectfully submitted,
RONALD C. MACHEN JR.
UNITED STATES ATTORNEY
So, the black judge sentenced the queer pedophile black boy age 18 to 3 months in prison.