GirlChat #599687
"The Amy and Vicky Act responds to Paroline and does three things that addresses the unique nature of these crimes.
First, it considers the total lifetime harm to victims from the initial sexual grooming to the last possessor." Grooming? So, just what is the restitution required to compensate for eye-contact being returned? For asking if she's OK? Lesson: be a cheap date. Go dutch. Those Chuck E Cheese bills will be tallied during the "grooming cost analysis." Erm.......... How about pre-grooming? Will they include the non-offending parent's instructions to not backtalk. To be obedient? To defer to adults? Second, it requires meaningful and timely restitution. Third, it allows defendants who have contributed to the same victim's harm to spread the restitution cost among themselves. This is incentive to fabricate false charges. "If everyone who downloaded a song from me via P2P has to pay Vicky, then I can pay less." It seems to me that the whole shebang may unravel again as the SCOTUS decision hinged on the injustice of making one liable for the actions of all. And this tells them that they may redistribute costs among themselves, but it doesn't say just how strangers can evaluate the proportional responsibility of other strangers; let alone how they can include the presently undetected parties who were "distributing" at the same time. Traditionally, parties are responsible proportionally for their roles in a group enterprise. The girls who only went "shopping" once at Paris Hilton's were charged with lesser offenses than the Bling Ring members who made return trips. They're saying here "You are charged for 100% of Vicky. Work out any redistribution schemes among yourselves." Dante |