Is there any crime committed by an “oppressed” identity politics monster too vile for the pro-crime media to defend?
Ever since Ketanji Brown Jackson’s decision to give a child porn offender a light slap on the wrist and apologize to him came up, the media has been frantically spinning. And now the Washington Post decided to look Wesley Hawkins up and give him a sympathetic profile.
Before the Washington Post gets started, let’s look at a quick recap of the case.
The lowest sentence of the seven was in the case of Wesley Hawkins. He was 18 years old when he downloaded scores of videos and images containing child pornography in 2012, the New York Times reports.
The prosecutor in the case had recommended a two-year sentence, the U.S. Probation Office had recommended an 18-month sentence, and the U.S. sentencing guidelines had recommended a sentence of 97 to 121 months in prison. The defense lawyer sought a day in prison.
Hawkins pleaded guilty to downloading and trading child pornography, and Jackson sentenced him in November 2013, according to the New York Times. Jackson sentenced Hawkins to three months in prison and six years of supervised release.
In other words, nothing. And radically below the sentencing guidelines.
According to a statement of offense to which Hawkins stipulated, he downloaded and shared videos and images of prepubescent children to YouTube and a file-sharing account.
Note the prepubescent part. It’s important because one of the sexually abused children was as young as 8 years old. This is also important because Ketanji Brown Jackson will lie about it.
There were videos of 11 and 12 year olds committing sexual acts, a video of an 11-year-old being raped by an adult male, a video of an eight-year-old committing a sexual act, to name a few. Police found 17 videos and 16 images of boys on his computer and phone, many of them violent. The teen later pleaded guilty.
This is horrifying evil. And it’s what the media is now trying to clean up and justify.
In a sentencing memorandum, Hawkins’ public defender said his client initially reacted to the images that he saw with “confusion and shock rather than arousal.” He viewed more child pornography over the next several months, but he “did not amass a large collection,” the memo said.
The natural response to the “confusion and shock” was to keep consuming child porn.
“Importantly, Mr. Hawkins’ connection to the images he viewed appears to be one of identifying with his age-mates emotionally, instead of exploiting them sexually. Mr. Hawkins said he found the fellow teenagers in the photos easier to connect with than adults,” the memo said.
Again, prepubescent children. Hawkins was 18.
In imposing the sentence, Jackson acknowledged the defense claim that Hawkins should not be considered a pedophile because his age was close to that of the children depicted in the images, according to the New York Times.
And again, some more context before the media starts spinning and the Washington Post starts ginning up sympathy for a pedophile.
He later uploaded five videos of pornographic content involving children from his computer to YouTube, which is what tipped off the police. An undercover officer emailed him, suggesting the two had ‘similar interests.’ Hawkins then emailed the cop two videos, and wrote that he was interested in males age 11 to 17.
So Hawkins did share the material and solicited it. He started off with a target age range beginning with 11. That is not close to his age. And he kept on doing it.
The sealed request demonstrated that Hawkins did not commit any sexual crime or violation of his conditions, but, ‘despite being in treatment for more than five years,’ Hawkins ‘continues to seek out sexually arousing, non-pornographic material and images of males 13 to 16-years-old.’
Now on to the Washington Post’s sympathetic profile which is headlined as, “Wesley Hawkins, talk of the Brown Jackson hearings, describes life after pornography sentence”.
If the Bezos social justice paper had anything resembling a soul, it might want to do a sympathetic profile of some of the abused children, not the perpetrator.
Instead, we learn from the Washington Post that, “His mornings had been filled with looking for his next job, his afternoons rereading one of his favorite books by Jamaican novelist Marlon James, he said, and his nights bingeing his favorite Netflix series “The Last Kingdom.”
And there’s a handfed attack on Republicans that I’m sure wasn’t carefully prompted by the reporter.
“Of the attention his case is getting now, Hawkins noted that many in the GOP continued to support candidates who faced allegations of sexual misconduct. “While I’m not defending my actions, because, again, they are undefendable, I feel that their hypocrisy should be pointed out.”
But he manages to admit that she did give him a slap on the wrist.
“I wasn’t very happy that she gave me three months, though after reflection when I was in jail, I was hearing from other people who said it was their first time arrested and they got five years, six years.”
Now Hawkins’ enabler will sit on the Supreme Court and be able to protect pedophiles and all sorts of criminals she sympathizes with from there.
WPM says
According to the article he upload child porn many times over a couple of months , Jackson at SC hearing made it sound like it was once for 15 minutes? What difference does it make if were a well “read” and got good grades in high school who was his favorite author? He was looking for and uploading images of 8 year old getting sexual abused.
Bikinis not Burkas says
What are your thoughts on the Queensland Police in Australia?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4959726/Police-shared-child-porn-paedophiles-year.html
gravenimage says
I guess this was a sting operation. But letting it go on for *a year* must have resulted in much harm to children. Unclear on the concept *at best*.
somehistory says
Disgusting. Any “judge” who sympathizes, and even empathizes, with one who abuses, wants to abuse, rapes, wants to rape, children is of like mind, heart and soul.
I would like to know just how many videos depicting children…of any age…engaged in sex or being raped by an adult, this “jackson” person has viewed. How many times has “she” been “confused” by those images so that she had to keep looking?
The normal, a.k.a. moral, reaction to a sudden photo of something as horrible as child porn, is to shut it down as quickly as possible and to be offended and angry that such has been done to a little child.
These people, “jackson” included, are not “moral.”
And of course, an “accusation” of misconduct equals and exceeds the actual buying, selling, making and responding in an immoral way to child porn…per this slime maggot who wants to rape children.
Infidel says
The phone lines of Democrat senators up this November, as well as those of Romney, Murkowski and Collins, should be lit up, and people should demand that they not vote for KBJ. Force Biden to come up w/ a better choice
gravenimage says
Hear, hear, Infidel! I’ve written to my Senators.
Johnny B says
Acceptance and even encouragement of sexual predation of children is the ultimate evil and if we ever get that point, it’s going to be Hell on earth. There’s a reason why generational Satanists are so obsessed with sacrificing and raping children and doing things to them you cannot even imagine. It’s beyond sick and disgusting; it’s the ultimate evil. If you cannot see that, the Devil himself has blinded you..
Wellington says
This woman (yes, she is a woman) is bad news all around. She has embraced the racist and distorted 1619 Project and, effectively, doesn’t like America. Like Obama she wants to fundamentally transform America. I want America to continue to improve, which was the goal of the Founding Fathers, but I do not want a fundamental transformation of the USA. To do so is both vile and stupid.
CogitoErgoSum says
I know the content of Wesley Hawkins’ character but I was curious about the color of his skin since skin color was so important in the selection of Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee. Huh, what a surprise. Wesley Hawkins has black skin – so yeah, I’m a racist for noticing that.
somehistory says
I didn’t look for the color…I could tell from the way the “judge” bent over backwards to help him avoid being in prison for any real time. And ‘wesley’ is more often a name for Blacks. And the Jamaica thing. Many blacks like what comes from that island.
all circumstantial, I know, but many people go behind bars due to circumstantial evidence only. there is not always an eyewitness to the crime, nor a confession. the account from the wp was too sympathetic to put his color of skin.
Keith O says
It’s not the colour of the skin that we have to be concerned over, it’s the colour of the heart.
And both in this case are dark!
somehistory says
Yes, it’s the color of evil.
CogitoErgoSum says
Convince Joe Biden of that.
Keith O says
Could be done, once you get past the dementia!
CogitoErgoSum says
Maybe it could be done – if you put him in a room full of rats – but then again he might just feel more at home with them. Might have to threaten to cut off his supply of ice cream cones to get him to change his mind.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Keith.
gerard says
Two basic Facts:
1) Porn is very popular
2) Having child porn is subject to very long, long sentences.
Every School District should inform all students (at an age-appropriate time) of the penalties for having child porn.
Keith O says
There have been similar questions asked about high profile cases like this here in Australia, where judges have given incredibly light sentences to rock spiders.
This led credence to be given to claims from some of the now adult victims, of high profile offenders operating in rings which passed child victims around, much like the mudslime rape gangs do.
Any and I repeat, ANY individual or group who commit these horrendous crimes against innocents, including children, should be dealt with in the harshest manner that a civilised legal system can devise.
It is fitting and right that the motives behind Brown’s slap on the wrist be investigated and brought to the publics attention.
gravenimage says
Washington Post Runs Sympathetic Profile of Child Porn Offender Protected by Ketanji Brown Jackson
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*Repulsive*. I consider these grotesquely light sentences for sex offenders the worst part of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dismal record.
More:
According to a statement of offense to which Hawkins stipulated, he downloaded and shared videos and images of prepubescent children to YouTube and a file-sharing account.
Note the prepubescent part. It’s important because one of the sexually abused children was as young as 8 years old.
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Yes–just *sickening*. These weren’t videos of, say, mature-looking 17-year-olds where their being underaged might be seen as a technicality. These are prepubescent *children*. I was molested at the age of eight; I know how young this is.
More:
There were videos of 11 and 12 year olds committing sexual acts, a video of an 11-year-old being raped by an adult male, a video of an eight-year-old committing a sexual act, to name a few. Police found 17 videos and 16 images of boys on his computer and phone, many of them violent. The teen later pleaded guilty.
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*This* is what a nominee to the Supreme Court is trying to whitewash.
More:
This is horrifying evil. And it’s what the media is now trying to clean up and justify.
In a sentencing memorandum, Hawkins’ public defender said his client initially reacted to the images that he saw with “confusion and shock rather than arousal.” He viewed more child pornography over the next several months, but he “did not amass a large collection,” the memo said.
The natural response to the “confusion and shock” was to keep consuming child porn.
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And he also traded it with his fellow pedophiles. This is clearly not the case of a kid who downloaded child porn once by accident and never did so again.
More:
“Importantly, Mr. Hawkins’ connection to the images he viewed appears to be one of identifying with his age-mates emotionally, instead of exploiting them sexually. Mr. Hawkins said he found the fellow teenagers in the photos easier to connect with than adults,” the memo said.
Again, prepubescent children. Hawkins was 18.
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*What crap*. An 18-year-old is an adult–the idea that he “connected with” *prepubescent children* as young as eight is sickening. This is not the case of some teenager who is immature and feels more at ease hanging out with younger kids–this is a pedophile targeting vulnerable children.
More:
In imposing the sentence, Jackson acknowledged the defense claim that Hawkins should not be considered a pedophile because his age was close to that of the children depicted in the images, according to the New York Times.
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Utter bullsh*t. And the claim that he was sentenced to three months in prison is also a lie–in the US any sentence of less than a year is served in jail, not prison. So this thug was in with not just other serious criminals, but also scofflaws with too many unpaid parking ticket or possession of others’ prescription drugs.
James Lincoln says
Regarding the Wesley Hawkins case, Ketanji Brown Jackson needs to be asked:
Based upon your legal education / training, what is the legal definition of an adult?
gravenimage says
James, wouldn’t she need to be a biologist to determine that? sarc/off
James Lincoln says
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OLD GUY says
Jackson will get approved no matter what, she fits the lefts need for a BLACK supposed WOMEN on the Court.
gravenimage says
Grimly likely so, OLD GUY.