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PositionNo Comment - Stacey Rambold was lightly sentenced for statutory rape - Brief article

Montana District Judge G. Todd Baugh sentenced a former high school teacher, Stacey Rambold, to only thirty-one days in jail for the statutory rape of Cherice Morales, who was fourteen when the crime occurred in 2008. The district attorney had deferred prosecution of Rambold for three years, according to the AP, on the condition that he undergo treatment as a sexual offender. But he broke the terms of that deal by having "unsupervised visits with minors," the AP said. At sentencing in August, Judge Baugh said Morales was "older than her chronological age" and had...

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