As Countless People Rot in Jail for Weed, Child Predator Ex-Congressman Getting Out Early

 Last year, Anthony Weiner, the disgraced congressman from New York  was sentenced to prison after he pleaded guilty to sending a 15-year-old  child horrifically graphic texts, images of himself, and videos.  Although he was sentenced to 21 months for his crimes, the child  predator will be getting out of jail early according to the Federal  Bureau of Prisons. “This projected release date includes credit for good conduct time  earned and good conduct time that may be earned throughout the remainder  of his sentence,” the Bureau of Prisons told CNN. 

Highlighting the stark special treatment the state gives child predator lawmakers over those caught with a plant is the case of Lee Carroll Brooker. Brooker  is a 78-year-old veteran, who unlike Weiner, did not attempt to have  sexual relations with a child, but is spending life in prison. Brooker attempted to self-medicate with a plant the state deems  illegal and for this, he was sentenced to life in prison—with no  possibility of ever getting out early, like the child predator  Congressman. Unlike Weiner, Brooker’s actions had no victim, yet he was  sentenced to die in a cage. Sadly, this special treatment of child predator politicians is the  rule, not the exception. 

In April of 2016, Dennis Hastert, former  Speaker of the House and admitted child rapist, was sentenced to 15  months in prison after he was caught paying his victims to keep quiet.  

However, he was released early last year — two months before finishing his already insultingly lenient sentence. To highlight just how two-sided this justice system in America is,  below are the court documents detailing the actions of Weiner before his  sentencing. Lee Brooker had a plant, just like hundreds of thousands of  others currently rotting in jail right now. Anthony Weiner pursued  sexual relations with a child. Prosecutors filed these documents in Manhattan Federal Court before  the Weiner was sentenced asking that the judge use the sentencing as an  opportunity to send a message to other pedophiles. 

The Government respectfully submits this memorandum in  connection with the sentencing of Anthony Weiner, which is scheduled for  September 25, 2017, following his guilty plea to transferring obscene material to a minor.  Although the defendant’s self-destructive path from United States  Congressman to felon is indisputably sad, his crime is serious and his  demonstrated need for deterrence is real. The non-custodial sentence that Weiner proposes is simply inadequate; his crime deserves time in prison. For  the reasons set forth below, the Government respectfully requests that  Court sentence Weiner to a term of imprisonment within the range of 21  to 27 months. 

To ensure that the judge handed down the maximum sentence for the  convicted pedophile, US Attorney for the district of New York, Joon Kim,  graphically detailed the scenario in the prosecutor memorandum as it  unfolded. 

In the evening of January 23, 2016, a 15-year-old girl  (the “Minor Victim”) initiated contact with the defendant by sending him  a direct message on Twitter. Over the next several hours, the Minor  Victim and Weiner exchanged a series of messages, ranging from the  mundane to the provocative. Early in the exchange, the Minor Victim  revealed to Weiner that she was in high school. Despite knowing he was  communicating with a high school student, Weiner participated in  increasingly suggestive exchanges, telling the Minor Victim, among other  things, that he thought she was “kinda sorta gorgeous.” Their  communications continued the next morning on Facebook messenger, then  moved to Kik, and at some later point, Confide and Snapchat. The latter  three all are messaging and photo-sharing applications that delete  messages and images once viewed.

As January turned to February, their intermittent  exchanges grew more lascivious. This was despite the fact that there  could be no reasonable doubt in Weiner’s mind that he was chatting with a  minor – in addition to having revealed that she was a high school  student, the Minor Victim told Weiner that she was getting her learner’s  permit. She explained in Facebook chats that she has “parents that wouldn’t approve of some of the things” she does, and that she likes “older guys,” “[b]ut that’s illegal.” The defendant correctly observed, “You are young,” in one Kik message.

Against that backdrop, between February 17 and 23, 2016,  Weiner and the Minor Victim participated in three video chat sessions on  Skype.

There is no dispute that the Minor Victim repeatedly  suggested that she and the defendant participate in video chats on  Skype. Those suggestions were not, however, one-sided. For example,  Twitter records reveal that during their first exchanges the night of  January 23, 2016, at some point after the Minor Victim had suggested  that they Skype, the defendant said “Leave the complex stuff for Skype.”  That night as well, after a suggestive exchange, the defendant said  “Maybe Skype someday.” Thus, although it was the Minor Victim who  initially sought out Weiner, as the Government readily concedes, Weiner  immediately responded to the Minor Victim’s overture and willingly  participated in the offense conduct thereafter.

It was then that the Minor Victim made clear that she was  not just a minor – she was, in fact, only 15 years old. That did not  stop Weiner. During the latter two Skype sessions, on February 18 and  23, 2016, and in a Snapchat communication on March 9, 2016, the  defendant used graphic and obscene language to ask the Minor Victim to  display her naked body and touch herself, which she did. He also sent an  obscene message to the Minor Victim on Confide, describing what he  would do to her, if she were 18. Part and parcel of these disturbing –  and criminal – exchanges, the defendant also sent the Minor Victim adult  pornography. In approximately March 2016, after several months of  intermittent exchanges, communications between the defendant and Minor  Victim largely stopped. The Minor Victim made efforts to re-engage, but  was met with limited responsiveness.

The instant conduct was revealed to the public and law  enforcement in September 2016, when the Daily Mail published the Minor  Victim’s account of her communications with Weiner after she  participated in a paid interview.

The description of Weiner’s conduct that his victim provided to investigators was truly sickening. 

“He had some rape fantasies. It would just be him showing up at my house when my dad was out of town,” the girl told the Mail. “And just start undressing me, being forceful, asking me if I want to be dominated, strange questions.” Weiner reportedly once told the girl, “I would bust that tight p–y so hard and so often that you would leak and limp for a week,” and sent her bare-chested pictures of himself. 

In spite of the sickening details, laid out in the prosecutor  memorandum above, Anthony Weiner pleaded guilty to a single charge of  transferring obscene material to a minor after turning himself in to the  FBI. And now, the disgraced child predator Congressman is reaping the  reward of this most corrupt system.