Molester of girls gets no prison time in plea deal
A Fort Wayne man accused of having sex with two girls – one who “functions at a 7-year-old level,” according to court documents – will spend no time in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of sexual misconduct with a minor.
Steven R. Wells, 49, had faced more than a dozen felony charges, including child molesting and sexual misconduct with a minor. He pleaded guilty Friday in Allen Superior Court to two counts of child molesting.
Judge Fran Gull sentenced him to a three-year suspended prison sentence and ordered him to spend four years on probation. The sentence was outlined in an October agreement Wells reached with prosecutors.
He was also ordered not to contact the girls.
Eleven other charges were dismissed, court records said.
Read more: https://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/courts/20191119/molester-of-girls-gets-no-prison-time-in-plea-deal
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this happen where white male felons almost always get off lightly. See, e.g., https://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/courts/20181013/judge-gives-man-40-years-for-rape
In the case in the link, the perpetrator was found guilty of the single rape of an adult woman with the "mental capacity of a kindergartner" by a jury. The same judge literally threw the book at him. Per the photo in the link, he does not appear to be a white male.
Of course, he also had a previous record that included two felonies.
But still, no time at all in prison for the first one, whose acts were continuing and ongoing for years and who was allowed to plead guilty to lesser charges? 
