A California judge has caused outrage after slashing 15 years off the prison sentence of a pedophile convicted of raping a 3-year-old child.
Orange County Superior Court Judge M. Marc Kelly cut the child rapist’s prison term down to ten years from 25 years claiming that “he didn’t mean to harm” the 3-year-old girl that he raped.
He also backed the claim from child rapist Kevin Rojano that the young girl initiated the act of sodomy. Rojano said in his own defense that “she asked me to do it.“
Rojano was convicted on December 3 of sodomizing a child younger than 10 and lascivious acts with a minor. The pedophile was originally sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
However Judge Kelly then trimmed a massive 15 years off Rojano’s sentence, saying it would be “cruel and unusual punishment” to impose the maximum prison term because the 20-year-old lacked “callous disregard for (the victim’s) well-being.”
Prosecutors said Rojano was playing video games June 4 in the garage of his Santa Ana home when a 3-year-old relative wandered in, and investigators said the man became sexually aroused by the child and assaulted her.
The girl’s mother was unable to get into the locked garage as she looked for the child, and prosecutors said Rojano covered the toddler’s mouth to keep her from yelling.
