UPDATE: Judge rejects request to reduce sentence of teacher Jon White

[teachercrime]

Jon White

A Champaign, Illinios County judge refused Friday to reduce the sentence of a former Urbana teacher convicted of child molestation.

The lawyer for Jon White, 28, formerly a teacher at Thomas Paine Elementary School in Urbana, argued that Judge Harry Clem relied on incorrect information by a sex offender evaluator about White's risk to reoffend in coming up with his sentence of 48 years in prison. Urbana attorney Brett Olmstead also argued the sentence was excessive given the circumstances of the crimes.

Clem sentenced White in early April on eight counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse to which White pleaded guilty in February. White admitted that he placed a banana in the mouths of eight blindfolded young girls for his own sexual gratification. The acts occurred between August 2005 and December 2006 while White was a second-grade teacher in Urbana.

Clem said he took into account the number of victims, the length of time White engaged in his conduct, his position of trust and the need for deterrence in arriving at his sentence.


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[TheSkwerl]

I'm glad that the system is standing up and realizing that a LOT of these offenders will eventually go on to re-offend. Judges need to make the sentences that are handed down to stick and not have the attorneys try to pull a "cop out" and get them reduced. This is one of the things that REALLY pisses me off, when figures of authority abuse their position to offend children. It also brings up the topic of institutions not doing what they are supposed to do by doing EXTENSIVE background checks.

[teachercrime]

Originally Posted by TheSkwerl

I'm glad that the system is standing up and realizing that a LOT of these offenders will eventually go on to re-offend. Judges need to make the sentences that are handed down to stick and not have the attorneys try to pull a "cop out" and get them reduced. This is one of the things that REALLY pisses me off, when figures of authority abuse their position to offend children. It also brings up the topic of institutions not doing what they are supposed to do by doing EXTENSIVE background checks.

I agree. It's time the entire country decides not to put up with this and all types of abuse.