Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin Pardoned A Man Convicted Of Raping A Child

[Sugar Cookie]

Because of a pardon handed down by Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin this week, a man convicted of raping a child in Kenton County walked out of prison a free man on Wednesday.

Officials say he will not have to register as a sex offender, and he can even apply to have the conviction wiped from his record.

Instead of serving the 23-year sentence a Kenton County jury recommended, 41-year-old Micah Schoettle is free after less than 18 months behind bars.

The prosecutor in his case, the victim’s family and others on social media have railed against Bevin’s decision to pardon Schoettle, one of 428 Kentuckians he pardoned or whose sentences he commuted earlier this week.

The middle-school student who first accused Schoettle in 2016 told Florence police he had repeatedly sexually assaulted her since she was 9 years old.

Though a jury convicted Schoettle of rape, sodomy and sexual abuse in 2018, he walked free with the governor’s pardon Wednesday.

In the pardon, Bevin wrote that the case relied on more testimony than physical evidence, and he did not believe the victim’s accusations were true, the Associated Press reports.

Law enforcement will not monitor Schoettle, since he will not have to register as a sex offender in Northern Kentucky, according to Commonwealth’s Attorney Rob Sanders.

Sanders said the governor’s office never contacted prosecutors, victims or local law enforcement about clemency for Schoettle.

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[Prettypink513]

He's gone too fuckin far

 

[Sejanus]

It is like Bevin asked for a list of the vilest and most likely to reoffend.
What a bastard.

 

[Inferus]

Kentucky: where corruption is the norm and sex stays in the family.

 

[rushman]

Goodbye political career

 

[Ramona the brave]

Someone paid him off.
Loser.

 

[Fellofftheporch]

It is like Bevin asked for a list of the vilest and most likely to reoffend.
What a bastard.

Don't most sex offenders reoffend? Here in the state of Washington SO's get pathetically short sentances. Not only are their sentences a joke but they are segregated while in prison for their protection. From what I have seen I dont think they can be rehabilitated. Especially when they get next to nothing for the crimes they commit.

 

[mobiusclimber]

Republicans are all rapists, pedos or pedo/rapist defenders. From Trump on down, every last one, to a man. Sick, vile and just plain evil.

 

[Turd Fergusen]

Democrats are all rapists, pedos or pedo/rapist defenders. From Clinton on down, every last one, to a man. Sick, vile and just plain evil.

 

[Totemic]

Republicans are all rapists, pedos or pedo/rapist defenders. From Trump on down, every last one, to a man. Sick, vile and just plain evil.

Show me on the doll where these "republicans" have hurt you?

Seriously man, both fucking parties are a joke, neither one gives a flying fuck about you, me, or any other individual, just so long as someone keeps feeding them cash.

See how fucking ridiculous it looks having it thrown back in your face? You can't make a blanket statement like that. It doesn't fucking work that way

 

[mobiusclimber]

Donald Trump wasn't just accused by over twenty women of sexual assault and rape. He bragged about doing it. He wasn't just accused by teenagers of walking in on them changing in the dressing room at the Miss Teen USA pageant. He went on Howard Stern and bragged about it. He raped and strangled his first wife. He supports pedophile Roy Moore and is being supported by pedophile and pedo-enabler Jim Jordan. So there is no equivalency here. Democrats kicked out Al Franken. What have Republicans done but embrace rapists and pedophiles?

 

[Satanica]

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Bevin says there was no physical evidence of her abuse.

According to Bevin, the 9-year-old girl couldn't have been raped because her hymen was intact.

In a previous interview, Kenton County Commonwealth's Attorney Rob Sanders has said Bevin never contacted his office or the police about the case before pardoning Schoettle.

"Rape cases, child molester cases, murder cases where the victims have all been done a grave injustice by our former governor, and it's disappointing. I was someone that supported [Bevin] and believed in him, and I'm disgusted in myself for having done so," Sanders said.

"Matt Bevin never contacted me. Never contacted anyone from my office. Never contacted law enforcement. Never contacted victims. I have a very hard time believing he knew anything other than what Micah Schoettle wanted him to know," Sanders said.

Now, Schoettle is a free man with no supervision.

"He's not a registered sex offender. He's not under supervision. He's not going through sex offender treatment. It's like it never happened other than the fact that we all know it did," Sanders said. "Do you think we can cure sex offenders? I don't. I've been doing this a long time. I've never known sex offenders to be cured. At best, they can be taught to control their urges, but no, this guy hasn't been in long enough to even begin sex offender treatment, much less finish."

Matt Bevin defends his decision to pardon man convicted of raping 9-year-old girl

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Former Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin is again defending his controversial last-minute pardons. During an interview with WHAS Radio he specifically focused on the case of Micah Schoettle. Micah Schoettle sexually raped and sodomized a 9-year-old child. A Kenton County jury...

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[JackBurton]

Goodbye political career

He knew that already, that is why he's doing this.

He's pissed he was voted out of office, so he is punishing society by letting all these violent criminals back out on the streets.

It's one of the most shocking and abhorrent miscarriages of the justice system, one of the most vile abuses of a public office, in American history, and somehow there is not a damn thing anybody can do(or will do) to stop it.