The scandal of a child molester given a soft sentence by Los Angeles District Attorney
George Gascón may finally mark the beginning of the end of America’s disastrous experiment with “progressive” justice.
At the age of 17,
James Tubbs went into a ladies’ public bathroom, pushed into a stall and forced one hand down the pants of a 10-year-old girl in a violent sexual assault only halted by someone else coming into the bathroom.
When Tubbs was identified as the attacker some years later, following arrest on another offense, progressive Gascón insisted on trying the case under juvenile rules — despite Tubbs being well into adulthood.
Gascón was further induced to soften the sentence by the fact that Tubbs now identifies as a woman and goes by the name “Hannah.”
Concerned for Tubbs’ supposed risk of victimization as a transgender woman in an adult prison, Gascón cited a probation report that had recommended home confinement. Tubbs was eventually sent to a facility for violent juveniles, despite being 26 at the time.
“The things he did to me and made me do that day was beyond horrible for a 10-year-old girl to have to go through,” Tubbs victim said in vain. “I want him tried as an adult for the crimes he committed against me.”
Gascón’s choices here reflect progressive beliefs that date back to the dawn of the liberal era, summed by the 1762 claim of French philosopher Rousseau, “Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains.”
That is: People are naturally good, and we only do bad things because society hurts and distorts this natural virtue.
Progressives argue that if only we could meet crime with compassion, all of us will become the good person we naturally are deep down.
We see this belief behind every liberal attack on boundaries, rules or limits. It’s especially evident, and especially dangerous, in the push to replace drug prohibition with “harm reduction,” to defund the police in favor of “community programs” and to swap prison for therapy and rehabilitation, as if it all will magically make crime go away.
Across the country, progressive prosecutors have taken office in San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia and Manhattan, promising to transform society with empathy instead of just locking up criminals.
And you believe people only do bad things because society is broken, of course you’ll err on the side of the second chance. And you’ll do so even when the crime is sexual violence perpetrated by a mentally ill repeat offender on the cusp of adulthood, against a defenseless 10-year-old girl.
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