Uhhh....SAY WHAT??? Justice in Juneau County
Tough week this week and it's only Wednesday. I spent the first part of the week sitting in the Clerk of Courts office..pouring over criminal files. I can't help it, but something is really bothering me about the Patrick Gage case, and it's more than he is a suspected child molester. It's that signature bond our District Attorney, Scott Southworth , advocated for. I might understand defense counsel attempting to explain why there would be such a need....but the prosecutor? Especially when the guy is up on (5) counts of child sexual assault...(2) victims....over 7 years? As the prosecutor, Scott had to believe that Gage was guilty...after all his office pressed the charges. One would also expect that he, like most of us realize, once a child rapist...always a child rapist. These guys just don't wake up one morning and decide that they will rape a child...it's a progression - so if guilty, then most likely there have been other victims...and if not confin