du Pont heir Robert H. Richards IV
Our correspondent and close friend Meg Warren, a highly accomplished psychiatric nurse in Canada, is properly outraged by a sentence recently handed down by a judge in Delaware. So is my close friend and almost-cousin Emily Bazelon (we share an aunt on opposite sides of the family), a Slate senior editor and Truman Capote Fellow at Yale Law School.
“They can’t be serious!” Meg posted on my Facebook page.
“What is wrong with Delaware Superior Court Judge Jan Jurden?” Emily demanded in her Slate column.
What are both of these highly intelligent and insightful professional women talking about?
The fact that Judge Jurden suspended 48-year-old du Pont heir Robert H. Richards IV’s entire eight-year prison sentence for raping his three-year-old daughter because he “will not fare well” in the slammer.
To which Emily Bazelon responds, “To ask the obvious, so what?”
