Mike Kent gets 17 yrs on kiddie porn charge

S23246G · Senior Member

Kay County Deputy sentenced.

blah · Senior Member

I get the paper. I can read.

17 years as a child pornographer and police officer, I bet that'll be a breeze.

robert · Member

This is a very sick subject.I`m shocked!This man was my neighbor for years,and his now ex-wife,at that time,ran one of the children homese here in town.God,this just makes my stomach turn!Atleast so far it sounds like the legal system somewhere is working,but I still think He should have gotten LIFE! Thank god it did`nt happen here,because He probally would have gotten probation,or we just would`nt have heard anything about it.It`s the Cowley County Way! bleh

S23246G · Senior Member

"I get the paper. I can read."

You can also be a real _____. I put it in here because someone might come back to this thread in a year or two, and if I just referenced the article, without posting it, they wouldn't know what we were talking about.

Try not to act like you have the biggest brain in the room... it doesn't suit you.

MB · Veteran Member

He used to be my neighbor when I was little... Let me guess I'm inflating the story for admitting that? :) It just goes to show that you really can't trust ANYONE! My mother read about this a while ago in the Ponca City paper and she told me about it and it shocked us- We had contact with him a few times, Nothing sinister, But living in the country and having people trespass... But we remembered him as being really nice and helpful. Let's just hope he has a really hard time in prison- Being a sheriff AND a perve! And what a puss, Trying to kill himself? You did the crime stand up like a man and face the consequences of your actions! I agree that he is a waste of a person, But that was trying to go the easy way out.

motherof2 · Senior Member

Wow, he has himself in a pickle there! I can see why he was waiting for that train. They'll roll out the welcome mat for him in prison.

At least we are just using our computers to vent! Sick, sick, sick...

S23246G · Senior Member

And it wasn't the paper where I found this, it was newscow.

blah · Senior Member

Sorry, it was a ____ move, I'll admit it. I guess I get bored of reading stories about someone who did something bad and then you talking about how bad they are or how you would kill them (or believe they should die).

me2 · Veteran Member

CANT HANDLE THE TIME, DONT DO THE CRIME!!!!!! Thats my philosophy!

Greenpiece · Veteran Member

I fully support the death penalty,, and probably to a higher degree than most of you,,, it is not the publics job to work to support those who chose not to live by our laws. if you chose not to live by our law and you know that the death penalty is upheald in the country , then you have accepted the fate of your crime.

I do not belive in LIfe sentances, there is no reason to store a human in prison for life, if he cannot be rehabilitated, exicution is the only answer, I also belive in torture, plucking eyeballs, skining alive, and choping off limbs fingers and what not,,, good thing i am not the {speading ticket Judge eh?)

If Severe penalties are inforced crimes will dissapear.... ,many an inocent person has died to make a free nation

blah · Senior Member

Death penalty isn't a crime deterrent

Death penalty cost more money then life in prison

robert · Member

Now that`s just plain stupid! It is our responsibility,as a society to take care of these sick animals,because that is exactly what defines the difference between us and them,but I do agree that we need much stiffer sentences for these sick offenenders,EX-COPS OR NOT! furious

me2 · Veteran Member

Blah, how would the death penalty cost more than a person sitting for life in prison, especially if it a young person? Personally, don't think I would want to sit in prison the rest of my life. All I can say is that the law has d*** well better be sure that person really has committed the crime before they are put to death!

Greenpiece · Veteran Member

Cost of Life Without Parole: Cases Equivalent To Death Penalty Cases		Cost of Death Penalty Cases
1. $34,200/year (1) for 50 years (2), at a 2% (3) annual cost increase, plus $75,000 (4) for trial & appeals	= $3.01 million	$60,000/year (1) for 6 years (5), at a 2% (3) annual cost increase, plus $1.5 million (4) for trial & appeals	= $1.88 million
2. Same, except 3% (3)	= $4.04 million	Same, except 3% (3)	= $1.89 million
3. Same, except 4% (3)	= $5.53 million	Same, except 4% (3)	= $1.91 million

robert · Member

Because unless the person has been killing,and can not be contained,then I guess they have to be put to sleep.I just don`t feel all of the responsibility,of a persons sickness is all theirs.It also belongs on the head of our Society as a whole,I am a Father of 5 beautiful children,and if someone ever harmed one of them,I know that I would break the law on that person,and I would be wrong,but look at how our society perpetuates the beauty of our children,it`s sick! On televison,even clothing manufacturing companies.Have you been clothes shopping,for your daughter at Stage,or Pennies,lately IT`S B.S. ! I can`t believe how WE as a society have let this country go to H___! This just my opinion,but we can`t reduce ourselves to killing unless there is no other choice.How I see it,is that the change for our nation sarts right at home with US,what we watch,what we buy,and how we present ourselves in public! idea

blah · Senior Member

This is a summary of a report done by the KS legislatures in 03

Heres a link to the report: http://www.kslegislature.org/postaudit/audits_perform/04pa03a.pdf

In its review of death penalty expenses, the State of Kansas concluded that capital cases are 70% more expensive than comparable non-death penalty cases. The study counted death penalty case costs through to execution and found that the median death penalty case costs $1.26 million. Non-death penalty cases were counted through to the end of incarceration and were found to have a median cost of $740,000. For death penalty cases, the pre-trial and trial level expenses were the most expensive part, 49% of the total cost. The costs of appeals were 29% of the total expense, and the incarceration and execution costs accounted for the remaining 22%. In comparison to non-death penalty cases, the following findings were revealed:

The investigation costs for death-sentence cases were about 3 times greater than for non-death cases.
The trial costs for death cases were about 16 times greater than for non-death cases ($508,000 for death case; $32,000 for non-death case).
The appeal costs for death cases were 21 times greater.
The costs of carrying out (i.e. incarceration and/or execution) a death sentence were about half the costs of carrying out a non-death sentence in a comparable case.
Trials involving a death sentence averaged 34 days, including jury selection; non-death trials averaged about 9 days.

Notice in the report that Kansas also saves money in death penalty cases as compared to other states, and it also says a life term with no parole would reduce the costs of such cases.

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/FactSheet.pdf
Another site that has a lot of interesting facts, including these:

84% of the experts agree that the death penalty is not a deterrent.

The California death penalty system costs taxpayers $114 million per year beyond the costs of keeping convicts locked up for life.
Taxpayers have paid more than $250 million for each of the states executions. (L.A. Times, March 6, 2005)
In Kansas, the costs of capital cases are 70% more expensive than comparable non-capital cases, including the costs of incarceration.
(Kansas Performance Audit Report, December 2003).
In Indiana, the total costs of the death penalty exceed the complete costs of life without parole sentences by about 38%, assuming
that 20% of death sentences are overturned and reduced to life. (Indiana Criminal Law Study Commission, January 10, 2002).
The most comprehensive study in the country found that the death penalty costs North Carolina $2.16 million per execution over the
costs of sentencing murderers to life imprisonment. The majority of those costs occur at the trial level. (Duke University, May 1993).
Enforcing the death penalty costs Florida $51 million a year above what it would cost to punish all first-degree murderers with life in
prison without parole. Based on the 44 executions Florida had carried out since 1976, that amounts to a cost of $24 million for each
execution. (Palm Beach Post, January 4, 2000).
In Texas, a death penalty case costs an average of $2.3 million, about three times the cost of imprisoning someone in a single cell at
the highest security level for 40 years. (Dallas Morning News, March 8, 1992).