Hinton only being found GUILTY on two counts is not justice for all these victims; but at least this prosecutor took the case to trial, and allowed a jury to hear the case.
Many times, like in the Whitmore Academy criminal case - the prosecutor allows a plea bargain! Jared Eldridge charged Cheryl Sudweeks with 5 counts of abuse, and 2 counts of hazing. Eldridge allowed Sudweeks to cop-a-plea to 2 counts of ATTEMPTED HAZING!
Hopefully, Hinton will get jail time. He certainly deserves it, IMO.
Eldridge did say the terms of the plea bargain were probably the same as the sentence Cheryl Sudweeks would have received if the case had gone to trial. Remember where the trial would have occurred: Utah looks after it's own, and to paraphrase Sue Scheff, I believe, Cheryl Sudweeks is a "Christian woman with a smile that just lights up a room". (
and a log-hurling technique that can send a kid flying down a flight of stairs) It's very possible Sudweeks might have been completely exonerated if a Utah jury had the task of deciding her fate. We have to take what we can get, and too often Justice is not served, only compromised on.
I hope some grown men who went through this shit in their childhoods give him some payback :lol: though OTOH I don't think Jail should be just a program with "unofficial" junior staff.
Ah, double standards. Yes, I have them for people as reprehensible as him, wtf do you want?
I do hope this sends a clear message to the industry. All I know is Lon Foolsfaggot is probably going to Sugarcoat and T.Who it up in a short time and WWASPS will have a fun time trying to explain this away.
I wonder what Sue-Sue will have to say?
Look at Hinton...if he goes to lock-up, he will not fare well. Hard cons will be trading Randall's booty around for packs of cigarettes.
Niles, I wonder what Sue will say about Hinton's conviction, too. It's been hinted in the past on Fornits that Scheff "protects" Hinton, and after reading the transcripts from WWASP vs. PURE, it becomes apparent they did have a close relationship when Scheff first became involved with WWASP. Scheff refers to speaking with "Randall" prior to placing her daughter in Carolina Springs during her testimony, and there seems to be no ill will toward Hinton at all. This is speculation, but somebody made her aware of the money that could be made from referring other parents to WWASP, which could be $1,000 paid to the parent making the referral, or a month's tuition paid to the program the referring parent's child was in. Sue became the "Queen of Referrals" for WWASP, and she convinced another woman to take the money for a split, so Sue wouldn't appear to be abusing WWASP's referral system. Only when WWASP's Richie decided Scheff's actions were "unacceptable" did Scheff get the idea to start PURE, and accused Carolina Springs of abusing her daughter...five months after Ashlyn had been removed from the program.
My facts above may be a little askew, I don't have my printed transcript in front of me (the best way to read that mess is to print the almost 800 pages), but it's close enough, and please correct any errors of my memory. Sue stays well-clear of slagging Hinton, and the witness/exhibit list requested some email correspondence between Scheff and Hinton that sounded chummy in the brief content description of the exhibit list .
I'll follow Hinton to any program he goes to after his convictions and start a blog about the program that hires him, listing Hinton's "achievements", ones probably not included in his resume.
On a sad note, this is nowhere near the justice Layne Brown and his family deserve for the inhuman torture Hinton and Jay Kay put that young man through. Regardless of the circumstances of Layne's death, Hinton's actions left that young man too damaged and scarred to function and find any joy, satisfaction or self-peace in his life. Layne's problems and subsequent death were a result of the inhumane abuses he suffered at TB at the hands of Hinton and Jay Kay, and charges of torture, physical and mental abuse are ones they won't answer to. As far as I'm concerned, Hinton needed to be charged with involuntary manslaughter of Layne Brown in light of the utterly detached and desensitized way in which Randall methodically destroyed that young man, while showing no remorse for his inhumane actions. Hinton reminds me of the Nazi war criminals when they were brought to trial - "I did as I vas told to do, I vas a ssssoldier following orderssss,"
Yeah, like Josef Mengele.
I'm angry about Hinton and sad about Layne, and I need to go to sleep, if I can. I wish Layne's mother could see her son's tormentor receive the punishment
real justice would mete out to Hinton. It might give her a little closure...not much, but some. The Lichfields and Kays are still operating with impunity, still thumbing their noses at WWASP survivors.
