What makes you think the judge was racist?That's true. Like I said, attorneys should know their judges and this attorney should have known he had a racist judge on his hands. Of course, there is no way anyone could imagine this stupid judge was going to make the family pay with worry when the criminal is still walking the streets.The judge was right to speak to the victims and the way they handled the race issue with their daughter but in no way did that have any bearing on the violent nature of the crime and whether the criminal should be in prison. He belongs there and should have gone.
So wait ... the 3 yr old daughter - not her parents - has been traumatized. Her sense of security - not her parent's - has been destroyed. The judge - if he actually said and felt those things - was off the friggin' wall and his feelings about that 3 yr old's trauma should have had no bearing on the sentence (which clearly it did).
What I am saying is that there is a way for her to be de-traumatized if properly handled properly, starting with black friends they have. I do agree with you that had no bearing on the sentence and the sentence was clearly wrong. It showed biases on the part of the judge.
The family seemed to be describing the damage done to their 3 yr old so that the judgment might reflect the human damage done by the crime.
Instead the judge got on his high horse and was "offended."