Even more stupid judge tricks

Benoit Guay will be out of jail in less than 5 years after commiting at least 8 violent rapes. The Gazette is correct. This is outrageous. It all just brings our judicial system into disrepute.

8 years for 8 rapes - outrageous
The Gazette
Published: Friday, June 22, 2007
For months, police forces in Quebec worked in tandem, sharing information and leads, as they tried to track down a rapist who was attacking young women with apparent impunity in a number of suburbs north of Montreal. He used a knife or gun to threaten his victims.
When police finally had enough information for a sketch of the rapist, they joked it looked a lot like one of their fellow police officers, Benoit Guay, a 13-year veteran of the Montreal force.
It was no joke. Guay was sentenced this month to eight years in prison on eight charges of armed sexual assault. That would work out to just one year per rape if the justice system didn't calculate time spent in prison before and during trial counts as double. He spent 16 months in preventive custody, so has just over five years left to serve.
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This would be outrageous in any event, but to fully grasp exactly how lightly this man, a police officer, is getting off, let's look at the details of his final sexual assault.
Still happy in the glow of her 15th-birthday celebrations, she arrived by bus in St. Jerome when a man grabbed her, threatening her with a gun. He raped and sodomized her. It is difficult to see where in this a judge might find ground to believe Guay can be safely released into the community in fewer than six years.