[Press release from Humboldt County District Attorney's office]
On Wednesday, July 27, 2011, the Honorable W. Bruce Watson sentenced Wayne Thomas Bukowski, 37, of Arcata, to 20 years 8 months in prison for the continuous sexual abuse of a minor, dissuading the minor from testifying against him and committing a felony while out on bond. The sentence was the maximum allowed by law. Bukowski is also required to register as a sex offender for life.
This case was prosecuted by Deputy District Attorney Kelly Neel.
Good work guys.
MMmmm. No comment by Rose about the DA? I’m sure she can find fault somewhere….
Not much controversy on this one… lock him up and throw away the key..
A few weeks ago, the prediction from the Gallegos-haters was that this child molester would only get probation.
It’s good that he got the maximum sentence, but it’s NOT good that the maximum sentence isn’t life. These people don’t stop, ever. Apparently, it’ll be a while before the lessons of the Jaycee Lee Dugard case actually manifest themselves in the justice system.
Yes, Cristina. What would be ideal, IMO, is for sentences to be contingent on a cure. We don’t release patients from mental hospitals who are a danger to themselves or society, why should psychopathic criminals like pedophiles and rapists be treated any differently?
Agreed.
There is no “cure” for these people. With any luck he’ll die before the 20 years is over.
What will happen is after he serves his 20 plus 8 months minus good time, he will be determined to be psychologically incapable of not being a danger to himself or others and be committed to a mental institution for the criminally insane.
No word from Rose yet? Maybe Neel is the one DDA she’s not critical of, who knows?
I heard that in Norway the maximum sentence for any crime is 21 years. If that’s true then I guess even that mass killer can only get is 21 years!?!?
“There is no cure for these people” at this time. That is my point. Releasing them after a set period of punishment while they still suffer from their dangerous mental illness is irresponsible. Whether mentally ill people should be in standard prisons is another complex issue.
If that were true we wouldn’t have released pedophiles in virtually every neighborhood across the country, Mark.
The practice of releasing pedophiles is coming to a crashing end, it is called post prison civil confinement. California is one of the 18 states that has it. It passed in 1995. These laws have been upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States, as they mandate treatment, and are not a “punishment” therefor not double jeopardy or punishment for the same crime twice.
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/03/03/us/20070304_CIVIL_GRAPHIC.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/us/04civil.html
What they can do isn’t necessarily what they do, Mark.
Just sayin’…
On another note:
Jerry Brown cut the funding completely for CAMP for next year.
http://marksailorsarcatanow.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/brown-cuts-camp-funding/
I watched Jaycee Lee Dugard blanketed across national news…like all those priests, the M. Jackson case, and so many others…a crime that, apparently, is commonly remedied by monetary compensation.
American’s obsession with sexuality must be related to our Protestant, Calvinist past because our entire economy is premised on the abuse of children. “Justified” by the national security provided by low consumer prices…while they last…
To heal our nation from the abuses of an imperialist culture, we must stop censoring those abuses and begin dealing with it, just like the victims of sexual abuse must do.
Otherwise, a victim of sexual abuse becomes the next abuser, just as abused nation/nations will rise to become the next empire.
If human history is any indication.
I lived in Tahoe for 20 years, and was in South Lake Tahoe at the time of the Jaycee kidnapping. When she was found, I wrote about the effect of the kidnapping on the community on my (now-defunct) blog. I don’t want to ramble about it here – I literally screamed with joy when I read that she was alive – but I really hope you don’t think the victims believe “monetary compensation” is a real remedy. In Jaycee’s case, this is a person who has virtually no real-world skills, and who is going to need years of heavy-duty counseling to be able to cope with the incredible ordeal that she underwent. The compensation is justified, but it’s no exchange for a justice system that actually works. HAD it worked, she never would have been kidnapped in the first place.
P.S.: Like you, I also have a very large bone to pick with the long-reaching effects of Puritanism in America.
My grudge starts further back, with patriarchy itself.
Kudos to Paul Gallegos and Kelly Neel. Justice was done.
Yes, it’s abhorrent and illegal…and it pales in comparison to the millions of children who have contracted cancer working the cobalt mines of the DRC for our cell phones and computers. As a result of the mines, millions more who consume the fish from the Congo River rarely live longer than 45 years.
Oh, you’re “liberal press” didn’t tell you????
I’m glad the creep is off the street, but having our anemic media megaphone drone on and on about priests and celebrities masturbating with youths, and their obsession with extraordinary crimes, is part of the circus the Romans used to distract the peons.
Our era’s epic irony.
The last anonymous’ comment is quite true – as are several others’ (Christina and PJ as usual) – but would you anonymi number yourselves or pick psuedonyms, please? It would be nice to be able to tell one of you from another – no one cares who you actually are (or I don’t anyway). Though today (so far) I think you are one person.
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The last anonymous’ comment is quite true – as are several others’ (Christina and PJ as usual) – but would you anonymi number yourselves or pick psuedonyms, please? It would be nice to be able to tell one of you from another – no one cares who you actually are (or I don’t anyway). Though today (so far) I think you are one person.
The last anonymous’ comment is quite true – as are several others’ (Christina and PJ as usual) – but would you anonymi number yourselves or pick pseudonyms, please? It would be nice to be able to tell one of you from another – no one cares who you actually are (or I don’t anyway). Though today (so far) I think you are one person.
11:20pm has a good point. But you undermined your credibility with one statement: “….your liberal press.” The fact that you use that tired and false assertion. “Liberal Press?” Shows that you’re another brainwashed house-slave, furthering your master’s agenda. You’d have more luck finding Bigfoot than a liberal press that has any exposure. Sure, there is Common Dreams, FAIR, The Nation, and a few others. But these publications are on the fringe. We Socialist, Liberal-Progressive, Free-born Americans, are kept off the mainstream airwaves, so lovingly handed over to the Wealthy New-American-Centurions. Not only our airwaves, and data-streams; but our treasury and our natural resources, and our courts, and our water, and our freedom, and our rights and our future, and our decisions, and our reputation, and our courts….and on, and on, and on.
Don’t be a stooge for the aristocracy. People are Revolting.
Moviedad has great contributions, but you need to read 11:20 again.
Putting “liberal press” in quotes denotes sarcasm.
If we had a REAL liberal press, tens of millions of Americans would know the immensity of suffering taking place in the DRC for our cell phones and computers, and the other half of eligible U.S. voters might begin registering. Journalism once thrived on such ironies, especially the duplicity of condemning child abuse while completely ignoring “First-World” dependence upon it.
Hence, the reference to ancient Rome.
My apologies, the sarcasm wasn’t apparent to me.
I’m pretty “Pavlovian” when it hear that BS: “Liberal Press”
I do hereby withdraw the “Stooge” comment. Heraldo, please mark this down in your “Book of Secrets” thank you.
…sad…in the ‘bad old’ Terry Farmer days he would have gotten 100+ years. Good job Paul! (PC 269 et al)
PS: speaking from first-hand, in-Court experience yall.
Wayne is my dad. He will be on parol once he is done with his sentence I’m glad this is finally ended. 2 years and I finally got my justice
If you have any questions feel free to reply. Please don’t be crude though
Some of them do get better.
I knew Wayne, He was a good man.
He had a family.
@Carl butt he raped his daughter good family man right?