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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJeremy Schwer of Indianapolis won't serve any time for raping 6 year old cancer stricken daughter
An Indianapolis man will not serve time in prison for molesting his young daughter who has cancer, Marion Superior Court records show.
Jeremy Schwer, 41, pleaded guilty Tuesday to felony child molesting.
The crimes occurred after the girl was diagnosed with cancer and her parents started alternating taking care of her at night, court records state.
Deputy Prosecutor Courtney Curtis, who is division chief of the special victims team, said she had argued for Schwer to serve nine years in prison followed by three years on probation. But the girl's mother, who filed for divorce, wrote a letter asking the court not to send Schwer to prison because she hoped he would help financially support their children.
After doctors found a brain tumor in 2013, the girl spent several months in the hospital and went through a year of chemotherapy.
Schwer was charged in 2015 after his now-estranged wife called the Indiana Department of Child Services. Their daughter, then 6 years old, told her mother that she had touched her father's "peepeeluca," the family's word for private parts, according to court records. The little girl later told officials that her father also touched her "peepeeluca" and had her sit on his "cat tail."
The girl, now 7, said her father told her not to tell or he would go to jail, court records state. She eventually told her mother it happened every night when she slept with her father.
On Tuesday, Marion Superior Court Magistrate Steven Rubick sentenced Schwer to 12 years of probation, court records state. He also required Schwer to register as a sex offender, continue treatment at a counseling center and vacate the family's home so his estranged wife and children could move back in.
Jeremy Schwer, 41, pleaded guilty Tuesday to felony child molesting.
The crimes occurred after the girl was diagnosed with cancer and her parents started alternating taking care of her at night, court records state.
Deputy Prosecutor Courtney Curtis, who is division chief of the special victims team, said she had argued for Schwer to serve nine years in prison followed by three years on probation. But the girl's mother, who filed for divorce, wrote a letter asking the court not to send Schwer to prison because she hoped he would help financially support their children.
After doctors found a brain tumor in 2013, the girl spent several months in the hospital and went through a year of chemotherapy.
Schwer was charged in 2015 after his now-estranged wife called the Indiana Department of Child Services. Their daughter, then 6 years old, told her mother that she had touched her father's "peepeeluca," the family's word for private parts, according to court records. The little girl later told officials that her father also touched her "peepeeluca" and had her sit on his "cat tail."
The girl, now 7, said her father told her not to tell or he would go to jail, court records state. She eventually told her mother it happened every night when she slept with her father.
On Tuesday, Marion Superior Court Magistrate Steven Rubick sentenced Schwer to 12 years of probation, court records state. He also required Schwer to register as a sex offender, continue treatment at a counseling center and vacate the family's home so his estranged wife and children could move back in.
http://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2016/03/01/indianapolis-man-wont-serve-time-prison-molesting-daughter-cancer/81161376/
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Jeremy Schwer of Indianapolis won't serve any time for raping 6 year old cancer stricken daughter (Original Post)
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exboyfil
(17,862 posts)1. Lots of people with families go to jail for less serious offenses
The judge should be kicked off the bench.
valerief
(53,235 posts)3. Or gang-raped off the bench. nt
valerief
(53,235 posts)2. I hope they gave him his AR-15 back, too.
This country is super-fucked.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)4. Good thing he didn't have any pot on him
or he'd be in REAL trouble.
rockfordfile
(8,702 posts)5. unreal. A rapist is let go.
surrealAmerican
(11,360 posts)6. that poor kid.
What kind of country have we built here, that the mother would ask that he not go to jail for the harm he has inflicted on that child? She must be drowning in medical expenses, and not see any way out.
Vinca
(50,269 posts)7. Probation? For this guy? WTF is wrong with that judge?
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)9. Pedophiles are in high places, too. J/S.
RandiFan1290
(6,229 posts)8. Must be related to (R) Dennis Hastert
Some people are allowed to get away with raping children.
Initech
(100,065 posts)10. This is so fucked up on so many levels.