http://corsicanadailysun.com/local/x2056581705/Dauben-found-guilty-Friday
I could spend a couple of hours of "I told you so" on this, but I will spare everyone that. I will have to do one though. Many have disagreed with the name of this blog..joey is a little kid. Oh he most certainly is:
"However, almost immediately began the punishment phase of the trial, and Dauben
cried on the witness stand as he described his various activities as publisher
of the online newspaper The Ellis County Observer."
That is not a man, that is a child and its really as simple as that. The authorities took away the kids toys and he cries about it.
Now, on to the penalty phase. I really can't say it any better than what the daily sun did:
"Dauben testified that as a publisher he had criticized the Ellis County District
Judge and District Attorney for giving child sex offenders probation. Instead,
Dauben had urged giving sex offenders an automatic death penalty. He said he’s
since had a change of heart."
"Dauben testified that as a publisher he had criticized the Ellis County District
Judge and District Attorney for giving child sex offenders probation. Instead,
Dauben had urged giving sex offenders an automatic death penalty. He said he’s
since had a change of heart.
Under cross examination by Assistant
District Attorney Andrew Wolf, Dauben said it would be hypocritical of him to
ask for probation when he hadn’t been merciful to men in his same position just
a year or two ago.
“I couldn’t agree with you more, Mr. Dauben, pass this
witness,” Wolf said smoothly.
When his defense attorney, Ed Jendrzey,
asked Dauben if he was asking the jury for probation, Dauben paused for more
than two minutes, looking at the floor and pursing his lips before saying that
if the jury were to hold him to the same standards to which he had held
convicted sex offenders in Ellis County then they would not give him
probation.
“If you’d be merciful and give me probation, that’s great,” he
said. “If you were to hold me to the same standards as the Ellis County
Observer, then no.”
Dauben described one case in which he falsely accused
a man of sexually abusing his children based on the word of the man’s estranged
wife. In that instance, he was arrested and convicted of the fraudulent use of
identifying information in Ellis County.
“I made a mistake,” he said. “I
falsely accused a man of the same thing I’m accused of.”
At that time,
Dauben was put on probation and told he couldn’t get on the Internet anymore.
His probation was revoked when the newspapers continued publishing. Dauben said
he didn’t do it, though.
It was unclear Friday evening if Dauben realized
the irony of the situation — that he claims to be falsely accused, just as he
falsely accused others; that he advocated the death penalty for child predators,
but asked for mercy for himself after he was convicted of it; that within half
an hour of his conviction, he took the stand and cried as he described his role
as sole defender of children.
“I’ve learned I’m not a judge,” he said. “I
didn’t have mercy on people. I was not forgiving of people.”
These
revelations came to him the second time he went to jail, Dauben
said.
Dauben also said he accepted the jury’s decision, but he refused to
admit having sexually assaulted a 14-year-old boy in 2007 while at a church
retreat at Navarro Mills Reservoir, insisting that he was falsely accused. When
Wolf asked him if the purpose of probation wasn’t rehabilitation, and wasn’t a
necessity of rehab that the person admit guilt, Dauben dithered and finally said
yes, adding: “I’m not going to admit to something I didn’t do.”
So once again we have Joey basically saying I take full responsibility for my actions, but I didn't do it. I would still say the mental institution should be on the table here.
