In March of 2015 in Oakland County, Michigan, Kathryn Ronk was sentenced to 6-15 years in prison for having sex with a 15-year-old male student. Initially charged with 5-counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, like Abigail Simon, with a maximum sentence of 25-years to life in prison and a mandatory minimum of 8-25 years, she plad guilty to 2 counts of third-degree CSC and was thus sentenced to “only” 6-15 years in prison in a country in which, during the 1990s, the average time-served for murder was less than 6-years and the average time-served for all violent felonies was approximately 4-years. And now, as opposed to the 1990s, the decade when the U>S. began to “get tough on crime’:

Washington– More that half (57 percent) of violent offenders who were released from state prison in 2016 served less than three years before their release, the Bureau of Justice Statistics announced today. About 1 in 25 violent offenders served 30 years or more before their release.

The average time an offender served in state prison in 2016, from the date of admission to initial release, was 2.6 years. The medium amount of time served…was 1-3 years. Persons serving less than one year in state prison made up 40 percent of first releases in 2016…Based on 3016 release data, the average time served before initial release by state prisoners who were sentenced for a violent offense was 4.7 years and the medium time was 2-4 years…

And unlike Kathryn Ronk, a first-offender convicted of a nonviolent and victimless and malum probibitum felony, I’m certain that at least 90% of these violent offenders were recidivist male criminals, most of them with histories of violence and criminality beginning at age 13 or 14 or 15.

And when she’s released from prison after “only” 6 or 8 or 10 years (?), she’ll be subjected to all the post/extra incarceration punishments, including registration for life or at least 20-30 years as a uniquely vile and execrable criminal, theoretically more dangerous and likely to commit violent and mala in se crimes than myriads of brutes and savages who’ve committed dozens and scores of felonies but have never been convicted of a sexual offense albeit most of them have raped or gang-raped men in jails and prisons and/or women (including underage adolescent girls) in the free world.

But, according to Michigan Sex Crime Attorneys, she’s a “very lucky lady indeed:”

Because Ronk, a former Spanish teacher at a Catholic High School, was accused of having sex with her student in a number of places, the crimes were charged in two separate counties….As a result, although she has already been sentenced Oakland County, her sentence in Macomb County is only now coming around.

But in this regard, Ms. Ronk is a very lucky lady indeed. After pleading guilty to a single charge of third-degree criminal sexual conduct in Macomb Couty, Circuit Court Judge Mary Chrzanowski sentenced Ronk to another 6 to 15 years in prison. But what makes this good news instead of bad, is the fact that the judge ordered the sentences served concurrently.

This is a great turn of events for Ronk who, at age 30, may spend as little as six years behind bars. What this means is that she, unlike many other teachers convicted of student-related CSC crimes, has a chance at getting out of prison with enough time to have a chance at life again. (sexcrimeattorneys.com., 7-12-2015.)

(Ponder the absurdity: if an adult women and a young man under age 16 have sex twice, intercourse and/or fellatio in the bedroom and “sexual contact” in the living room, and one room is in one county and the other room in another jurisdiction, she can be prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced in both jurisdictions. And if she pleads guilty to third-degree criminal sexual conduct, as did Mrs. Ronk, who is married, incidentally, she might have to serve two sentences of 6-15 years in prison if the second judge to sentence her doesn’t rule that the sentences be served concurrently.

Yes, what luck! “As little as 6 years behind bars” and then a lifetime of at least 20-30 years of draconian/Orwellian persecution! By this reasoning, Abigail Simon is also “very lucky,” since she has a chance of serving “only” 8-years in prison and thus the good luck and blessing of “having a chance at life again.”! How grateful they should be for the leniency they’ve been afforded!

To repeat: in a sane and just and rational country, neither woman would have even been charged with a crime but simply punished, non-criminally, by dismissal and revocation of their licenses and expulsion from the profession. Or, at worst, charged with a misdemeanor and, if convicted, sentenced to 3-6 months of probation and 50-100 hours of community service. And perhaps also fined modestly. I would aruge that neither woman should have been sentenced, if guilty of a  misdemeanor, to even  a  day in jail much less 6 or 8 years in prison, if “lucky,” and possibly much longer! Nor to sex-offender treatment, quasi-totalitarian surveillance, electronic parole-monitory with an ankle=tether/”bracelet,” and public sex-offender registration.

In Michigan, apparently, even most lawyers who defend those accused of sex-crimes are CSA victimologists, dogmatists who believe the laws are sane and just and rational, and that sentences of 6-15 years or 8-25 years in prison and all the other penalties are not at all excessive and draconian for first-offenders convicted of nonviolent and victimless and malum prohibita crimes that are legal acts in dozens of other nations, including European countries, punishment that is “cruel and unusual”for women who’ve never committed a violent or other malum in se crime in their lives and never will and are not a “threat to society” or to anyone nor even a danger to “re-offend” by having sex with another young man under statutory age.