INAPPROPRIATE RELATIONSHIP WITH A TEENAGER; HOWEVER, HE WILL NOT
BE FACING ANY JAIL TIME, EVEN THOUGH THIS TEENAGER WAS FOUND
TO HAVE PERFORMED ORAL SEX ON HIM, ON CAMPUS.
NOW, THE OFFICER IN QUESTION IS JACOB DELGADILLO, AND HE IS
CHARGED WITH TWO FELONY COUNTS OF INDECENCY WITH A CHILD,
INCLUSIVE INTEGRAL PERFORM ORAL SEX ON HIM AND FONDLING HER.
BASED ON THE SENTENCING FROM THE JUDGE AFTER HE PLEADED GUILTY ñ
IT WAS A PLEA DEAL ñ HE WILL SPEND FIVE YEARS ON PROBATION,
AFTER PLEADING GUILTY ON WEDNESDAY TO HAVING AND
IMPROPER RELATIONSHIP WITH THE STUDENTS.
HE WAS ALSO FACING A POSSIBLE PUNISHMENT OF 20
YEARS IN PRISON, BUT HE AGREED TO SPEND FIVE YEARS ON
DEFERRED ADJUDICATION, A FORM OF PROBATION THAT MEANS SHE
WILL NOT HAVE A CONVICTION ON HIS RECORD IF HE
SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETES THE PROBATION.
HE ALSO WILL NOT HAVE TO REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER.
NOW, I WANT TO CUT AWAY TO A LOCAL NEWS REPORT ON THE
STORY, SO YOU JUST ñ JUST SO YOU GET MORE OF THE DETAILS OF
WHAT HAPPENED ON CAMPUS.
NO VIDEO.
ALL RIGHT, WELL WE DO NOT HAVE THE VIDEO.
I DO WANT TO NOTE THAT THIS TOOK PLACE IN TEXAS, AND, I
DON'T KNOW, I WOULD MAKE THE ARGUMENT THAT IF A
30-YEAR-OLD MALE FROM A DIFFERENT DEMOGRAPHIC HAD
SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH A 14-YEAR-OLD
GIRL, MAY BE THE SENTENCING WOULD BE A LITTLE DIFFERENT.
I DON'T KNOW, I COULD BE WRONG.
NOPE, NO IT WOULDN'T.
IT ISN'T.
MARLBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL IN LOS ANGELES HAS THIS EXACT SAME
THING, RECIDIVISTS OVER AND OVER AGAIN, AND THE SCHOOLS
PROTECT THIS GUY.
LIKE THAT HAPPENS.
IT'S CRAZY.
IT'S MESSED UP, AND I THINK IN THESE SITUATIONS, AND THEY SAY
THAT THE FAMILY OF THE GIRL IS SUPPORTIVE OF THIS PLEA DEAL AND
THEY ARE OKAY WITH IT, BUT I THINK, SINCE YOU NEVER KNOW HOW
THIS IS GOING TO AFFECT THE VICTIM IN THE LONG RUN, I THINK
IN THESE SPECIAL SITUATIONS ñ AND THIS IS JUST A THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT ñ MAYBE SHE SHOULD RESERVE THE RIGHT TO, YEARS
LATER, GO BACK AND SAY YOU REALLY DID SCREW ME UP AND I
DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THE FULL RAMIFICATIONS OF IT UNTIL I WAS
30.
AND UP UNTIL THEN, THEY SHOULD KNOW IT'S POSSIBLE THAT THIS
GIRL IS GOING TO COME BACK AND GIVE THIS GUY THE FULL
PUNISHMENT THAT HE SHOULD HAVE FACED WHEN IT FIRST STARTED,
JUST TO GIVE THAT I DO FEEL THAT THERE IS SOMEONE OUT THERE THAT
HAS THE KIND OF POWER OVER HIM THAT THESE SICK BASTARDS WIELD
OVER UNSUSPECTING, VULNERABLE YOUNG STUDENTS; WHETHER IT'S A
MALE PREYING ON A FEMALE, OR A FEMALE PREYING ON A MALE.
WHEN THE GIRL WAS TESTIFYING IN COURT SHE TALKED ABOUT HOW HE
HAD INVITED HER SOMEWHERE ON CAMPUS TO MEET WITH HIM, BEFORE
ANY RELATIONS HAD BEGUN, AND THAT HE STARTED BY PUTTING HIS
HAND ON HER LEG, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, MOVING HIS HAND UP HER
OUTFIT, AND, LOOK, THERE IS OBVIOUSLY A CLEAR, YOU KNOW,
LEGAL VIOLATION THERE CONSIDERING THEIR AGE, BUT YOU
ALSO HAVE TO KEEP IN MIND THAT THERE IS AN IMBALANCE OF POWER
THERE.
YOU HAVE A SCHOOL POLICE OFFICER MAKING MOVES ON A
14-YEAR-OLD GIRL.
BY THE WAY, DURING THE FALL OF 2015, DELGADILLO A FAIRLY RAISED
SUSPICION TEACHERS I'M LOOKING TO GROW THROUGH A CLASSROOM
WINDOW, AND BLOWING KISSES AT HER.
THIS IS SO HEART-WRENCHING, AND WHAT YOU POINTED OUT BRETT,
THAT I THINK IS REALLY IMPORTANT IN THE STORY, THE C
14-YEAR-OLD GIRL ñ 16 NOW ñ SHE'S STILL REALLY YOUNG.
SHE'S BEEN THROUGH TWO YEARS OF THIS PROCESS, THAT IS NOW
JUST GETTING PROSECUTED.
YEAH, AND I THINK TO SAY THAT HE PRAYED ON A BOULDER DOUBLE,
IMPRESSIONABLE YOUTH IS ñ
I'M TRYING TO THINK OF STRONGER WORDS.
YOU DON'T ñ I DON'T KNOW IF SHE FULLY ñ IF YOU CAN FULLY
UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON WHEN YOU'RE IN THAT SITUATION, WHEN
YOU ARE 14, WHEN YOU ARE 16.
MY HEART JUST BREAKS ABOUT THIS WHOLE THING, IT'S SO GROSS
AND IT DOESN'T FEEL LIKE JUSTICE IS BEING SERVED.
RIGHT, I JUST WANT SOME CONSISTENCY IN OUR JUSTICE
SYSTEM, AND UNFORTUNATELY, I MEAN, WE COVER STORIES OF
INJUSTICE, AND A LACK OF CONSISTENCY OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
I MEAN, THINK ABOUT IT, THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY RIGHT
NOW WHO HAVE BEEN PLACED ON A SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY BECAUSE
THEY URINATED IN PUBLIC, AND HERE WE HAVE A COP WHO TOOK
ADVANTAGE, AND VIOLATED A 14-YEAR-OLD
STUDENT, AND HE'S NOT GOING TO HAVE A CONVICTION ON HIS
RECORD AS LONG AS HE COMPLETES THE PATIENT.
HE'S NOT GOING TO HAVE A CONVICTION, AND HE'S NOT GOING
TO BE LISTED AS A SEX OFFENDER, IT'S JUST VERY INTERESTING.
TAKE FIVE YEARS, IF YOU DON'T DO IT FOR FIVE YEARS, GO BACK
AT IT.