California’s criminal justice system is so weak that it will release child predators on bail after they have been convicted of their crimes, with no mind to the consequences and the threat to the public.The FBI has tracked down Carl Cacconie in Arizona after he spent nearly 10 months on the run. He had been convicted of six counts of “committing lewd acts upon a child under the age of 14” for abusing an 11-year-old girl. Cacconie was facing up to 18 years in prison and yet somehow ended up over 600 miles away from where he was convicted in El Dorado County, California, being captured in Scottsdale.
How did this happen? Because, after Cacconie was convicted, Judge Michael McLaughlin denied the prosecution’s request to take Cacconie into custody before sentencing. Instead, he had Cacconie fitted with a monitoring device and released him on bail. Cacconie’s sentencing was set for more than five weeks after his conviction, meaning that California let a convicted child predator roam free for five weeks for no discernible reason. In a surprise to absolutely no one, one week before the sentencing hearing, Cacconie’s monitoring device was shut off, and he left behind a fake suicide note before fleeing the state.
