In New Jersey’s defense, the crime did take place in Connecticut but people of all states should be horrified by the lack of holding a criminal responsible in this case.

Back in 2009, Mervin R. Laparre III of Cliffwood, NJ was arrested in Montville, Conn. for meeting a 15-year-old girl for sex that he met over MySpace. Except the 15-year-old girl was actually an undercover police officer.

In a plea deal  *spit* Laparre was recently sentenced to 5 years probation and won’t have to register as a sex offender even though he thought he was meeting a 15-year-old girl for sex.

Did I mention Laparre is married? Not that it matters because supposedly his family has forgiven him. Suckers. Guys like this can never be ‘rehabilitated’. It’s more than high time that the legal system starts showing these scumbags that this is no joke. Unfortunately, it seems that prosecutors are going in the exact opposite direction.