Edward Cashman

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Judge Edward Cashman was a state district court judge in the State of Vermont.

Judge Cashman was heavily debated in January 2006 for handing out a 60-day jail sentence after which he must undergo treatment as a sex offender or else face life imprisonment for an admitted child rapist who, over the course of four years, consistently raped a girl who was seven-years-old at the time the assaults began. Per the judge, his reasons include a desire to remove the idea of "vengeance" or any notion of a retributive theory of justice in favor of treatment alone which, per Cashman, would make children safer. The State of Vermont would not provide sex offender treatment while he was in prison because they considered him as a low risk re-offender.

According to Bill O'Reilly in this book, Culture Warrior, Judge Cashman was enacting restorative justice, a topic he has taught at the National Judicial College.

In September 2006 Cashman retired.

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• Vermont Judge Under Fire (CNN)
• Rapist's Prison Sentence Triggers Outrage (WCAX-TV News)
• Complete Information About Judge Cashman
• National Judicial College