Yes, I read all that too, but something doesn’t smell right here (e.g., prosecutors didn’t try hard enough and were hoping for a hung jury and had in mind the retrial strategy all along and knowing or pushing the idea of not wanting to put the kid through that, etc.). It seems pretty clear there was abuse for three years and the guy didn’t even have to register as a sex offender and only served less than 30 days. What gives? It also sounds like Paxton's OAG team strong armed the highly reduced plea deal on the mother, maybe said one thing - e.g., it's best we offer a plea deal, don't worry, it may not be life imprisonment w/out parole, but we'll push for something that's still strong. Yet you read, they came back after plea negotiation (presumably after mother already agreed it's best not to push for a retrial) and said here's what we're agreeing to whether you like it or not.
Nothing procedurally wrong, but something stinks here and the plea deal is ridiculous so Paxton still deserves all the public disdain.
Hoffman (the pedo) gets to pretty much go back to his life and probably will commit more pedo acts again... sad. And to make it doubly worse for the kid and his family, and SOCIETY, Hoffman has likely now created a next-generation pedo as you see in the story, the mother find out about all this abuse in the first place after she saw her son trying to sexually abuse his own cousin in a pool. I truly believe that it's highly likely that when children are sexually abused pretty young, there's a high probability that they become the next generation of pedos. It's so damn sad.
