There’s only been one winner in the case of 12-year-old Brooke Bennett and her killer and uncle Michael Jacques. It’s definitely not Brooke after being kidnapped, raped, and killed by Jacques, a sex offender who was released early after completing a ‘program.’ It’s not Jacques either, as he’s going to do a life sentence in federal prison. No, the only winner here is Jacques’ anti-death penalty defense attorney David Ruhnke.

Runhke not only held up the trial for years with his anti-death penalty arguments, but he got the federal prosecutors and Jacques to agree to a life sentence plea. Now he’s even topped himself by getting a federal judge to agree to send Jacques to a prison in Tucson, Arizona, that has a prison population of 65% sex offenders. Your tax dollars at work. The point being that in any other prison, Jacques would be a target by other non-child rapist prisoners.

Once again the rights of the criminal have become more important than the rights of the victim, or justice for that matter.