Son of Arizona Senate President to walk on 17 charges of kidnapping, assault.

This story has apparently been out there since at least the beginning of this year, and hopefully the blogs will turn it into national news. Not because it's another tale of a staunch right-winger caught up in a kinky sex scandal, but because it's just one more example of the sickening depths to which the Republican party is willing to stoop to protect one of their own. And his twisted psycho of a son. [Emphasis mine]

The son of state Senate President Ken Bennett admitted in court Monday to assaulting middle school boys with a broomstick in their rectal areas, but a judge allowed charges against him to be reduced from 18 to one, and he may avoid jail.

Three of the 18 victims, all boys between the ages of 11 and 15, are from Tucson, and the families are angry that 18-year-old Clifton Bennett and co-defendant Kyle Wheeler, 19, were not charged with sexual assault.

Also, the families said Bennett is being treated favorably by the court system because of his father's position in the Legislature. Bennett's plea would allow the court to classify the aggravated-assault conviction as a misdemeanor, which means he could go on to become a teacher or counselor and would never have to disclose the so-called "brooming" incident.

Bennett and Wheeler pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in court Monday. Bennett pleaded to one count and Wheeler to two.

"I think he got a sweetheart deal," said the father of one of the three Tucson victims, a 12-year-old boy who attends a local Catholic school. "I'd like him to get a year in prison. The victims should have been heard from before the plea was agreed to. If this was 18 girls who were victims, it would have been sexual assault."

There's even more to it than that. Young Bennett was a devout Mormon, and his father was considering a run for governor-- 'till this came along. So the proud, Christian son of a connected Arizona Republican ass-rapes eighteen kids with brooms and flashlights, and he'll apparently walk away with a warning. Because the sick piece of shit waited until afterward to rub one out. Now that's what I call an 'activist judge,' but I'm guessing the fundamentalists won't have any harsh words for the serial rapist in their midst. If only their eye-for-an-eye concept of justice extended to Bennett.... I suspect that when fellow inmates learned he was doing time for raping 18 children, he'd really learn a thing or two sodomy.