Two Hivers have implied that because I publish highly controversial articles on this writing platform that question the sex laws pertaining to minors here in the United States, I must be insensitive to topics regarding child abuse and other heinous crimes against children. That is not so, and I will prove it herein upon providing my position on how the court system handled or rather mishandled Joel Steinberg's violent crimes against children.
Some of you reading this article here of mine may be old enough to remember that back in the late 1980s, Joel Steinberg, formerly a lawyer, was arrested for beating a 6-year-old girl to death whom he and his domestic partner (Hedda Nussbaum) had illegally adopted. The little girl's birth name was Elizabeth Launders. However, back then the press and the media referred to her as Lisa Steinberg.
If you're not old enough to remember that tragic event, then you may have gotten wind of it upon reading something about it online or watching a documentary on television. In either event, you probably feel that justice was not served in that Mr. Steinberg received a slap on the wrist for brutalizing little Elizabeth and ultimately taking her life.
Joel Steinberg only served 16 years behind bars for his crimes against this little girl, when he really should have been sentenced to death. Below is a video that provides you with all the details behind what led up to this heinous crime.
The Court System Severely Failed 6-Year-Old Elizabeth Launders
Mr. Steinberg was only convicted of Manslaughter when he should have been convicted of Murder In The First Degree. His criminal defense attorney must be a real misopedist to have accepted him as a client.
What greatly angers me is that Mr. Steinberg only served 16 years in prison. So why are Erik Menendez and Lyle Menendez still locked up after all these years with very little hope of being released? They were victims of severe child abuse and child sexual exploitation. They killed their father inasmuch as they were afraid of him killing them, and yet the criminal justice system and the court system somehow managed to treat them like the bad guys.
The judge who presided over the murder trial of the Menendez brothers was an absolute disgrace, because he disallowed for the criminal defense attorney (Leslie Abramson) to introduce evidence that showed that they were victims of severe child abuse and child sexual exploitation. Their father had even forced them into child pornography.
The former Los Angeles district attorney George Gascón was attempting to pull some strings to get both Erik and Lyle Menendez out of prison, because he didn't think that they got a fair trial. Unfortunately, the jerk that succeeded him as a result of a local election (Nathan Hochman) threw the Menendez brothers under the bus.
On the other hand, the court system coddled Mr. Steinberg left and right. A former co-worker of mine told me that the prison system even protected Mr. Steinberg from the other inmates who would have wanted to administer their own form of criminal justice against him for what he did to little Elizabeth, who will be 6 years old forever because of him.
It's outrageous how our nation's criminal justice system and court system give the bully all the rights and treat victims like perpetrators. If I had any way of making Joel Steinberg face justice, he would either be sitting on death row at this very moment or he would have been executed years ago. He is the face of evil. The fact that he is a free man is an abomination.
Mr. Steinberg is now 84 years old. It infuriates me that he will probably live past 100 years old, because monsters like him never seem to die unless someone puts a bullet in their skull. José Menendez, the Menendez brothers' father, got exactly what he deserved, because if they had turned him in to the authorities for his crimes when he was still alive, you know that the court system would have likely coddled him also as they did with Mr. Steinberg.
All right. I get it. You may be one of those people who oppose the death penalty. I'm not completely mindless of the fact that prosecutorial misconduct does exist and can happen. However, there can be no dispute that Mr. Steinberg did beat little Elizabeth to death.
What? You argue that New York didn't have capital punishment back in the 1980s and still doesn't have it? No problem. The way that lawmakers could work around that is to get a Federal law passed that would make special-circumstances child murder punishable by death. That way if a monster like Mr. Steinberg brutally murders a small child, the authorities can work around the state laws against capital punishment by charging that person with Federal capital child murder. Problem solved.
Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Park Elliott Dietz has proclaimed himself on camera to be a champion of women and children. However, this man is a shyster, because he testified against the Menendez brothers as an expert witness for the prosecution despite that he had to have known for a fact that their father abused them physically and sexually.
On the other hand, when the prosecution needed an expert witness to testify against Joel Steinberg, Dr. Dietz was nowhere to be found. He's clearly a charlatan that only serves his own interests at the detriment and negligence of some of our society's most vulnerable members. He should have been stripped of his medical license years ago. He has contributed to the deterioration of both our nation's criminal justice system and court system.
I realize that the criminal trial for the Menendez brothers and the criminal trial for Joel Steinberg each took place in two different state jurisdictions. Nevertheless, the way that the courts failed the true victims are synonymous with each other. While Mr. Steinberg walks the streets a free man, the prison system has no right to hold the Menendez brothers captive. It's a blatant hypocrisy and injustice.
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