Cop Pedophile Sentenced to Minumum Allowed by Law

Sgt. Brian O'Hare (L) (Telegram)

According to Boston.com, Brian O'Hare, a former Massachusetts State Trooper, solicited sex from a boy on the internet that he believed to be only 14 years of age. As a quick reminder, the law of consent in Massachusetts is 16 years of age.

The officer talked to the teen, who was really a fed pretending to be a young boy, for a couple of months before getting the courage to meet the boy at a mall in Medford, where he was nabbed for soliciting sex from a minor on the internet.

Now O'Hare was sentenced yesterday after pleading guilty. The judge had a choice: he could have sentenced the former state trooper and army vet to a hefty prison sentence so that he could maybe think about the thing that he did. He could put the man away for a good amount of time to keep the children of Massachusetts safe. What did he do instead? He gave the cop the minimum sentence allowed by law.

A pedophile is a pedophile. Whether the pedophile is a cop, a congressman, or a priest, at the end of the day they wanted to take the innocence of a young boy or girl and destroy their emotional state for the majority of their life. This deserves much more than 5 years. I believe that had the person not been a cop, the judge would have handed down a larger sentence, but as we have seen in the past, the badge can get you a lot of things. In this case, a smaller sentence for, what the judge even called, a "vile" crime.