Kelly Lumadue Convicted of Sex with 5-Year-Old
Kelly Lumadue, a 33-year-old woman who was videotaped by her husband having sex with a 5-year-old boy, has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Lumadue, who was 21 when she had sex with the child, said she performed those acts under duress by her husband (now deceased), a professional photographer who recorded the sessions.
The Florida woman was living in Longwood with her husband at the time, and was arrested seven years later, in 2003, when a garbage collector found the tapes and turned them over to authorities.
The child, who’s relationship with Lumadue has not been identified, reportedly has no recollection of the sex acts.
A jury originally convicted Lumadue in 2007 after watching the video tapes, only to have the judge overturn the ruling.
His reason?
The boy, now a teenager, was not a witness at her trial. He does not remember what happened. That is significant, wrote Circuit Judge Clayton Simmons, who presided over her trial, then ordered a new one.
“The fact that the defendant faces a Draconian punishment for a crime where the victim is alive and apparently living a normal life some eleven years after the criminal act, when criminals who have killed people are released from prison almost daily, makes it even more imperative that the defendant receive a fair and impartial trial . . . ” he wrote.
Hmmm, not only did Lumadue admit in court that she performed the sex acts, but the jurors saw the tapes! Are you kidding me with this?
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You missed that the point of what the judge said is that the punishment is vastly disproportionate to the crime and its effects.
“Hmmm, not only did Lumadue admit in court that she performed the sex acts, but the jurors saw the tapes! Are you kidding me with this?”
The judge is talking about the severity of the sentence, *not* the fact that she was convicted.
WTF????
I can’t believe this. I do think it’s disgusting what she did, and deserves jail time for it. But come on, LIFE??? This is especially f#@*!d up because the kid said he didn’t even remember the incident. What the hell is wrong with society?
Hmmm….people still defending a position that the judge would never take if the convicted was male.
Not sure there would be any defence of a man who raped a 5 year old girl and the girl didnt remember. Oh, wait, male sex predators are to be treated much differently, arent they.
After all, even this women has tried to blame the crime on a man. What a surprise.
I was a member of this jury in 2007. After watching those videos trust me when i say she deserves everything that is coming to her.
Okay, seriously? She. Had. Sex. With. A. Child.
How could you be opposed to her getting life imprisonment for that?
Now, if it can be PROVEN that she was truly under some kind of duress then that’s different. But, fair is fair – you sex up a kid, you get bigtime punishment and I think you definitely deserve it!!
“Hmmm, not only did Lumadue admit in court that she performed the sex acts, but the jurors saw the tapes! Are you kidding me with this?”
“I was a member of this jury in 2007. After watching those videos trust me when i say she deserves everything that is coming to her.”
Murders should be allowed to walk out of jail before she does?
What happened to “punishment should fit the crime?” Isn’t the magnitude of a crime relative to the harm it causes?
While we are on the topic of punishment fitting the crime… how is it that she walks, when people who smoke a little grass and get caught may potentially have to sit in jail for years? Double-standard much?
Also who know is there are other children she did this too? I am sure it wasn’t just this one. She deserves to rot in jail. Plus just because the child doesn’t have a concrete memory of it doesn’t mean it doesnt’ affect their lives in other way. Maybe they have phobias or sexual hangups because of what was done but don’t make the connection.
Horrible woman.