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The following Letters to the Editor ran in the Austin-American Statesman in response to the May 21 article “Former officer pleads guilty to sex charge.”

The plea deal by former Georgetown police Sgt. Jimmy Lewis Fennell Jr. has been accepted by Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley and presented to District Judge Burt Carnes to let him off with a slap on the wrist compared with anyone else going through the Williamson County judicial system, where felony convictions and 20-year sentences for lesser crimes are handed down daily by Bradley and his good ol’ boy judges.

Carnes needs to do the right thing and send this one up like he does everyone else.

FRANK DAVOL
Florence

Law-and-order Williamson County is offering a two-year sentence to a cop who admits to kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman while on duty Рa man who also has been accused of false arrests and beating suspects and has been considered a suspect in the strangling of his fianc̩e?

Oh, and the plea offer includes not having to register as a sex offender.

Once again, justice is turned on its head in Williamson County.

KENT SANTORIELLO
Austin

This is unbelievable. Fennell can get off with a plea bargain and serve only two years.

He violated a public trust. He should pay the same price as any private citizen.

What will this do to any credence police officers have? Women will have more reason to distrust a policeman.

Hopefully, Carnes will see the injustice of this and rule for a more logical sentence.

BOB HAMILTON
Austin

Once again, a peace officer in Central Texas commits a sexual offense but is not required to register as a sex offender. Fennell sexually assaulted a woman in his custody while on duty but is not considered a sex offender?

I’ve seen the amazing disparity in sentencing in this area too many times.

I would think that society would come down harder on those who swear to uphold the law while terrorizing the defenseless.

Whom do we blame when these untracked predators strike again?

ROBIN CAMPBELL
Hutto

CBS 11 Dallas/Fort Worth
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