Ohio judge moonlights as life coach, psychologist

Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:00

Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Common Pleas Judge Janet Burnside sentenced a corporate lawyer last week to probation and therapy for trying to arrange sex with a girl between the ages of 9 and 12, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Attorney Jay Goldblatt told an undercover officer he wanted a child, specifying "the younger the better." Judge Burnside gave him a sweetheart sentence, saying she hoped Goldblatt would "turn his life around." Burnside made the news earlier this year when she sentenced a man known as the "underwear bandit" to probation for breaking into homes and stealing women's underwear. Burnside "told the victims she thought prison may not keep him from repeating his crimes when he got out," according to WKYC-TV. She is also the same judge who sentenced the Rev. Charles O. Clarke to 5 years probation in 1999 for sexually abusing 5 boys over an 18-year period because he was not a "pedophile" and preferred women.

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