Beau Biden Robert Richards

Biden s office had originally charged richards with two counts of second degree.

Beau biden robert richards. Biden the vice president s son who is in his second term as delaware attorney general wrote a letter supporting superior court judge jan jurden and her decision to allow robert h. Richards iv to admit to fourth degree rape and register as a sex offender but not serve any time. Biden s office initially indicted richards on two counts of second degree rape charges that carried a minimum 20 years in prison. Biden the vice president s son who is in his second term as delaware attorney general wrote a letter supporting superior court judge jan jurden and her decision to allow robert h.

On february 9 2009 robert richards admitted in court to raping his three year old daughter. Delaware attorney general beau biden later defended the sentencing of richards to probation claiming there was a strong chance of the prosecution losing at trial making a plea bargain necessary. As rape is a state crime the plea deal required the office of the state s attorney general which at the time was headed by beau biden to. According to the newspaper s website attorney general beau biden initially indicted richards on two counts of second degree rape of a child punishable by ten years in prison for each count.

In 2008 biden s office charged richards with two counts of second degree rape charges punishable by a minimum of 20 years in prison but later that year his office entered a plea bargain with richards in which richards pleaded guilty to one count of fourth degree rape and was sentenced by judge jan jurden to eight years probation. It even dragged vice president joe biden s late son beau biden then attorney general of delaware into the furor. Although richards was ordered by jurden to go through in patient treatment at a massachusetts facility he has failed to do so. He paid a 4 400 fine and walked out of the courtroom a free man.

The indictment said the abuse started when his daughter was about.