Montana incest sentence ‘reprehensible’ but no way to appeal
HELENA, Mont. — Montana’s attorney general’s office has been unable to find legal grounds to challenge a judge’s decision to send a man to jail for 60 days for raping his 12-year-old daughter, state Department of Justice spokesman Eric Sell said Monday.
The amount of time behind bars, considered lenient by many, is “reprehensible” but that alone was not enough to appeal the Oct. 4 sentence issued by District Judge John McKeon, Sell said.