When you come upon a monster, as in an adult who admits to sexually abusing and tormenting and permanently ruining a child’s life for their own depraved pleasure, you find a dark cage, toss it in, and throw away the key.

Think about how gruesomely evil the crime is, and the punishment fits. If we’re all honest, it’s so hideous and horrible that most normal people don’t even want the thought of it passing through their brains (i.e. the insidious rape debacle that was/is the Roman Catholic Church).

The United States Army though?

Yeah, unfortunately, they don’t seem to agree. Because just recently they defined “justice” for sexually abusing a little kid (by their legal definition it was a person 12 years old or younger) as a meager six month sentence and a reduction in rank to E-4 from an original punishment of 30 months that was knocked down after a plea bargain.

More on the heinous aftermath from Popular Military:

Last month, CSM Virgil Ebrecht, who was in charge of the U.S. Army’s Space Battalion at Fort Carson, plead guilty to ‘abusive sexual contact with a child.’

This sentence comes as a surprise considering the House of Representatives passed a measure to enforce a mandatory minimum sentence of two years imprisonment and dismissal or dishonorable discharge for service members convicted of Article 120 under UCMJ.

And the humdinger:

The specific circumstances surrounding CSM Ebrecht’s charges are not known, but his sentence is still reflective of the military’s current attitude towards child sexual abuse.

Want to squirm with repulsion? Here’s the sexual predator offering “holiday greetings” during a deployment back in 2011: