From Tuesday’s Gazette comes the story of a man sentenced to three years probation for repeatedly molesting his five year old niece. From the AP today comes another story about a man sentenced to three years in prison for having sex with a horse.

There’s something very, very wrong with this picture. I’m certainly not approving of abusing an animal, but it certainly isn’t as severe a crime as repeatedly assaulting a five-year-old girl. I realize that these two punishments were ruled on by two different judges in two different districts, but all this does is give the impression that Americans are much more concerned about the molestation of a horse than about a young child.

Judge Zakaib should be ashamed of himself.