Only Election of Judges Will Save Us from the Likes of Judge McCann Who Allowed a Serial Rapist of Children to “Walk”
Radical Feminists like Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey Only Make Things Worse
By MassNews Staff
            When Judge John McCann let a 56-year-old child rapist “walk” without jail-time in Worcester County on March 3, he made it clear why the vast majority of states make judges accountable to the voters at some point.
            What a tragic ruling from Judge McCann! The rape of children is one of the most heinous of crimes. But like Maria Lopez, McCann has a lifetime appointment!! Despite the huge uproar over Judge Lopez she was finally allowed to just retire, with full benefits. Why should McCann worry?
            -- Families of the victims are furious about allowing the rapist to walk. One mother said their children had had “their innocence robbed of them.”
            -- A state trooper who tracked the child rapist to Florida said: “I put a tremendous amount of time into tracking him” and finally found the rapist after eight long months of searching by the Violent Fugitive Apprehension Unit of the State Police. That was back in June of last year and it took this long to get him back in Massachusetts because he kept fighting extradition.
            Only 11 of the fifty states grant life tenure to trial judges like Judge McCann, according to the well respected National Center for State Courts. We are the worst state in the nation as far as empowering the citizens to have any control at all over their judges.
            What Did the Judge Do?
            The rapist, Glen Wheeler, was released from prison in 2004 after spending almost five years there for molesting and taking nude videos of seven boys and girls who were friends of his daughters. Although we do not know who was the sentencing judge who put him away for five years, the odds are slim that it was McCann.
            After being released from prison, Wheeler became a concern for probation officers when they discovered he was living in Roxbury with several families and their children. He had converted to Islam, changed his name to Shareef Qadeer and was living in a mosque with the families.
            In the fall of 2004 while still on probation, he totally disappeared which triggered the hunt for him which led to Florida and his fight against being extradited back here, and, finally, his appearance before Judge McCann this month.
            At that time, the District Attorney sought to have him sent back to prison for up to ten years but Judge McCann merely put him back on probation with an electronic monitoring bracelet which could easily be removed when Wheeler is ready to disappear again.
            For the present, Wheeler is in the Nashua Street jail on charges of failing to register as a sex offender. That hearing, before a different judge, is scheduled for March 28. His bail is only $500, which presumably would be raised if Wheeler seeks to be released before the hearing.
            We are indebted to the star reporter Dave Wedge of the Boston Herald, who broke the story on Monday and Tuesday, March 13 and 14, for much of the information in this article.           
Coming: Kerry Healey and Other Liberals Do Not Want Mass. Citizens to Have Any Say in Picking or Removing Judges; How Can We Become Like the Other States?