Jacobs sentenced

Here’s what I got from my friend who attended the sentencing. Two months house arrest; four more months on probation, eighteen more months suspended sentence for Fhil Jacobs. The Crown wanted jail time.
The judge , Gropper, sounds like she believes punishment has only one legitimate purpose, deterrent, and since she didn’t think Jacobs needed deterring, and she doesn’t believe in revenge, this light punishment was called for.
If deterrent were the only purpose of punishment, of course, it wouldn’t matter who you punished, so long as people believed it was the guilty person.
But our notion of justice requires the guilty person truly gets punished, proving that justice has another goal than mere deterrence.
Moreover, the principle is well established that the more severe crime warrants a more severe punishment, pointing to the idea that justice should mete out what the person deserves.What distinguishes punishment in this sense from vengeance, then? Justice is done by those acting for society as a whole, not the victims or their kin, and it is done best in cold blood, without emotional content.
I didn’t ever hear the victim impact statements; but the judge did. She also heard how Jacobs himself was seduced by a fellow, older seminarian in a seminary which I believe was one of those infamous homosexual breeding mills that operated within the Church in the 70s, where gay faculty and seniors cultivated their pets and repelled the heteros right from the priesthood. Those days are gone, hopefully.
Anyway, I leave it to the judge.
Check out the Times Colonist website and CBC Victoria for their reports. I will and then amend this post to fit.