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Aaron Swartz's Federal Judge Gives Anonymous Hacker 10 Years In Prison For DDoS Attacks On Children's Hospitals (zdnet.com)
Danngggg writes: Many will remember Martin Gottesfeld since he was arrested on a speedboat coming from Cuba. He volunteered at trial that he and his wife had just been denied political asylum by Castro. Gottesfeld has said he did it to defend the life of an innocent child named Justina Pelletier. On Thursday, the same judge that over saw the Aaron Swartz case sentenced the Anonymous hacktivist to 10 years in federal prison for a DDoS of Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard-affiliated hospitals, and Wayside Youth and Family. The sentence included $440,000 in restitution, 3 years supervised release, and other conditions. The week before, Gottesfeld docketed a 690-page affidavit (including exhibits) documenting the judge's conflicts of interest and why he doesn't belong anywhere near the case. That's available on the FreeMartyG website. Local news spoke to his wife after the sentencing hearing as well.
I wish.
130 months for bank robbery, carjacking, and gun charges.
This case was about a child with munchhausen that the parents believed to be real. The child was put in psychiatric care and custody awarded to the state by a judge.
Unless you believe the judge was in on the "hospital making profits", once it goes past a trial, the judge must have had serious proof the parents were both wrong and non-cooperative to award custody to someone else, a judge will demand second opinions from third parties. The hospital can't tell their side of the story to the media so you have to ignore everything the parents say on the topic and look at the outcome.
At least that's a better theory. But consider this, how certain would you have to be to call CPS in such a situation. Wouldn't you at least review the various diagnoses? Wouldn't you contact the patient's doctor? I bet you would. I hope I would. I expect almost anyone would. They didn't...
No sane person thinks the judge was in on it. That different judge reversed the original judge's decision when more facts came to light is seriously damning to the hospital. That's why she is back with her parents. The alleged fact that she required more serious medical treatment after the CPS incident, which is what we will learn in this trial, could be FAR more damning. If it comes out that that is the case, then expect some serious consequences for the hospital and their management.
"Those that start by burning books, will end by burning men."
It's funny that this document, which is mostly hand written, would be considered a "conflicts of interest" document. None of it actually contains any conflicts of interest. All of it includes a rambling story of a manifesto which includes reasons why some person was harmed by a hospital group, as if this were the justification to do damage to the hospital group to avenge the harm that was done to some person...
If the guy is looking for a defense, he's only using a shovel to dig his hole deeper by producing and submitting such a document to a court of law. The judge is rightfully correct in giving the unremorseful defendant such a long prison sentence. This person obviously cannot be rehabilitated, and the only protection from society from such a person with no conscience is a long prison sentence. He suffers from mental illness if he thinks his manifesto describing his reasons for revenge are going to have any positive impact on the judges decision. Anyone reading that document probably thinks the guy is a lunatic who deserves ten years in prison for what he did. He obviously does not regret what he did. To the contrary, he authored a 690 page manifesto describing why it deserves to be done. What a psychopath.
You should do a lot more background reading. The child in question was the victim of a "medical kidnapping" being held in a psych ward and denied necessary medication. It seems the doctors at that hospital disagreed with doctors at another hospital and they were willing to keep her locked up to prevent the parents from transferring her.
This is an uncommon but growing problem.
Eventually, with mounting publicity and legal pressure, the child was released and is now slowly improving. Some of that publicity came from the DDOS making the news.
Don't vilify this judge for prosecuting Aaron Swartz. Swartz broke the law plain and simple and got the penalty he deserved under the law. He should have accepting this fact, served his punishment, and moved on with his life.
Unfortunately, he did not choose to serve his punishment and move on with his life for reasons only he knows.
Kriston
Wouldn't you at least review the various diagnoses? Wouldn't you contact the patient's doctor? I bet you would. I hope I would. I expect almost anyone would. They didn't...
You are lying again. Dr Peters reviewed her diagnostic history in detail; in fact this was part of what led him to suspect parental abuse. He noted that she had had multiple interventions with numerous specialists, and yet none of that had led to any actually unifying diagnosis.
Earlier you suggested that the hospital didn't know that the doctor who diagnosed her with myto hadn't done a muscle biopsy, but this also is a lie; Peters wrote in his initial assessment that "Metabolic workup was unremarkable" and "She has not had a muscle biopsy". He knew these things exactly because he had reviewed her history.
It's also worth noting that part of her history was the fact that doctors at Tufts - a completely seperate hospital - had also made allegations with CPS suggesting that the parents were neglecting Justina. How wide do you imagine that this grand conspiracy is?
That different judge reversed the original judge's decision when more facts came to light is seriously damning to the hospital. That's why she is back with her parents.
You are still lying. It wasn't a different judge, it was the same judge, and the reason she is back with her parents is because he decided that they had changed their behaviour enough to justify letting them have custody again. Feel free to read his words instead of making shit up:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/me...
to quote 5100.08
Gottesfeld was sentenced to ten years, and therefore his classification will be based on other factors. Perhaps they'll find ways to penalize his trip to Cuba.