Personal opinion: The Huffington Post is a bullshit tabloid with outrage headlines written as clickbait. You want to waste your life as a primate test subject in some corporation's revenue experiment? Just click on every "You Won't Believe What Happens Next?!" link you see.
That judge would change his tune if he or a member of his family had been raped. The forgiveness would be flying right out of the window along with a short and lenient sentence.
