BILLINGS, Mont. — A former high school teacher was released from prison Thursday after completing a 30-day sentence for rape handed down by a judge under fire for both the sentence and his remarks about the 14-year-old victim.
Stacey Rambold, 54, returned Thursday to his hometown of Billings, where he was seen reporting to the local probation office after completing his term for the 2007 rape of Cherice Moralez.
Prosecutors are appealing District Judge G. Todd Baugh’s sentence. The judge said in August that Moralez seemed “older than her chronological age.”
Moralez’s mother, Auliea Hanlon, said Rambold’s release shows he is “still skating” justice six years after the assault. “I figured he’d be fired, go to jail, and she would be vindicated, and that would be the end of it,” Hanlon said.
