How Can This Be Happening?!?

That spinning flying object you’re seeing in the sky right now? It’s my head. It popped clean off of my shoulders when I read this:

A Vernon Center sex assault suspect’s ability to post a larger bond for his release from jail is raising new questions about how he is able to qualify for a public defender.

Jeremy Allen Giefer, 37, posted a $350,000 bond for his release from jail Monday. The bond amount, issued by Griffin Bail Bonds, included $250,000 Giefer had previously posted before being arrested and jailed again for allegedly violating his release conditions.

You remember Mr. Giefer, right? The guy who now-former governor Tim Pawlenty had pardoned, thus erasing his statutory rape conviction? The conviction he’d earned because he, as a 19-year-old alleged adult, knocked up a 14-year-old, then married her — and now stands accused of molesting the very child, the young daughter, who was the product of his impregnating the 14-year-old? (Oh, and he’s got at least one other child by another woman — a woman he was sexually assaulting — that we know of.)

Now he’s managed to get out on bail, after the judge raised the bail because the silly twit was caught violating the terms of it.

I am aghast. As I stated over in the comments threads at Bluestem Prairie:

If he’d been a poor black guy living in South Minneapolis, his chance for bail would have been revoked the second he tried contacting his victim-daughter. Who the hell is pulling strings for this guy? And how much more blatant can this get?

This guy’s been coddled ever since he became a legal adult — and I have a feeling he was coddled well before he became a legal adult, because that’s the most likely reason I can find for his apparent belief (well justified by events) that he will be allowed to get away with damned near anything.

Again, I am aghast.