Sentencing for sexual assault offenders has recently been a much talked about topic.

9news took a look at cases in Colorado and found that younger offenders were “less likely to serve prison sentences and when they did – the sentence lengths were much shorter for the same class of felony conviction in a sex assault case.”

Hear what MESA’s Director of Trauma Services, Dr. Janine D’Anniballe, has to say.

Younger sex offenders get lighter sentences in Denver area