This story is a perfect example of why so many are fed up with the justice system in America.The smirking scumbag in the mugshot is serial pedophile Henry Keith Cavaliere. Why is he so smug? Probably because he knows he's about to get off scot-free. You see, since 1995, Cavaliere has been arrested not one, not two, not three, not four, but five times for child sex offenses, and he's yet to spend a single day in prison for his actions. In fact, he has never even been ordered to register into Florida's sex offender database! How is this possible? Let's review:
- Feb. 4, 1995: Arrested on two counts of capital sexual battery on child victims. One case is dropped, one is reduced to a misdemeanor. Serves 54 days in jail and one year probation.
- Oct. 13, 1997: Arrested on charges of sexual battery and lewd assault. Pleads no contest to misdemeanor battery. Serves one year probation.
- April 29, 2009: Arrested on two felony charges of sexual performance by a minor. But formal charges are not filed and the case is dropped.
- Sept. 14, 2009: Arrested on 12 felony charges of possession of child pornography. Charges reduced to misdemeanors (the detective working the case suffered a mental breakdown caused by looking at so many disturbing images of children and failed to appear in court), gets six years' probation.
- April 26, 2012: Arrested on charges of a lewd or lascivious act on a young girl. The charge is upgraded to capital sexual battery, and the case is pending. He immediately posted the ridiculously low $50,000 bail and waltzed right out of jail.
This guy is lucky. Like, win the Lottery twice in a row lucky. Even a relative and former victim has said "he could fall into a pile of shit and come out smelling like roses." Combine his never ending good fortune with the stunning incompetence of the justice system, and you have the Teflon Pedophile.
Let's hope that officials do their damn job this time and send this degenerate away for good. Given his history, there is NO excuse for him to receive anything less than life in prison. If he isn't the poster boy for a career child predator and all around danger to society, I don't know who is.
If he gets off yet again, I really wouldn't be surprised if a parent of one of the victims decided to remove luck from the equation and take matters into their own hands. And in that case, I hope the court would show the same leniency they've given this monster for the past 17 years.
















