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There may be merit in that argument. Sometimes, however, examples need to be set.

Rappahannock County is one of those rapidly vanishing -places where people still do not lock their houses at night, where some even leave their keys in their cars. Residents do not fear walking the streets of Washington, or Flint Hill, or Sperryville after dark. Unlike most of the world, there is trust here.

Those youthful burglars violated that trust.

By his action in sentencing the young man, Judge Penn served notice that scoundrels who violate that trust will not be let off with a slap on the wrist, a finger wagged in the face and an admonition “never do that again.” If Judge Penn’s stem pronouncement causes other would-be miscreants to reconsider their schemes, some good will have come from a thoroughly contemptible affair.

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