IN response to your front page story headlined "Sick", what is justice coming to when a man who attempted rape on a nine month old baby while recording himself and distributed 25,000 images, had his sentence reduced because he pleaded guilty?

He had no other option from the evidence which the judges refused to look at.

It is a total outrage. When are the judges going to realise that they can never be cured and never feel remorse, they are animals and should be in prison until they die. I am sick to death of judges protecting these monsters while their victims are tossed aside. I feel so much for the baby's parents, and what a kick in the teeth the judges have given them.

I should like to see what these so-called judges would do if the baby had been a member of their family.

Marie Robinson,

Gale Lane, York.

Updated: 11:13 Wednesday, May 11, 2005