Du Pont heir received no jail time after rape conviction

He was convicted of rape in the fourth degree. The victim was his 3 year old daughter. Here is the definition of rape in the fourth degree in Delaware:

    (a) A person is guilty of rape in the fourth degree
    when the person:

    (1) Intentionally engages in sexual intercourse with
    another person, and the victim has not yet reached
    that victim's sixteenth birthday; or

    (2) Intentionally engages in sexual intercourse with
    another person, and the victim has not yet reached
    that victim's eighteenth birthday, and the person is
    30 years of age or older, except that such
    intercourse shall not be unlawful if the victim and
    person are married at the time of such intercourse;
    or

    (3) Intentionally engages in sexual penetration with
    another person under any of the following
    circumstances:

    a. The sexual penetration occurs without the
    victim's consent; or

    b. The victim has not reached that victim's
    sixteenth birthday; or

    (4) Intentionally engages in sexual intercourse or
    sexual penetration with another person, and the
    victim has reached that victim's sixteenth birthday
    but has not yet reached that victim's eighteenth
    birthday and the defendant stands in a position of
    trust, authority or supervision over the child, or
    is an invitee or designee of a person who stands in
    a position of trust, authority or supervision over
    the child.

    (b) Paragraphs (a)(3) and (a)(4) of this section do
    not apply to a licensed medical doctor or nurse who
    places 1 or more fingers or an object inside a
    vagina or anus for the purpose of diagnosis or
    treatment or to a law-enforcement officer who is
    engaged in the lawful performance of his or her
    duties.

    Rape in the fourth degree is a class C felony.

Yep ... It's far simpler to trump up extra charges and bully "the huddle masses" into a conviction that can't be overturned.