A former middle school teacher who repeatedly raped a 13-year-old male student in the school supply closet has never served a day in jail. When Mohanlal couldn’t come up with the $610k he needed to make bond, the judge let him use property owned by him and his relatives as collateral. That’s a pretty unusual exception, but if you’re going to bend the rules just be sure it’s for a good cause, like freeing a child molester.
The liens were never actually placed by the bonding agency, and last Thursday the prosecution filed a motion to haul Mohanlal’s ass (and probably the rest of him… court documents don’t specify) back to jail where he belongs.
The boy, now 18, says he “can’t understand what the judge was thinking.” Well, perhaps the judge was simply considering the nuanced shades of gray present in any criminal case. Even Mohanlal isn’t all bad; for instance, he always made sure he sent his victim back to class with a note excusing his absence.