You’ve Heard of Hanging Judges? This One’s a Spanking Judge.

Or is that, spare the rod, spoil the inmate?

I usually don’t like to state the names of sitting judges in this medium, but this story is too good to pass up.

WKRG-CBS-5 Mobile:

The Mobile Press-Register is reporting suspended Mobile County Circuit Judge Herman Thomas is being investigated for allegedly paddling inmates. The newspaper is reporting Thomas is accused of periodically removing prisoners from Mobile County Metro Jail and spanking them in a room at the courthouse.

According to the Press-Regiser, once inside the room, the judge would ask the men to drop their pants and prepare to be spanked with what was described as a wooden paddle. Judge Thomas told the Press Register that he did not have any comment on the allegations. Sources also say that between six to 12 men have shared their accounts with investigators.

Thomas is preparing for an October 29th judicial ethics trial in Montgomery that could remove him from the bench permanently. Those ethics charges allege that he helped his cousin, former Mobile County School Board Commissioner David Thomas, Jr. Investigators say Judge Thomas removed David Thomas from the crowded Mobile Metro Jail to the Prichard City Jail when Thomas was ordered to serve a week long sentence for leaving the scene of an accident that injured a little girl.

Now, if he would have only spanked his cousin, and not used his influence to move him to a less crowded hoosegow, nobody would be complaining. Of the jailed men he has spanked with a wooden paddle, I would imagine that nearly all of them deserved it, and if only their parents would have been that adept with a wooden paddle, they might not be in jail today.

That said, I hope that Judge Thomas’s motivations for these spankings were purely punitive, and not gratuitously and sexually sadistic.