"Now, I suspect that you do not know Ratliff and I further suspect that you do not have the evidential material before you. Nevertheless, in the end you proclaim that a life sentence for him works for you."

Well Outsider, one could make the exact same argument about your own stance regarding this issue too.   You get upset every time a man is arrested or sentenced to prison for abusing a woman or child.   Do you personally know all of these convicted sex criminals?   Can you vouch for them as being really good people?

Both of the charges that he faced were easily traced to him by the police.   He paid for the motel rooms with his credit card, and his phone was used to post the sex ads.   Are you claiming that someone else used his card and his phone without his knowledge?   That would really be quite a stretch.  

Yet, you have a fit here over his sentencing, as if some sort of terrible injustice was performed.