What it says is that I view crime differently than you.  As a firm pragmatist, I believe the impact of crime is measured on the physical impact of the crime on others.  This is why murder should be viewed as the ultimate crime as it deprives a person of everything and all.  Next come the crimes where permanent physical harm seriously impacts a person's life as in loss of limb, sight, paralysis, etc.  You mentioned you had defended a women who had  killed her six month old baby thus depriving that child of an entire life yet she was lightly punished compared to the 25 years applied in the above sex related crime.  Somehow you view that as appropriate.  We have allowed a social perspective to develop which places sexual contact (absent disease or pregnancy or physical damage) to supersede even murder in importance.  This is a disease.  A social disease.  The young are taught this disease and allow such things to control life even though they live and could prosper.  You help no one.