Beau Biden Attorney General in Delaware when Robert H. Richards IV was charged with raping his children..2014

In her lawsuit, Tracy Richards charges that he penetrated his daughter with his fingers while masturbating, and subsequently also assaulted his toddler son as well.

Revealed: Multimillionaire du Pont family heir was spared jail for raping his three-year-old daughter because judge decided he would 'not fare well' behind bars

Robert Richards was charged with fourth-degree rape of his young daughter but was spared jail

Shocking details about the offense and an alleged assault on his infant son have emerged in a lawsuit brought about by his ex-wife Tracy

Richards is an unemployed heir living off his multi-million dollar trust fund

His ex-wife is suing for compensation for her two children and the emotional distress they've endured

In sentencing him in 2009, Judge Jurden said Richards would benefit from participating in a sex offenders rehabilitation program rather than prison

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2593119/Revealed-Multimillionaire-du-Pont-family-heir-spared-jail-raping-three-year-old-daughter-judge-decided-not-fair-bars.html

The suit was settled in about three months. Tracy Richards wouldn’t discuss the case with Forbes.

But the aftermath of the suit carried on. Richards’ story became the focal point of a media frenzy, one so significant that Judge Jurden reportedly received multiple threats and had to get a security detail.

It even dragged Vice President Joe Biden’s late son Beau Biden—then attorney general of Delaware—into the furor.

Biden’s office had originally charged Richards with two counts of second-degree rape, punishable by a minimum prison term of 20 years, according to a local news report from 2014. Now he needed to explain how his office allowed Richards to plead that down to no term at all.

Biden wrote an op-ed in the Delaware’s News Journal arguing that the case against Richards in 2009 “was not a strong case, and a loss at trial was a distinct possibility.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/denizcam/2019/06/14/how-a-du-pont-heir-avoided-jail-time-for-a-heinous-crime/#71a824ab29db

Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children…

https://www.beaubidenfoundation.org/