"Though he faced a sentence of up to seven years in prison, the court gave him the minimum sentence of three years in part because Glitter had paid $2,000 US to each girl's family in December and the money was considered a form of "compensation."

What a bad precedent that sets, pay some guilt cash upfront to shut people up then get a lighter sentence.

Initially, when this story came out, the girls were supposedly 15 or 16 but lied and said they were 20. Now we see they were under 12.

This is too disgusting for words.