Yet the public didn't know that with legal certainty before 2019. He was convicted of soliciting an underage prostitute, not child rape. Morally those might be

Yet the public didn't know that with legal certainty before 2019. He was convicted of soliciting an underage prostitute, not child rape. Morally those might be equivalent but legally they're not, as evidenced by his light sentence. It's the 20/20 hindsight that bugs me.