No one was punished for raping a tent.
Exploiting a bug, a glitch, game mechanics, it's what one can get banned for. Still, he didn't have ban but warning. He could as well stop tricking players with his "NPC" name, he chose to have nickname changed. Was done.
Then, he started to exploit another bug with sneak and guards. Well deserved temporary ban.
And yeah, the bug will be fixed, along with others, it's not like it takes 5 minutes to find a bug in code, fix it and test it properly. Until it is fixed, anyone exploiting it on purpose (which is obvious almost always) will be warned/banned.
Case closed.