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[Tedesco!]

http://www.stateronline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/06/15/42af8a4a962a0

Kent State, home to "4 Dead in Ohio", Arsino Hall, Drew Carey, Matlock, and now kiddie rapists!

 

[tedtropy]

There is no punishment on this earth suitable for what he has done, but my how I hope they try. He should have a fun time in prison.

 

[Blackace]

There is no punishment on this earth suitable for what he has done, but my how I hope they try. He should have a fun time in prison.

IAWTP 100% nothing more can really be said

 

[Willco]

How is that even possible? I've got to believe if the infant is still alive, and by all accounts the infant is indeed alive, that the infant will have long-term medical problems associated with this.

 

[Outcast2004]

He'll be dead within a month in the prison.. that shit just don't fly.

Even convicts has a set or morals.

 

[Blackace]

He'll be dead within a month in the prison.. that shit just don't fly.

Even convicts has a set or morals.

Shit most "normal" rapist get the shank in prison...but anything that happens can not be enough fpr this crime...

 

[mosaic]

These kinds of crimes are, sadly, more common than you'd think...

Typically, if the child does survive, they end up requiring numerous reconstructive surgeries and often end up with their reproductive organs so damaged that they can't ever bear children.

So, not only does the person have to endure the knowledge that someone violated them as an infant, but they then have to cope with knowing they'll never be able to have children. No surprise that victims of this crime end up requiring lots of therapy and tend to manifest issues such as depression, eating disorders, and suicidal tendencies...

Bearing all that in mind, the courts really ought to set the penalty for a crime like this as life imprisonment or death -- because the offender has basically ruined someone else's life even before it got started.

 

[Willco]

These kinds of crimes are, sadly, more common than you'd think...

Typically, if the child does survive, they end up requiring numerous reconstructive surgeries and often end up with their reproductive organs so damaged that they can't ever bear children.

While I certainly recognize the medical problems associated with this, is it really a common?

 

[Pellham]

Bearing all that in mind, the courts really ought to set the penalty for a crime like this as life imprisonment or death -- because the offender has basically ruined someone else's life even before it got started.

Life imprisonment I can understand, but you don't give the death penalty for a crime that didn't cause death. As horrible as this crime is, if the victim still lives, there's no reason to put the offender to death.

 

[aoi tsuki]

Life imprisonment I can understand, but you don't give the death penalty for a crime that didn't cause death. As horrible as this crime is, if the victim still lives, there's no reason to put the offender to death.

Living in prison will be worse than a death sentence for him.

 

[tedtropy]

Life imprisonment I can understand, but you don't give the death penalty for a crime that didn't cause death. As horrible as this crime is, if the victim still lives, there's no reason to put the offender to death.

And if the person so emotionally fucked from the rape winds up committing suicide later in life, can we then retroactively punish them by death or will we just let him slide on a technicality?

 

[mosaic]

While I certainly recognize the medical problems associated with this, is it really a common?

Obviously not as common as abuse of older children is, but still prevalent enough that I used to run across articles on the topic regularly on the PsychInfo and Medline databases when I was in college... I've also personally run across survivors of this type of diabolical event on a few abuse support blogs as well.

On a slightly unrelated topic, have you ever checked out your state's sex offender registry online? Here in Michigan, the database doesn't get too specific, but they do rank crimes by degree (1st and 2nd being the worst, and so on). For kicks, I popped in my zip code and found that there are two 2nd degree offenders and one 3rd degree living less than a block away from me -- and more to the point, less than 3 blocks from an elementary school. Zoinks, yo.

 

[Willco]

Oh, I'll have you beat.

At the Target I work at, about nine months ago our store manager was whisked away by the district manager in the middle of the day. Nothing was said to the rest of the employees, but the executives and team leads who run the store were told that he'd be leaving, not returning and no one was to have contact with him. We all thought that was incredibly odd.

Well, after some rumors, I checked the sex offender registry and found out not only was he a convicted sex offender, but being investigated for another offense (and gave our store as his last place of employment).

We hire minors, are located near schools and get a healthy flow of kids day-in and day-out. So I'm left to wondering how in THE HELL someone overlooked that when he was hired.

 

[Xenon]

There is no punishment on this earth suitable for what he has done, but my how I hope they try. He should have a fun time in prison.

how long do you think it would take for vinegar to dissolve a person?

 

[ZombieSupaStar]

where do you find these registries by state?

 

[Matlock]

I hate to bring up the cliche "he seemed like a nice boy," but man...Undergrad Senate, law school, he's a lawyer now.

Crazy.

 

[Cherubae]

where do you find these registries by state?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=sex+offender+online+registry&spell=1

*edit* I found a list of all states might be easier to pick from the list:
http://www.sexcriminals.com/registration-notification/

 

[WARCOCK]

i agree with pellham on this one :/

I dont think its appropriate to condemn somebody to death if he has not murdered.

haha zombie has found a new hobby *lock and load*?

 

[Tedesco!]

As horrible as this crime is, if the victim still lives, there's no reason to put the offender to death.

While I understand where you're coming from, I disagree. I think that the raping of a child, regardless if the child still lives, is a heinous enough crime to warrant the death penalty. If you're sick enough to want to rape a 4-month old, then you should not only be removed from society, but from existance all together.

I consider myself pretty liberal in most circles, but I can not abide the raping of children. Life imprisonment is too good for them. Solitary is too good for them. They need to be put down.

 

[WARCOCK]

I disagree with your understanding of the implications of ending someone's life. So wait i mean raping a baby is just as bad as slicing a person's throat?

 

[CelticFC#1]

I disagree with your understanding of the implications of ending someone's life. So wait i mean raping a baby is just as bad as slicing a person's throat?

I would say so.

 

[WARCOCK]

:,(

 

[Tedesco!]

I disagree with your understanding of the implications of ending someone's life.

What implications? Once they are dead, that's it. I don't believe everybody should be saved, so what purpose does someone serve when they rape a baby? Why should they not be given the harshest penalty the law allows?

 

[WARCOCK]

Aside from the fact a man can redeem himself. I believe you just dont understand the meaning of death. I might be biased since im studying medecine and i want to save people's lives. Just look at some footage of the iraq war, people dying everywhere, children with missing limbs in the hospital. Life is precious, unless somebody has killed i seriously disagree with taking their lives away. Bah thats my 2 cents no matter how flawed my rhethoric is.

 

[android]

Sticking his fucking head on a pike. Hell, I'll do it.

 

[Zaptruder]

As horrible as the crime is... we really don't need the death penalty around just so we can punish arbitarily criminals that we find utterly offensive.

Doing so would be ignoring the many costs associated with the death penalty that goes beyond a single case and relatively few lives.

As others have said already, the rest of the life he'll get in maximum security prison will be an adequate punishment... after all, he's but a babe to the guys in there, and they'll be raping him quite a few times before he's done.

 

[Koshiro]

Death is an easy way out, anyone suggesting that does not want this guy to suffer for what he did. Keep him in prison until the day he dies. A living hell is what awaits him.

 

[Tedesco!]

Could we agree that he should be castrated? I'd support that in lieu of the death penalty

 

[WARCOCK]

haha, i second that

With those fucking Bull castrators

 

[Zaptruder]

Could we agree that he should be castrated? I'd support that in lieu of the death penalty

Fair enough to hate on a person capable of such a despicable act, but the practical effects of altering law drastically on a per person basis is much worse then the rape of a few infants, mind boggling as it may seem.

 

[Tedesco!]

I didn't think we were pontificating within the realms of law. I thought we were just "wishful thinking."

 

[Ninja Scooter]

i hope all the other inmates get together and agree to keep this fucker alive for a few years, make his existance unbearable, and then kill him. A quick death would be too lenaint for this scumbag.

 

[Zaptruder]

I didn't think we were pontificating within the realms of law. I thought we were just "wishful thinking."

Well... anal rape by big smelly men day in day out is a pretty bad fate. And a pretty realistic one.

 

[milanbaros]

I agree with the death penalty being the easy way out. The only real punishment to someone sentanced to death is the waiting for it to happen. It would be much better to let this guy stay in prison for the rest of his life where he will get a taste of his own medicine and hopefully will be forced to commit suicide to escape.

This surely has to be one of the worst crimes possible?