Lovejac dear, I know you've seen my other posts regarding my position on child molesters & those who also kill children.
I do not support humane outcomes to those who commit inhumane things.
He got exactly what he deserved. I strongly believe our pendulum has swung FAR TOO MUCH in the criminals rights and not even close to what victims deserve. Child rapists/killers do not deserve their life - ever ever ever! I hope he's visiting the utter pits of hell which he will never, for all eternity ever escape. Maybe that's a good start for justice to this little boy & his dad.
If that makes me a heartless barbaric person, so be it. I can confidently face my Lord with my head held high. My husband and I give far more to the world than we take from it. To see these same freaks allowed to live disgusts me to the core. Sorry if that makes me come across as hateful, I am not. I'm all for protecting our children and if having this happen to the criminal is what it takes to keep EVEN 1 CHILD safe... I'm in.
I don't support a great part of the middle east judicial decisions or way of life, but I feel they made an intelligent decision in this case.
Of all the many times that I have "thanked" a poster for a post, I have never felt compelled to also respond as I will to this one.
If I could give you a standing ovation, PattyCake, I would. Your sentiments so closely echo those of my own.
When a child's innocence and/or their lives are robbed from them by the ugly scourge of our society, the offender should be given the harshest of punishments--without concern for ANY rights that the offender feels they deserve. They lost those rights when they took it upon themselves to harm an innocent cihld.
Our children are our future. Any child molester/killer who robs the innocence or the life of a child, in effect, is destroying that future.
Children who survive the abuses of a child molester must live with a lifetime of dealing with unbelievable pain--it affects everything that they do and feel. Untold numbers of those children will never recover from the horrors to which they were subjected.
The way that laws are now written, and related punishments doled out to those offenders, it gives those offenders more opportunities to potentially victimize more children who come along their paths. Too often the punishments that these offenders receive are nothing more than a slap on the wrist and then they are out looking for their next victim(s). These offenders feel no remorse--they are simply looking to getting their jollies at the expense of an innocent child.
We have all heard that a child molester cannot be rehabilitated. I firmly believe this. There are too many cases that we see here at WS that prove that to be true--repeat offenders whose crimes escalate in depravity and eventually ending in the final atrocity of putting their victims to death just so they do not leave any witnesses behind.
So if an offender cannot be rehabilitated, what is the point/purpose of keeping them alive? To wait until they commit yet another heinous act against another innocent child? To see just how many victims he/she will rack up over the years? To complain about the hundreds of thousands of dollars that it costs to house these offenders behind prison walls?
If these offenders are put to death, immediately after conviction, then there is no risk of yet another helpless and innocent victim being subjected to the indecencies perpetrated upon them by these monsters. There is no chance that untold numbers of victims will suffer for the rest of their lives because of that offender. There would be minimal cost in housing the offender.
Put these monsters to death upon conviction--they serve NO PURPOSE here on earth. Save our children and their futures.
I LOUDLY applaud you, PattyCake, for voicing your opinion about this.
BRAVO!!