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Originally posted by SykkBoy2
This is the problem we have in this country...we all want someone to pay for these horrible crimes even if it's not the right guy...we just want vengeance on someone, fuck it if they are guilty or not....
There was a man in Vegas several years ago that was suspected of molesting a couple girls...local neighborhood vigilantes hunted him down and cut off his fingers with garden shears...then awhile later the girls confessed they lied...they had been skipping school and didn't want to get in trouble...this is why EVERYONE deserves a fair trial and vigilantism isn't the answer....
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There was a similar incident in Dallas...it involved one of those state websites that report the sex offenders address.
Anyway some local yahoos decided they were going to go and execute their own form of justice on a local pedophile....beat this guy half to death....but guess what. The joke was on them...the guy they beat up was some mentally retarded individual who moved in after the pedophile moved.
The sex offender database hadn't been updated and of course they didn't know the pedophile's new address.
Now regarding why this is causing so much attention. It has a lot to do with the circumstances surrounding this case.
Sure every day hundreds of children go missing...however in most cases these involve runaways, and non-custodial abductions.
In the rare case of stranger abduction you normally don't have so many witnesses to it, and the abductor doesn't do something so brazen as snatch the child screaming and kicking in front of people, or sneak inside their house in the middle of night and abduct them from their own bedroom.
And then I'm sure race plays a very important part in it all. In Fort Worth we had 2 cases going on about the same time.
One little white girl was abducted, body never found and she was all over the news.
The second little girl was kidnapped just around the corner from our house.
She was hispanic and the family was all sleeping on one bed next to a window due to the AC being out. The perp just pulled her out of the window while she was asleep next to her father...they found her body on the sidewalk at about 10 am a few days later...just lying there.
A neighbor who had been out that morning saw nothing, came out again a few minutes later and there she was.
This did not get any national attention, and hardly any local news attention. To this day I don't know what happened to that case, but they still talk about the little white girl Opal Jennings.
Damn...I even know here name...and I don't know the little Mexican girls name and she lived right around the corner.
Too fucking sad.