Posted on 01/03/2010 10:41:08 AM PST by NCjim
Concord, N.C. — The Cabarrus County Sheriff's Office says that a man charged with murder sought revenge on a man suspected of molesting his young relative.
WBTV, a CBS affiliate in Charlotte, reports that Christopher Michael Hartsell, 32, shot and killed William Lee Ballance, 47, in his residence in a small mobile home park early Friday.
Neighbors told WBTV that Hartsell had lived with Ballance, a convicted sex offender, until about a week ago. Around the same time that Hartsell moved out, rumors started that Ballance had molested a young relative of Hartsell.
On Thursday, the Cabarrus County Sheriff's Office issued warrants for Ballance's arrest on sex-related charges, including first-degree rape of a child. Ballance was slain before they could be served.
More details of the case aren't being reported to protect the victim's identity.
Hartsell was being held in the Cabarrus County Jail Saturday without bond.
Ballance was sentenced to 20 months' probation for a 1998 conviction for taking indecent liberties with a minor in Guilford County, according to state Department of Correction records. DOC records show he also got probation in 2007 for possession of a firearm by a felon.
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I was going to answer you. I decided against it. Something about arguing with a fence post popped up in my mind. :0)
When you break up with your boyfriend, spread rumours that he's a kiddie fiddler. When the rumours take hold, kill him. Hope one person on the jury goes OJ.
You didn’t argue because there is no argument. That’s why you insulted instead. You take away someone elses rights and you lessen yours. That’s something that liberals never understand. I hope you do. Either we follow our laws and the Constitution or we chuck it all.
Possible. And it may be that the man was guilty. But I prefer a trial first. I take it that you do too.
You are wrong about my reasons.
So you believe that we can ignore laws and the Constitution?
What are you saying? They don’t reoffend that often? If so, did you read the whole article? The title says that it’s hard to know because the victims often tell no one. Therefore the observed rate is below the actual rate of reoffense. The articla notes that when the abuse happens inside of a family, the incident is less likely to be reported.
From the article:
“Most researchers agree crimes committed after a first brush with law enforcement count as recidivism, detected or not. But Ohio Northern University criminologist Keith Durkin points to anonymous surveys in which sex offenders admit to as many undetected offenses as the number for which they have been caught. He views 50% as a conservative estimate for recidivism.”
In reality it’s probably much higher. How many sex offenders are likely to trust anonymous surveys and report the truth. Some studies have suggested that these predators have dozens of victims before they are caught.
One reason for the numerical confusion may be that supporters of sex-offender registries who say sex offenders are more likely than not to re-offend are considering the rate of repeat sex offenses of sex criminals compared with the rate of sex offenses of prisoners released for other crimes.
Obviously they are mixing apples and oranges so there are no clear numbers. HOWEVER the author felt safe in saying what he did at teh beginning of teh article.
I've seen no stats proving that recidivism amongst child molesters is not exponentially more the rule than the exception....your Christian friend's ministries notwithstanding.
Declaring that child molesters are incorrigible is no more inaccurate than saying it's often cloudy in Dublin.
Then you read the article that I posted?
Btw, my friends experiences in their ministry is anecdotal only. It is only meant to show that the blanket statement that people can’t change is incorrect because they do.
Well, this took two minutes:
“Conversely, Prentky, Lee, Knight, and Cerce (1997) found that over a 25-year period, child molesters had higher rates of reoffense than rapists. In this study, recidivism was operationalized as a failure rate and calculated as the proportion of individuals who were rearrested using survival analysis (which takes into account the amount of time each offender has been at risk in the community). Results show that over longer periods of time, child molesters have a higher failure rate—thus, a higher rate of rearrest—than rapists (52 percent versus 39 percent over 25 years). “
http://www.csom.org/pubs/recidsexof.html
Scroll down to “Understanding Base Rates “
There are no hillbillys in Cabarrus County.
I think hoping for the exception is nice and laudable but I base my behavior on the rule more often than not.
I have known personally maybe half dozen folks who could be called child molesters or something worse than pederasts....I never knew any of them to stop even when on probation and even if their computer was taken.
I’m not saying it can’t happen.
But as far as their crime goes ..who care DJ?
we’re talking about justice here...not potential rehabilitation...someone molests a young child of either sex and does it brutally, they should die for it.
We are a nation of laws. They apply to everyone or no one.
“I am glad people like you aren’t in charge.”
So, should we take from your comment that you think those “in charge” that let these slim-bags run free, are doing it correctly???
Would seem if the killer was living with the perp, he probably had good knowledge of the guilt or innocence.
The only reason there's "two hands" here is because the legislators have overreached, corrupting the term "sex offender" until it is virtually meaningless. It's safe to assume that if someone is talking about violence against a "sex offender," then they're not talking about someone caught peeing on the side of the road or an 18-year-old convicted of having sex with his 17 1/2-year-old girlfriend. Child rapists deserve to die, but unfortunately the US Supreme Court didn't agree with Louisiana when they took this legislative position.
Are all laws Constitutional?
Take away this mans rights and you lessen yours.
Answer the Question. :0)
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