“The Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994 should be updated to include child rape.”
I like the concept however, that would have the potential of further damaging the victims.
It is the mentality that has permeated our Society since January of 1973.
Children whether born or unborn have no rights in our society,
They are considered mere possessions.
the Supremes believe numbers matter? I would like the supremes to tell us exactly WHEN and HOW many have to be brutalized BEFORE it becomes a violation of the right to be safe in your person and property?
Eh...considering that it takes nothing more than the word of the supposed victim to get an innocent man convicted of these charges, I’m going to say this is a baaaad idea.
I agree, but if the death penalty is to be used in such cases, I think some mechanism(s) MUST be put in place to assure that the occasional outbreak of "epidemic" false accusations do not lead to the execution of innocent persons.
There have been a couple of notorious cases in this country in which children were coerced/cajoled by overzealous "crusaders" in to 'remembering' things that did not happen. A day care provider named Virginia Martin, (or McMartin maybe? the name is escaping me right now) and her entire family had their lives and reputations ruined by accusations of child molestation and child rape. The accusations later proved false.
Unfortunately, giving the death penalty for child rape gives the rapist an incentive to kill the child. Nothing to lose.
A life sentence would protect other children from the rapist.
We have legal Capital punishment out the wazoo. Take the bigger blob of tissue to your local planned parenthood.
They don’t even need to bury the guy, just dump him in a dumpster out back.
Why don’t you go after the larger number of child destroyers - the mothers, fathers, supporting government...and the voters.
This sounds like Nazi’s screaming discrimination.
Thank you Michael Reagan. If we had more advocates like you for causes like this ... perhaps there would be less abuse. God bless you and your own family. We surely miss your dad...President Ronald Reagan.
Child rape was a capital crime until the homosexuals tried to change people’s moral code.
Very good article by Reagan.
I will add that the most important thing about this crime is that the statute of limitation should be completely lifted. The victim should be able to grow old enough and wise enough to lose his fear and shame and report the crime. Not everyone is that mature in their early 20s. They are likely to not wish peer embarrassment at that age. They are also not likely to wish their parents this guilt, if the parents had trusted the abuser with the are of their child. So the young fault figures he will just stay quiet.
But maybe at 35 or 40 he wants to come forward, maybe at this point he is mature enough to want to prevent others getting hurt, and caring less about his own embarrassment. So he goes to the police. And they tell him it’s too late to prosecute.
We need no statute of limitations for child molestation.
Death is too good for them.
Stealing the innocence of a child should be repaid with solitary confinement for life with physical castration.........
Ruth Bader Ginsberg spent a large part of her professional life trying to get the age of consent lowered to, I believe, twelve years old.
I agree but good luck getting the Vatican on-board with that...
A serious proposal.
A signed pledge, that if called to sit on a jury, parents swear that they will never find anyone charged with the murder, homicide, etc., of a child rapist, guilty.
In the spirit of this:
No Trial For Mom Who Shot Alleged Molester
Grand Jury Refuses To Indict
http://www.wlwt.com/news/1282970/detail.html
Does this apply when an 18 year old girl screws her 17 year old boyfriend on prom night? What about a 19 year old young man marrying a 15 year old girl, as occurs in my own family tree not too many generations back? Or a naive and immature and foolish 21 year old babysitter who “makes a man” out of a horny 13 year old boy in her care? And that’s apart from witch hunts with zero physical evidence like the McMartin Preschool case. There are shades of grey here, unfortunately.
I’d say to make death an option in cases where an adult rapes a pre-pubescent child, to be applied in cases aggravated by torture, physical injury, transmission of a deadly disease such as HIV or hepatitis, a very young victim (under age 7 perhaps), repeat offenses, etc. If you make it mandatory, a lot of victims would be killed to eliminate the witness.
Vendome’s version of a just and proper punishment:
I would chain his hands and legs, then pulled him up four flights of metal fire escape stairs, feet first.
Then I would kick him in the family jewels just enough to cause a stomach ache every 15 minutes for 8 hours.
After that I would push him out a window letting him fall four stories into a pile of razor wire 5 rolls high and 5 rolls wide.
He could lay in the pile of razor wire for two days in the desert sun and then I would release a flock of crows and 1 gallon of scarabs right next to him.
But that’s just me.
Executing pedos and rapists should be considered a really late term abortion. Liberals want to abort handicapped babies, why not monsters?
Right now the ‘American’ Psychiatric Association is attempting to downgrade pedophilia from a mental illness to being in the “normal range”. This is being done because states have used the mental illness diagnosis to continue to incarcerate serial pedophiles after their criminal term has ended.
Therefore, before a capital penalty law against child rape is created, states should first create its legal underpinnings, which would amount to “mentally ill but can still be executed”, or such sentences would be too easy to overturn on appeal.
Another big obstacle is that, depending on the situation, what is called “child rape” could result in a sentence all the way from capital punishment down to probation. (That is, two teenagers have sex. Have they both committed ‘child rape’?) While some of this has been addressed in the laws calling for capital punishment, it really must be flushed out in detail to prevent miscarriage of justice in either direction.
To the Democrats it’s just Intergenerational Homosexual Love. I’m amazed at the argument that rapists shouldn’t be punished because it might further hurt the victim. They usually rape more than one boy. We have to protect our society.
All rapists deserve hanging, not just child rapists.