Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Texas dad "remorseful" after catching man molesting his daughter and beating him to death
Hot Air ^ | 6/12/12 | Allahpundit - Hot Air

Posted on 06/13/2012 4:44:32 AM PDT by Haiku Guy

The case is headed to a grand jury but this guy’s more likely to land on Barbara Walters’s couch than in prison. I’d be surprised if there’s a GJ in America that would indict him; if there is, lord knows it’s not in Texas. Here’s the relevant statute in the state’s penal code. Not a close call:

(snip)

...Morally, this will be treated as justifiable homicide whether or not it’s technically self-defense by proxy — which, to be clear, I think it is here — and any jury would strain mightily to find that it qualified under the definition for the latter. Exit quotation: “He got what he well deserved.”

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: childmolestation; texas
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 next last
To: ShadowAce

I guess I should have read the story. :0)


21 posted on 06/13/2012 5:08:21 AM PDT by goseminoles
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: PapaNew

Not in Texas...(Git a rope) That guy was a scumbag!


22 posted on 06/13/2012 5:08:21 AM PDT by TexConfederate1861 (Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: exit82

The dad is a hero no doubt. But he took a man’s life justified righteous
Anger. He wouldn’t be human if he didn’t feel guilt. You don’t just kill somebody wipe your hands off and walk way. This was a very traumatic event for the perp the child who had to watch and the father who now realizes his little girl who was violated but she saw a side of her father probably was frightening for her to see


23 posted on 06/13/2012 5:09:52 AM PDT by waxer1 ("The Bible is the rock on which our republic rests." -Andrew Jackson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Haiku Guy

“Even if it had not been his own child, a good beating causing death to that pervert was correct.”

And I see no difference whether the pervert was shot dead, stabbed to death, or was beaten to death. The man saved the child. He did what he had to do. One doesn’t stand around in an emergency thinking what to do.


24 posted on 06/13/2012 5:15:41 AM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Haiku Guy

Remorseful?
What has he got to be remorseful about?
He saw a predatory animal in the act of attacking his 4 year old daughter, and he killed it.
This animal posed a clear and present danger and needed killing.


25 posted on 06/13/2012 5:15:53 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (End the racist, anti-capitalist Obama War On Freedom.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Haiku Guy

I hope he recovers from his remorse soon. He did the right thing! He protected his own child and God knows how many others.


26 posted on 06/13/2012 5:16:01 AM PDT by MissEdie (America went to the polls on 11-4-08 and all we got was a socialist thug and a dottering old fool.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Haiku Guy

I think the guy simply wished he didn;t have to kill anyone and is sorry it came to that. I certainly do not think he is sorry he saved his daughter by whatever means necessary. No telling what this animal would have done after molesting her...he easily could have killed her.

I know I would do the same if I came across it with any of my three daughters (all grown now) or any of my eight grandchildren. The person would die, but whatever means I had available.

Reminds me of a case in Indianapolis years ago when we lived in Cincinnati. A man brutally raped then beat a young girl and left her for dead. But she survived and identified her assailant. He was found guilty but a liberal/lenient judge gave him a slap on the wrist, like 5-10 years. As they walked the perp through the airport to fly him to the State Pen, a man stepped out from next to a drinking fountain and shot the rapist dead. Turned out it was the girl’s father. He was indicted and it went to trial for murder one. It was clearly premeditated. He was found innocent by the jury. Temporary insanity. No pen, no state mental hospital. He went home to his family and the rapist got the justice he deserved. Jury nullification if I had ever seen it.

AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY
http://www.jeffhead.com/crossroads.htm

THE MAN WHO DESPISES AMEIRCA
http://www.jeffhead.com/obama-time.htm


27 posted on 06/13/2012 5:17:33 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free, never has been, never will be (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Haiku Guy

give this guy a medal

If i cousght someone molesting my daughter I would STILL be beating his dead corpse


28 posted on 06/13/2012 5:18:21 AM PDT by Mr. K (I AM WRITING-IN PALIN/GINGRICH)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Haiku Guy

“...Sorry.”

29 posted on 06/13/2012 5:18:46 AM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PapaNew
Manslaughter at worse.

It's called the "He needed killin" defense in Texas.

30 posted on 06/13/2012 5:20:39 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (It's time to take out the trash in DC.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Haiku Guy

I wouldn’t be remorseful in a situation like this.

The man chose to harm his daughter, that’s it.


31 posted on 06/13/2012 5:20:52 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: dead

I cannot speak for anybody else, but I know I wouldn’t vote to convict on a case like this.


32 posted on 06/13/2012 5:23:12 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: BuffaloJack
What has he got to be remorseful about?

Exactly. From what I can tell that word is coming from the press. They just can't see it any other way. The sheriff saying the man said he "didn't intend" to kill the molester is very different from remorse.

I watched the video clip at the link. They haven't released the name of the molester because they're still trying to track down his relatives......in Mexico.
33 posted on 06/13/2012 5:25:28 AM PDT by Shannon
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: Haiku Guy

He needed killin’

Judge Roy Bean


34 posted on 06/13/2012 5:27:45 AM PDT by bigbob
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Haiku Guy

Pin a medal on him and send him home.


35 posted on 06/13/2012 5:28:32 AM PDT by Snake65
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Haiku Guy

Can you imagine the howling rage of the Left if the father had used a (gasp) GUN?!?


36 posted on 06/13/2012 5:37:11 AM PDT by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Haiku Guy

Barn yard justice in Texas! Send us Sandusky!!!


37 posted on 06/13/2012 5:37:26 AM PDT by avacado
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: goseminoles

He beat him repeatedly on the head. No shooting involved. Makes it even more justifiable to me. Nobody can say he shot in cold blood.


38 posted on 06/13/2012 5:37:56 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: exit82

Is he remorseful that he killed the guy or is he remorseful because he may have doubts about what the guy was doing? If the guy was really molesting his daughter, yes, I have no problem with it, but it sounds like the guy might be having some doubts about what was happening.


39 posted on 06/13/2012 5:39:05 AM PDT by Perdogg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: TMA62
"One less democrat.....one less perv for the left to coddle and protect."

Even though he was illegal, and is now room temperature, I bet he'll STILL vote dim in November...

40 posted on 06/13/2012 5:42:09 AM PDT by libs_kma (When I see anyone with an Obama 2012 bumper sticker, I recognize them as a threat to the gene pool)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson