Cases like this are why I still have some support for the death penalty. When found guilty, they should be executed within 30 days. These animals have no right to exist.
“He would tie one child to the bed, one child to a chair and one to one of the support poles,” the D.A. said. "It's hard to fathom."
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The Bibb County Sheriff gave a press conference. In it, he said that God's forgiveness is boundless. But that in this case, the concept was pushed to the limit.
My position would be to kill the perps, whether actively with the death penalty, or passively by putting them in an Alabama state prison's general population and let the inmates handle it -- kind of like Illinois did with Jeffrey Dahmer. God can then decide whether to forgive or not.
The victims were originally profiled as being between 3 and 10 years old. True children, not someone just under 18 -- still not of legal age, but an entirely different thing from a toddler or 4th grader.
Since then, the top age of an expanding number of victims has been raised to 15. Guessing that one was getting too old to be marketable.
One of the few things that makes me lose all objectivity is a powerful person taking perverse pleasure in dominating someone who can't fight back. It happens in all sorts of circumstances -- power plays in the workplace, quid pro quo sexual harassment in the workplace, abuse of a physically or emotionally weaker spouse, bullying an unpopular classmate (almost always done as a group against a single victim), or physical abuse of a child.
But physical and sexual abuse of a kindergartener is so far beyond the pale, the English language is inadequate. In this case, one of the perps apparently used an electric dog collar to torture children under (sometimes well under) the age of 10 into performing sexual acts. The Bibb County sheriff said that the only mercy he saw was unintentional -- that in many instances, the children were drugged and have little to no memory.
But to the extent that they do have memory, this is something they will never recover from.
And the perps did it not out of mental illness or psychotic compulsion. They did it for profit. Dante's Hell is too good for these misbegotten excuses for humans.
