Warning: this post, the links, and content are probably not appropriate for younger readers (which is frequently the case with news unfortunately).
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Summed up, a regstered sex offender (who once was in trouble for failing to register) is killed by the father of a girl he tried to rape. He breaks into her bedroom via the window naked save for laytex gloves and a mask, and the girl screams. Daddy does what any father would be tempted to do: he crushes the life out of the offender. No one knows, really, whether this was an intentional killing or an accident, but few will mourn the passing of this severely disturbed individual. My question is, why was he out on the streets?
It makes no sense to me, and this is why I, a former prosecutor, am especially grieved. A man now has killer another, with good cause, in front of his family. The intruder, who clearly needed to be confined with full access to mental healthcare, is dead. Was he sick? Yes. Was he evil? Yes (we all sin and come short of God's glory, though). Could this entire tragedy have been completely averted? Yes. However this man slipped through the cracks of our justice system is a mystery to me, but this incident should spark some serious reform if we care to prevent similar tragedies in the future. This could have gone far, far worse.
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