I’d want to do the same - mother kills children’s abuser

[HermioneKipper]

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/sarah-sands-kill-sex-abuse-paedophile-b2231508.html

i think any parent would do the same if given the chance

gave not have

I don’t know why so many people on this thread are holding up this woman’s actions as anything positive even she, in the interview I saw, didn't see what she'd done as a positive, if only because she missed the formative years of her sons and she also had the knowledge she'd killed someone which had haunted her even though she felt justified in the moment. She doesn't want others to do what she did at all, she wants to change the law to prevent name changes by convicted paedophiles which is very sensible.

Yeah, I always take a big honking knife with me with zero intention of actually using it….

Good on her

I mean, as you say, you can’t contemplate how she felt. If your children had suffered in this worst way of all then you would maybe find yourself feeling capable of things you had never before. Can you actually imagine it? A man raping and hurting your children in ways they don’t even understand, and enjoying it, then being released to live on your street and saying your children had lied? Making them tell people about it in court, reliving the utter agony and degradation, their lives tainted forever, just for him to get away with it and do it again as he did before?

I just think when you’ve been through that, you suddenly find yourself capable of things you thought you would never even contemplate.

It's interesting that she is campaigning to change the law to make it harder for sex offenders to change their names.

I think this is something we can all agree with. Once someone has shown how despicable they are by committing a sex crime, I don't think they deserve the 'right' to simply change their name and start again. It makes it far too easy for them to reoffend.

What's the point of DBS checks if the bad guys simply cheat?

Meanwhile there is a concerted effort to re-label these monsters as Minor Attracted People or MAPs.

Yes, the identity arseholes are pushing for this to be a recognised sexuality.

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It’s horrifying that this is being pushed forwards.Inclusion under the rainbow 🌈 umbrella of sexuality.
First heard of this by a shocked Gay friend.

Good I'm.glad he's dead. Shame it doesn't happen more often

Yes he deserved it yes I would want to do the same....but I hope I wouldnt, just because the impulse is understandable does not mean we should follow it!
I don't know what the answer is is for these types of offenses but I'm pretty sure it's not summary executions carried out by the citizens.

No I think some of us are imagining her children needing their mother and her being there for them.

Poor woman. I hope she can forgive herself. She probably saved a lot more children from abuse.

Peace of mind for her children who know they will never have to cross paths with him again. I would say thats worth it. Saving many more children from the same abuse. Thats worth it too.

The problem is now that she's done that she's a killer and there's no going back for her, maybe she's easier in her mind now she's killed him?

They won’t succeed.

They’re saying that because he was bailed and awaiting trial when she killed him. He hadn’t been let off to “walk free”. If he’d stood trial, he’d have probably been put back in prison especially being a reoffender.

I'm sorry to hear about the abuse, and your dad. I hope there's someone you can talk to about it if you need to. I eventually told my story to DH and he helped me hugely, in that now it (mostly) no longer impacts my daily life.

They’re saying that because he was bailed and awaiting trial when she killed him. He hadn’t been let off to “walk free”. If he’d stood trial, he’d have probably been put back in prison especially being a reoffender.

Really? Thats deluded to think that knowing all his other offences and he was walking free. He'd have got a slap on the wrist or a short sentence at best.

He had already done it over 20 times!! Why do you think this is the time he’ll be thrown in jail to ‘suffer’ for life as some people seem to be imagining?

All pedos should be hanged and then people would not feel they had to take the law into their own hands. X

I'm still not convinced I would, I can't even watch violence in a film, even just fist fighting. My husband once put kill Bill on years ago (not sure which one) she stabs someone in the first few mins, I made him turn it off and said do not ever put anything like that on again (very early on in our relationship 20 years ago and he never did!!). So I really don't think I would or could.

Exactly this.
Also going to jail and leaving your own children who you were trying to protect makes no sense.
They needed their mum and instead had to face the horror of abuse and then their mums actions.

Would you feel differently if you'd seen her sons living without their mother for 7.5 years?

And to be honest when you can say ‘probably put back in prison’ about a man who has abused children over and over and over then there’s the problem in that one sentence. First the word ‘probably,’ showing that even you know it’s not certain, then the word ‘back.’ What’s the point! It’s obviously not working.

Ex prison staff here. It's still amazing to me how many fantasies people have about prison culture/life. I'm actually fascinated why they're so prevalent. I think it's because people who go to prison (as they're presented in the media) are just humanised enough to be relatable but just dehumanised enough to be the subject of sensationalist urban legends?

Anyway, this scenario isn't likely.

She should not have gone to prison, it benefits nobody. A waste of public money. A suspended sentence would have surficed.
I don’t hold with all this you can’t take the law into your own hands. This government steal from us every single day and they aren’t subject to the laws of the land, they aren’t in prison. So that argument doesn’t hold with me. He got what he deserved.