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To not care that a sex offender got stabbed to death up the road from me.

198 replies

PingpingsatonSantasface · 12/12/2008 15:50

Last night a 52 year old sex offender got stabbed to death A post-mortem examination said the cause of death was multiple wounds including mutilation of the groin. He was a known sex offender in the Wandsworth area and had attacked a girl under the age of 16.

Everyone in my office is shocked that this could happen in our area literally down the road from me, but to be honest I am glad they did it and expressed this. One less perve off the streets.

What do you think?

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tiredsville · 12/12/2008 22:01

Snoopdog, changing the subject, I actually saw snoopdog at wembley.

IfYouDidntLaughYoudCry · 13/12/2008 01:16

Ok I'm going to say something pretty personal but my father is a sex offender. I don't have any contact (haven't since I found out apart from one visit in prison when I was 18, because I needed to). I hate him for what he's done. I also know that he had it done to him (that doesn't justify it, but I'm not a psychiatrist so I don't know how these things work with some people). I'm kind of torn, I think that the crime is so despicable and what he has done has, I'm sure, affected others' lives so deeply that it makes me hate him even more. But I don't see why the general public can justify such an act of brutality. I can understand it, though, if it was done by somebody affected or close to someone who was affected. Feel very exposed now

PeachyBidsYouNadoligLlawen · 13/12/2008 13:01

That last post was exceptionally well thougth out, well done ifyou didn't [hugs]

an associated but valid point also- every Paedophile has family that are innocent (even if theyve been abused there are going to be other family members)-sn't mob rule punishing them too? If one of my boys God forbid were a sex offnder I'd be mortified: if they were then tortured and killed I don't think I could live with the images and pain

goldFAQinsenceandmyrrh · 13/12/2008 13:04

good point Peachy - one I believe I tried to make earlier, but illiterate me didn't quite get it across properly.

PeachyBidsYouNadoligLlawen · 13/12/2008 13:18

LOL at illiterate

PingpingsatonSantasface · 15/12/2008 10:53

Sorry not been online all weekend.

I never said I condoned murder or violence, I simply couldn't give a shit that he was killed.

I am sure the people involved with the killing will be brought to justice and so they should be.

Whoever said he served his time there isn't another time in the world you could serve for crimes against children.

Also the person who said the abused become abusers that does not justify what they do, In fact it makes it worse that they think its ok to do it to another child because it happened to them .

They should either be locked up for life or castrated. They for sure should not be put back in the community.

The man in question used to lurk around some flats with another known child sex offender, The flats were right where my God Daughters Nan lived and there was a time when my god daughter her cousin and 2 little girls were outside playing in the play area and the other sex offender tried to call them over to the flats it was only because of my best friends sister that they never went, and I know the father of one of the girls beat the shit out of the other guy. That guy still stares at the children and tries to talk to them.

I know if someone touched my children They would be dead.

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PingpingsatonSantasface · 15/12/2008 10:54

Enough time. That should say.

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jellypop · 15/12/2008 13:18

And you would be in prison which I'm sure wouldn't be good for your kids would it?. Can't you see the hypocrisy in what you are saying?
Sex offending would not stop if you 'castrated' offenders. Its not simply about sexual urges but also about power and control.

Of course its a disgusting crime as is murder.

debzmb62 · 15/12/2008 13:32

i think along the lines of ppssf tbh one less perv on the street is fine with me i would love it if the law allowed the lots of the pervie people in the world be gassed by law !!! my hatred for these.s people goes beyond hatred tbh when they can attack young kids /babys omg i,d turn on the gas !!would you !!!

Trudge · 26/02/2010 19:01

You wrote "there is an arugment that sex offenders can not be rehabilitated." Really?!! Where is that argument? trudge.

cory · 26/02/2010 19:21

The defenders of the mob in this case keep going on as if the mob consisted of the parents of a child abused. There is absolutely no evidence of this at all. In previous cases of mob violence against sex offenders or supposed sex offenders (such as the paediatrician mentioned in one post or the person who was unlucky enough to have the same name as a convicted paedophile), the mob has been made up of unconnected people: basically the kind of people who like the idea of legitimised violence.

And it's only a few days since there was a news item discussed on Mumsnet where a woman had confessed that she had placed false allegations of paedophilia on Facebook to get back at a man she had it in for.

So how safe does that make any of our husbands?

cory · 26/02/2010 19:22

debzmb62 Mon 15-Dec-08 13:32:40
"i think along the lines of ppssf tbh one less perv on the street is fine with me i would love it if the law allowed the lots of the pervie people in the world be gassed by law !!!"

And what would you do if you'd gassed someone and then found out their conviction was actually false, based on malicious allegations or mistaken identity? Bring them back to life?

Lulumaam · 26/02/2010 19:23

this thread is from December 08....

Morloth · 26/02/2010 19:27

It is possible to think "No great loss" whilst simultaneously thinking vigilantism is a bad idea and wanting the murderers arrested.

Morloth · 26/02/2010 19:29

Dammit! Jeez I hate threadmining.

memoo · 26/02/2010 19:31

I remember a pediatrian's house being trashed a few years ago because the local think arsed thugs can't read properly! total fuckwits! Nobody has the right to take the law into their own hands!

OrmRenewed · 26/02/2010 19:34

Oh yes, violent knife wielding self-righteous murderers are so much better than rapists. If it was the girl herself I could maybe condone it, but someone else who just decided to go on a moral crusade with added blood - nope. Hope they get him and lock him up.

OrmRenewed · 26/02/2010 19:36

Gaaaarrggh! Who did that? Yeuccch! I hate stale threads

Lucyellensmumma · 26/02/2010 19:38

ive not read all of this but i just don't know how to feel, yes i know its an old thread but i get so torn over these things, i thought id try and type it out

When i read that the torturer of baby P (God rest his soul) was burnt in prison i was glad, really really glad - and i hope he is taunted to suicide. But i don't think about him as a person, just something that did great harm to a little innocent child.

I have watched programs about prisoners on death row, where they focus on the person and not the crime and i can't help but feel compassion for that person because to harm another human being is abhorrant to me and when it comes to it, whilst i think, leave me alone in a room with a sex offender for long enough and i'll dole out a suitable punishment - does that make me as base and evil as the criminal in the first place?

Have they ever worked out what motivates a person to harm a child?

runnybottom · 26/02/2010 20:48

Zombie thread raised from the dead...who keeps doing that?

larks35 · 26/02/2010 20:58

Oh shit is this an old thread, was about to go on about how barbarian "eye for an eye" justice is, but I'll save that soliloquy for another time....

thesunshinesbrightly · 26/02/2010 21:22

Oh good one less perv for us to worry about

thesunshinesbrightly · 26/02/2010 21:25

Oh bugger, who keeps raising these threads

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