A hammer, a blowtorch, and some pliers

I've said it a million times. It's the guys with the cell phone cameras who are the perverts, not the digital SLR crowd. I hope to God he resists being taken into custody or just goes into a Florida swamp and does the honorable thing all by himself.

http://www.local6.com/​news/14517399/detail.h​tml

*shudders*

That guy oughta be horsewhipped.

They'll catch him.
Problem is, it's not a serious crime and if he doesn't have any priors he probably won't do any time.

thats horrible. The man deserves severe punishment for it.

waterboarding?

Id gladly pay the fine for kicking his a&& right on the spot, whether I knew the kid or not.

This world is ****ed up!

Hang on... Aside from acting indecently, what crime has actually been committed? If looking is now a crime (he went way beyond doing what all boys do which is looking up the stairwell when the girls are walking up the stairs). He did not harm the girl. He merely momentarily embarassed her. He should not have done it and needs a severe telling off. If however this is just the tip of a somewhat larger iceberg then I can see two things. First the guy needs a mental adjustment from being a bit juvenille or second, the guy could have a serious problem that needs him to be removed from society for a while.

That's the thing, Rhys. He's likely to be charged with one of those catch-all low-grade misdemeanors like "disorderly conduct" and fined a few hundred dollars.

But we're all probably thinking the same thing: What kind of sick S.O.B. gets his jollies by taking advantage of a 13-yr-old girl this way, and what else is he capable of? We'd like to see him locked up but that won't happen until he actually hurts somebody.

Locked up? Not what I hope for.

I'd much prefer to see him take a trip to the local vet, just like a "misbehaving" dog.

But hey, that's just me.

Be glad I'm not in charge of things.

Curtis N wrote in post #4263500
That's the thing, Rhys. He's likely to be charged with one of those catch-all low-grade misdemeanors like "disorderly conduct" and fined a few hundred dollars.

But we're all probably thinking the same thing: What kind of sick S.O.B. gets his jollies by taking advantage of a 13-yr-old girl this way, and what else is he capable of? We'd like to see him locked up but that won't happen until he actually hurts somebody.

I believe in innocence until proof of guilt. I see too much of the mentality of "he could be X so let's do him in". It's not a very nice or very moral attitude. The purpose of the justice system is there to dish out revenge when somebody does something bad. What people are trying to do is to pre-empt that revenge which is IMHO a complete abuse of the system. Instead of getting our panties in a wad we should be doing something else. Instead of being so heavy handed what we need to do is to ensure that no child grows up thinking that paedophilia is normal. This brings us into moral education which for the past 50 years has been abandoned and we're now reaping the rewards.

In the old West, it was rough, hard and brutal. People by and large though respected each other and they all went to church and the church taught morality. Now that church is not trendy, morality is seen as being a church thing and rejected. What we need is an emphasis on morality - not just through the US but throught the whole world. The whole world has forgotten morality.

rhys wrote in post #4263591
I believe in innocence until proof of guilt.

So do I. And he'll have his day in court.

But what if he's found guilty? What if he admits to everything alleged, including the "Thanks sweetheart" part, and the image is found in his cell phone memory, and the judge says "guilty".

What should his punishment be?

Sadly, what his punishment should be will bear no resemblance to what hiis punishment will be.

And, if the image is found in his camera phone's memory, he should also be charged with possessiuon of child pornography. After all, "pornography" is largely in the mind, and it's pretty obvious what his mental intent was. If it weren't, he wouldn't have done what he did.

Curtis N wrote in post #4263620
So do I. And he'll have his day in court.

But what if he's found guilty? What if he admits to everything alleged, including the "Thanks sweetheart" part, and the image is found in his cell phone memory, and the judge says "guilty".

What should his punishment be?

Why necessarily should he be punished? Why can't we investigate whether instead of custodial punishment we cannot rehabilitate him? I rather like the idea of letting the army straighten out the low-level crooks. Sure - they get used more as cannon fodder but at the end of that they come out as people with a purpose in life rather than aimless crooks.

hes been caught on security camera with his phone between her legs, whether he said thats sweetheart or not, thats out of order!! The thought that the guy thinks thats ok.
I'm not religious at all, but I still have a value of what it right and what is wrong....
The guy is sick in the head.