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Um, no. Although this circumstance is horrific, the Austrian kidnapped and raped his own daughter and kept them underground for decades while telling everyone that she's a prostitute and drug addict and a horrible mother who keeps leaving her kids on doorsteps. THAT dude is far more evil.
You did this comparison wrong.
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Of course a better idea would be to cut off their weenies and stick them on a stick and parade them around town but that might not be constitutional.
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The guy is a monster obvs. The woman is mentally ill or just severely misguided. Whatever her motives for kidnapping and enabling her husband to commit rape again and again on a kid, surely she must have been suffering from severe trauma herself.
There must be some way to make her also a victim.
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I hope she is able to overcome this and have a fulfilling happy life with her children.
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Exactly.
I consider stories like this and feel beyond helpless and angry.
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Fritzl's victim was his mentally-retarded daughter.
Both cases are awful and I hope both men receive their due reward for these crimes.
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All around atrocities.
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I'm sorry, but if you rape an underage girl, then you're clearly an incredibly sick and most likely incorrigible person, and having the authorities show up at your house once a month after you're released from prison is a small price to pay. If parole officers had visited this guy's home a few times, they probably would've figured out something was up.
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....And here I thought most already did make home visits, at least for high level sex offenders.
For all the cries that stranger-based sex crimes are sensationalistic...those "high level sex offenders" (Level 3 in NY) make up a small, dangerous population that SHOULD get extra attention, and doesn't.
WTF, WTF, WTF. I hope alot of people feel ashamed of themselves right now.
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*As a kid, my neighbor was convicted for raping a 12 year-old. He claimed he thought she was 16, even though she looked 8, he had been raping her for 3 years, and he was in his early 40s. He was released a couple years ago as a "low-level" threat even though he had a well-known history of raping girls as young as 3, including his own daughter. He was never charged on the other cases because none of the girls would step forward or due to statute of limitations (particularly in the case of his daughter who tried to take him to court to keep him in jail).
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This case is beyond sick. She's just a year older than me and she's been rotting away, trapped in horror all this time. The parole officers fucked up for nearly 20 years!
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I don't think the parole officers were the first to fuck up. We need stronger sentences for rapists. Period. We need our states to pass legislation that will lock these people up for good. I read the comments on this guys blog last night. I say instead of venting our anger here or his blog or the comments sections of online news sites we inundate our legislators with emails, letters, phone calls and DEMAND that they pass laws to impose stricter sentences on rapists.
The fact that rapists receive such light punishment is a throw-back to the good ol' boy days and shit needs to change.