That was my first thought too.. Calm her down??? Meth does the opposite.
I have never understood why people do things like this, especially to a child. It’s bad enough to rape a grown woman, without drugs or any kind of torture. But a kid?? Sick...
I’ve looked into this kind of thing for years, trying to understand it. Serial killers mostly. Ted Bundy, Jeffery Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Green River Killer and a number of others. Usually they share some specific traits. Abused as children, tortured animals, loners at a young age, often actually very intelligent, Ted Bundy went to law school and had an IQ probably in the 120-125 range, well above average, most are charismatic and can easily get along with almost anyone...Many also are fixated on a specific type of person, like Bundy. He always went after women who resembled an ex girlfriend...longish light brown hair, specific height, thin...
So something inside clicks one day and you have a monster on the loose...I’ve never been able to understand what that is that suddenly snaps. I’ve read many books on them, watched documentaries, I see some parallels, but still don’t understand it...
And when someone does this kind of thing to a 10 year old girl, words are not quite sufficient to express the reaction. Outrage and disgust is close...
Someone already noted on every good point. The tendency toward more lenient treatment by the courts is not helping at all, and more “humane” conditions in prisons, along with early release, is making it worse. Felons know they won’t spend all of that 20 years in prison, will have 24 hour cable TV, heating and AC, free medical and dental, all the books they can read, free education, free legal services, no work requirement, then get out early enough to still have 20 years or more to live...and I think it’s over 60% of them are back behind bars within 2 years. “Rehabilitation” is obviously not working...
Death penalty...yep, I’m all for it. But that means they will often live longer than if they were in the general population. Ted Bundy was convicted of at least a half dozen murders, admitted to a reporter many more, at least 36 total, and lived more than 15 years on death row going through appeal after appeal. Some on death row right now have been there 20 years.
And the dumbass politicians that made it possible wonder why the crime rate is as high as it is...I don’t know for sure, but when I was younger we found out in school some countries, like Lebanon, had very strict laws, probably Sharia or related. If you were convicted of theft, your hand was cut off. Second offense, other hand cut off. If you figured out how to steal again, off with your head. And it didn’t take 15 years of appeals...I wonder what their crime rate was??? I don’t think it came close to what we see here today.
And once again, this is another part of the reason Trump is the candidate they are terrified of. He wants to bring back law and order. Exactly what the politicians in this country have worked against for a long time.
“Serial killers...usually they share some specific traits...”
I read about a study of psychopaths which noted that almost all in the study had been separated from their mothers before the age of three, for a significant period of time. Ted Bundy’s biographical data was included in the study.
Birth to age three is the time when babies bond with their mothers thru breast or bottle feeding.
They are held, kissed, smiled at. Thus they bond with another person and experience the exchange of basic emotions-—gratitude, need, tenderness, protectiveness, empathy.
The psychopaths in the study had had this bonding process disrupted and had failed to develop these normal human emotions.
As children and developing adults, they’d had to study other people in order to **mimic**normal emotions.