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Spanish Mother Burns Daughter's Rapist Alive After He Taunts Her During Day Release
The Mirror ^ | 1 Aug 2024 | Zasha Whiteway-Wilkinson, Reanna Smith

Posted on 08/29/2024 11:29:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Maria del Carmen Garcia was sentenced to nine-and-a-half years in jail for the killing, which was later reduced to five-and-a-half years on appeal

A mother was overcome with devastation as she received a jail term for setting her daughter's rapist on fire and burning him to death after his release from prison.

Maria del Carmen Garcia couldn't bear the sight of her daughter Veronica's attacker, Antonio Cosme, after he was freed. At the tender age of 13 in 1998, Veronica suffered a brutal rape at knifepoint by Cosme, their neighbour, who was originally given a nine-year sentence.

However, during a day release in June 2005, the unrepentant predator brazenly confronted Maria at a bus stop close to her home near Alicante. Adding insult to injury, he had the cheek to ask Maria "how her daughter was".

After Cosme swaggered into a bar her family often visited, Maria, fuelled by anger and terror, bought petrol from a nearby station.

In a bid to inflict some form of justice, Maria entered the bar with the fuel, drenched Cosme in it and set him ablaze. With burns covering 90 per cent of his body, Cosme didn't survive and succumbed to his injuries days later in a hospital, reports the Mirror US.

Found disoriented around the port that evening, Maria confessed to the act. Claiming her intention was more to frighten or severely hurt him so he would understand a fraction of her daughter's pain, rather than kill.

Originally sentenced to nine-and-a-half years' imprisonment for murder, Maria's conviction was decreased to five-and-a-half years upon appeal. This sentencing sparked a national outcry in support of the anguished mother, with a groundswell of voices rallying to prevent her imprisonment.

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To: nickcarraway

Her quest was noble, I defend her motive.
Her technique was not well considered. She could have found several, less public, ways to exact her revenge. Acting out of rage is seldom a smart tactic, in the end.


21 posted on 08/30/2024 2:37:04 AM PDT by Fireone ("and dumb & silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter." G. Washington 1783)
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To: 4Runner

Uh, why is your screed replied to me? I said nothing about the murder at all. I merely said this whole thing sounds like it could have come from a Tarantino movie screenplay or something like that. Did you read my post before you hit the post button? Kinda’ rude really and a little unusual when there were others who were rooting this on that you could have addressed it to...

What gives?


22 posted on 08/30/2024 2:46:02 AM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: 4Runner
Are we saying the penalty for committing rape should automatically be execution?

Maybe when you experience the joy of being forcefully sodomized, you'll change your opinion.

23 posted on 08/30/2024 3:04:15 AM PDT by Living Free in NH
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To: 4Runner
Rape has been a capital offence here in the US.

"In 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court in Coker v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 584, held that the death penalty for the rape of an adult was “grossly disproportionate”."

Rot-brained SCOTUS that brought you Roe v. Wade. The same Roe v. Wade that held that, contrary to Coker, the vicious knife-dismemberment of completely innocent near-term infants by the millions was, proportionate and just.

They were wrong on both counts, of course:

The rape victim of a stranger is often killed. In fact, most victims assume they are already dead.

Bottom line is, if you reduce the penalty to nothing you diminish or ignore the value of the victim, as well as the lifetime of aftereffect, and you get much, much, more of the crime.

That's what we have now.

The 'penumbra' of this laxity is evident in many, many bad things in our culture.

Bring back the death penalty for rape.

Absolutely for children.

24 posted on 08/30/2024 3:14:15 AM PDT by caddie
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To: 4Runner

no simpleton... there is a HUGE difference in your arguement.


25 posted on 08/30/2024 3:16:46 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: 4Runner
Weird post.

You see how the two situations get reported differently when it is a female being the aggressor as opposed to the aggressor being male.

Because it IS different?

26 posted on 08/30/2024 3:22:52 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: 4Runner

Her daughter will suffer the memories and the pain of the rape her whole life. It may well ruin future joy in sharing intimacy with her husband if she marries.


27 posted on 08/30/2024 3:38:40 AM PDT by carcraft (Pray for our Country)
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To: Nervous Tick

Worth it.


28 posted on 08/30/2024 3:58:57 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: 4Runner
So would you all not have a problem executing a female high school teacher who has sex with a sixteen-year-old boy?

I'm betting said sixteen year old boy would be more than willing. Hence, that would likely not be forcible rape and your contention therefore false equivalence.

29 posted on 08/30/2024 4:08:06 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: 4Runner

“Are we saying the penalty for committing rape should automatically be execution?”

Yes. It should be.

L


30 posted on 08/30/2024 4:22:30 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.p)
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To: 4Runner
Are we saying the penalty for committing rape should automatically be execution?

Had the law been just, the violent rapist would never have been able to return and taunt the mother of the victim. Thirty days for the mother and thirty years for the judge(s) who sentenced the rapist to 9 years and released him.
31 posted on 08/30/2024 4:29:16 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: nickcarraway

HOORAY mom!


32 posted on 08/30/2024 4:31:15 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: 4Runner

Actually. Yes. The rape of a child should get the death penalty. It destroys the child’s life. They will never be ok. It is proportional. Plus, child rapists are not capable of being rehabilitated. They will do it again. They just need to be culled.


33 posted on 08/30/2024 4:31:43 AM PDT by 1malumprohibitum (I’m )
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To: 4Runner

Are you really “trying to understand?” Or are you just being deliberately obtuse to be provocative? It’s quite simple. If a female teacher rapes anyone of any age at knifepoint, then yes put her down like the rabid dog she has shown herself to be.


34 posted on 08/30/2024 4:38:10 AM PDT by 1malumprohibitum (I’m )
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To: 4Runner

Read more.

More and more female teachers who sexually abuse - MINOR - students are being arrested, tried, convicted, imprisoned coast to coast almost daily in the US.

Oh the times, they are, a change-in’.


35 posted on 08/30/2024 4:40:14 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America ‘tween MD and TN)
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To: nickcarraway

Seems like a perfectly fine punishment for the rapist. Should have done that before his prison time.


36 posted on 08/30/2024 4:42:53 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: 4Runner

Yes, I am fine with the death penalty for rape. Works for me. The death penalty is badly underutilized today.


37 posted on 08/30/2024 4:47:28 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: nickcarraway

And let that be a warning to others. Let’s hope this will “catch on”. (Not a pun.)


38 posted on 08/30/2024 4:48:59 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I'm voting for the convicted felon with the pierced ear. )
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To: nickcarraway

This is an old story. The rape occurred in 1998. The perp was killed in 2005, and the mother released in 2018. Why are they reporting this now?


39 posted on 08/30/2024 5:05:10 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (DemoncRATS have always been the Jackass party, now they are also the Hamas party.)
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To: 4Runner

“So where is the proportionality?”

“A life for a life.” The girl never will have one; he shouldn’t either.


40 posted on 08/30/2024 5:11:57 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I'm voting for the convicted felon with the pierced ear. )
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