ROANOKE, Va. (AP)
a traveling, self-ordained evangelist who served 13 years in prison for molesting young boys
I see a problem here. So often, when we read of child molesters being sentenced to prison, the chorus can be counted on to warble, "Wait until the boys in Cellblock D get ahold of him," or something to that effect. The implication, of course, is that justice is served by extrajudicial punishment in the form of prison rape.
The molesting Lester above survived 13 years of push me-pull you. Is prison rape in danger to ceasing to be a deterrent? Falling back on, "He'll get his in the afterlife," does not satisfy our need for closure, inasmuch as God gets pretty profligate with mercy, according to some, and anyway, you can't predict when someone is going to get religion and slip out the side door.
imposed before parole was abolished in Virginia.
That's a step forward: keep them incarcerated longer. One wonders where all the prison space is coming from, though, what with the astonishing success of the War on Drugs in locking up nonviolent sellers of suspicious-looking glassware and all.
The only remedy I can think of on one cup of coffee is to relocate post-prison people like Lester to places like Florida, where we have acres of +55 restricted communities, already gated with guards and populated by retirees. I live in one and haven't seen a kid in three years, myself. Getting run over by golf carts is a hazard, though, so keep your eye on the sparrow, and don't do the crime if you ain't got some time.
If we killed every Man of God who molested a kid, who would be left to get out the Gospel?
Put these sick bastards to sleep just like you would a rabid dog. Way too kind, they should have booted him off the plane on the way back from Haiti. Give him a minute on the way down to see his sick, twisted, perverted life flash before his eyes.