[Space Wrangler]

I'm so glad the police are there to protect me. Why would I EVER need a gun??

[Dallas59]

I believe someone should lose a position over this...If I lived in that town, I'd DEMAND that somebody step down...real quick. Public safety is in danger with cops like that.

[Triple Word Score]

I was a member of an online support group for parents of disabled children. Someone with a Yahoo or Hotmail email (I forget which, but it was free at the time) joined and immediately started asking us for information on how to put his cerebral-palsy afflicted daughter out of her "misery." Well, that started a serious riot in the one online group I've ever seen that hardly ever had a flamewar. Many of the members of the group have profoundly disabled children, and it was a hotbutton for everyone--that makes sense, since so many of them started out being given the option to let a seriously disabled baby die, and they chose life. "Quality of life" is something people like this work for and value, but will not kill for.

Of course the admin banned the guy after very few posts. The upset he caused lasted quite awhile.

Some of us who believed he was serious, not just a troll, began trying to contact law enforcement. The FBI would have been interested if the threat involved money or child pornography, but simple murder? no. (They were very rude about it!) That's a matter for local law enforcement. Yes, but what locality?! Several of us tried for a couple of weeks to find some way to find out where he lived, but we could interest no national law enforcement in the matter, and nobody would issue a subpoena to the email service.

Had he been taking naked pictures of the 5 year old he would have been hunted down, his home searched, and probably arrested and tried. Or if he'd kidnapped her, the FBI would have been interested, or if he was selling drugs or bootleg cigarettes....

Since he was looking for a way to kill her, nobody cared.

Not long after this happened, a 5 year old with cerebral palsy was burned to death in a fire her father started, and he said he did it to put her out of her misery. I don't remember where that was, but I've always wondered if that was the man who was looking for a way to kill his daughter. The facts seemed to match.

Oh, and don't bother reminding an FBI agent that they get their paycheck from your taxes. They still don't have to answer to us and they know it.

[mtbopfuyn]

OMG. This is unbelievable. Well, actually, this type of response is normal for many areas where the sheriff gets too big for his badge. He and those deputies should have their heads handed to them with notes attached to their personnel files to include a 'do not recommend' for any referrals to future jobs.

[kimmie7]

I'm so glad the police are there to protect me. Why would I EVER need a gun??

Isn't THAT the truth. It's a good thing this slimeball didn't kill the other children -- but he certainly had time to do anything his sick little mind could come up with thanks to the ineptitude of law enforcement.

[T.Smith]

She should have told the police that there was 10lbs of marijuana in the house. They would have broken the door down within the hour.