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'Steven' kidnapper convicted
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| Monday, February 9, 2004
Posted on 02/10/2004 6:13:51 AM PST by cateizgr8
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:03:53 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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OAKLAND, California (AP) -- A man infamous for kidnapping a young boy 30 years ago was convicted Monday of trying to buy a child last year in what a prosecutor described as the would-be "last hurrah" of a long criminal career.
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posted on
02/10/2004 6:13:52 AM PST
by
cateizgr8
To: cateizgr8
Now 72 and in a wheelchair, Parnell...That is a really determined predator.
2
posted on
02/10/2004 6:16:33 AM PST
by
xJones
To: xJones
That is a really determined predator. They ALL are.
3
posted on
02/10/2004 6:20:14 AM PST
by
evad
(Got my fingers crossed)
To: cateizgr8
As the father of 2 born and one unborn (wife is due in june) little children, I firmly believe pedophiles should face the death penalty.
4
posted on
02/10/2004 6:20:58 AM PST
by
ibheath
(Born-again and grateful to God for it.)
To: evad
Yes, they are. And they're all a great argument for the one permanent cure, the death penalty.
5
posted on
02/10/2004 6:21:55 AM PST
by
livius
To: cateizgr8
Parnell was arrested shortly after White's abduction. Stayner, then 14, escaped and took the boy with him to police, saying he didn't want the 5-year-old to go through the same ordeal he had. Stayner died in a motorcycle accident in 1989. Stayner's brother, Cary, was sentenced to death last year after being convicted of killing four women in Yosemite National Park.
There's something weird going on here. It's either a freaky coincidence or criminal insanity is contagious. The Yosemite case is famous in its own right.
6
posted on
02/10/2004 6:21:59 AM PST
by
VadeRetro
To: cateizgr8
In addition to the Stayner kidnapping, Parnell was convicted of kidnapping 5-year-old Timmy White in 1980. He served five years for both abductions. He served five years for kidnapping a boy he held hostage for seven years. The boy was a prisoner longer than the perpetrator. There is no justice in that.
He should have never seen the green grass again after his first conviction.
7
posted on
02/10/2004 6:23:37 AM PST
by
tdadams
To: ibheath
I believe that they should get death by German cannibal. That way they get to live through there most prized instrument getting cut off and cooked up for dinner.
By the way, you have to abduct 3 kids to get life in prison? Oh yeah, that seems right. (sarcasm off)
8
posted on
02/10/2004 6:24:29 AM PST
by
WV Mountain Mama
(Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? How many just sang that line?)
To: VadeRetro
There's something weird going on here. It's either a freaky coincidence or criminal insanity is contagious. The Yosemite case is famous in its own right.The kidnapped boy's brother is the one who did the killing in Yosemite, not the kidnapper.
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posted on
02/10/2004 6:29:20 AM PST
by
ibheath
(Born-again and grateful to God for it.)
To: cateizgr8
In addition to the Stayner kidnapping, Parnell was convicted of kidnapping 5-year-old Timmy White in 1980. He served five years for both abductions. Parnell also has a 1951 conviction for committing a lewd act on a minor. Unbelieveable. This man should have been put down like a rabid dog decades ago. I think child molesters of his ilk are incurable and should get death on the first offense.
-ccm
10
posted on
02/10/2004 6:45:41 AM PST
by
ccmay
To: cateizgr8
the prior cases are too old to be relevant They sound pretty damned relevant to me. I wonder how many children he has molested over the years that we will never know about?
To: cateizgr8
It's amazing how decrepid these guys get when they're getting ready to be sentenced. There was a case last week of a guy who was released from jail because of failing health and was re-arrested several months later for repeat offenses.
12
posted on
02/10/2004 6:51:57 AM PST
by
mbynack
(<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
To: VadeRetro
Yeah, strange coincidence about the Yosemite killings. I wondered at the time if there was some connection between Stephen's experience and Cary's insanity. Weird.
13
posted on
02/10/2004 7:01:07 AM PST
by
EggsAckley
(..................**AMEND** the Fourteenth Amendment......(There, is THAT better?).................)
To: cateizgr8
For something like Kidnapping the first offense should be life in prison.
This is Yet another example of what happens when evil doers are let out again and again. whether its with Jospeh SMith, or this guy, or the three time rapist who killed Dru Sjodin, or David Maust and a string of other. We constantly hear in the news that repeat offenders who should be locked away are out destroying more lives. When is something ever going to get done about it?
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posted on
02/10/2004 7:11:18 AM PST
by
Cubs Fan
(Political correctness is the terrorist's biggest ally)
To: VadeRetro
I've wondered if Cary's head wasn't severely messed up by the experience of growing up in a family which was traumatized by his older brother's disappearance, and then traumatized all over again by the brother's return after 7 years of abuse at the hands of this disgusting Parnell. If I'd been doing the sentencing, I'd have taken this into account and given Cary life in prison instead of the death penalty. Parnell, on the other hand, should have been dispatched to the hereafter back in 1951 -- if that had been done, there's a good chance that Steven and the 4 women Cary killed would still be alive and doing fine, and that Cary would also be a normal productive citizen.
To: ccmay
Or at the very least, amputation and a frontal lobotomy. That combination would almost certainly do the trick.
To: EggsAckley
"Yeah, strange coincidence about the Yosemite killings. I wondered at the time if there was some connection between Stephen's experience and Cary's insanity. Weird."
Very weird. And sad. Sad that Stephen was killed. Sad all around. Golly.
To: ccmay
I would disagree with the death penalty after one remembers the infamous child day care molestation hysteria in the 1980's. Barring eye witness accounts and DNA verification, the past has taught us that going solely on the child''s tstimony isn't always reliable.
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posted on
02/10/2004 8:15:50 AM PST
by
KantianBurke
(Principles, not blind loyalty)
To: tdadams
He served five years for kidnapping a boy he held hostage for seven years. The boy was a prisoner longer than the perpetrator. There is no justice in that. bump!
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posted on
02/10/2004 8:20:58 AM PST
by
KantianBurke
(Principles, not blind loyalty)
To: cateizgr8
Oh give him another chance. He didn't really mean it. He can be rehabilitated.
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