Posted on 07/13/2004 5:51:09 PM PDT by wagglebee
TAMPA, Fla. – An inmate who was mistakenly put in a jail cell with a man who had raped and choked him as a child will not be prosecuted for beating the molester.
Jason Flores, 23, will still will have to serve more than two years in prison for other crimes, including car theft and burglary. But prosecutors said Monday they had dropped a battery charge.
Flores was arrested for a string of crimes in October and found himself at the Orient Road Jail, face to face with Kevin Kinder. Flores attacked him. Three mental health experts who testified on Flores' behalf at his sentencing said the counseling he received after being raped was inadequate.
An expert from the University of South Florida said that Flores suffered from severe post-traumatic stress disorder and that his accidental encounter with Kinder upset him.
"At age 10, Jason was brutally raped, strangled and left for dead in a field," said Rick Escobar, Flores' attorney. "You can't have greater trauma, in my opinion. He had been frozen in time all these years."
Kinder pleaded guilty in 1992 to performing lewd acts on four boys, including Flores, and served six years behind bars. He had been returned to prison for violating his probation.
I agree, the guy is a hero to those other victims. What are the odds....
Only 6 years? Outrageous!
Justice.
No, that's the proper way to dispose of child molesters.
Yeahh- who would have thought that the victim of rape would be placed in the same cell as his attacker... You don't think the guards knew this and helped along a little jailhouse justice?
nahhh.... it is just a happy coincidence
Way To Go Florida Judge for making a little sence our of this mess. Its good to see that he wasn't prosecuted for his little act of revenge.
He's luck he's still alive. If it had been me, I would have ripped his head off and you can figure out the rest.
Gotta wonder if the prison authorities put these two men in the same cell for a reason.
Helluva difference when a pedophile meets the 10 year old he abused and preyed upon, as a 23 year old man, with nothing much to lose.
I'm glad this guy got off without charges.
I'm just sorry he didn't kill the bastard who abused him as a child.
No way if the guards had really known what the deal was the monster would have been killed.
We cross posted.
But my exact thoughts!
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This is outrageous! No awards ceremony? No plaque from the mayor? No bounty or other payment? Tsk tsk, I hope that he at least he knows the rest of us appreciate him for his actions.
Both these guys Got Theirs.
What a happy coincidence. Justice was almost served. I hope they'll be able to get together again when he finishes his time in prison. Sounds like the two of them still have some "issues" to sort out.
I see their point. One would think he would have received adequate counseling on how to kill the perp.
Geez! Talk about justice!
Maybe that should be a new affirmative defense to a murder charge--if the defendant can prove that the deceased molested him/her when he/she was a child.
My monster's better'n your monster.
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