Posted on 05/19/2008 7:44:49 AM PDT by SmithL
SOLEDAD - A 30-year-old convicted child molester is dead after being killed at Salinas Valley State Prison in Soledad.
Lt. Eric Moore of the prison said Donald Jones was assaulted by a group of prisoners Friday morning in the general population maximum-security yard. He was pronounced dead about 90 minutes later. Prison officers recovered a stabbing weapon at the scene.
Jones had been in the facility since 1995, serving a 20-year sentence out of Los Angeles County for sodomy on a child under 14.
Authorities said six men are suspected in Jones' death. They already are serving sentences for convictions that include second-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter and kidnapping.
Could be. I don’t have any sympathy for the guy, but I think viewing the ones who killed him as avenging angels is unrealistic. Violent thugs doing what violent thugs do.
Please, let’s take time for a moment if silence in his memory. OK, that’s far too long. Continue the party.
Alas, they usually use some sort of heinous lifer to perform these acts -— nothing to lose, so to speak.
< Jerry Sienfeld > “Ah that’s a shame.” < /Jerry Sienfeld >
Justice served even though it is late
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“Could be. I don’t have any sympathy for the guy, but I think viewing the ones who killed him as avenging angels is unrealistic. Violent thugs doing what violent thugs do.”
Agreed. But they should be given extra cigarrettes or desert or something for their efforts.
Yep that is what we want to be a society that jails people and yet fails to protect them.
BTW, do the math on the article. The guy is 30. He was convicted no later than 1995 since he had been in that prison that long. You do realize that it is now 2008, right? That makes him what 17 when he committed this crime at most. Perhaps it took a year for him to be tried/plead out? That would make him 16 when he committed this crime. This is the type of crime that might go undetected for years, but if only a year, that would have made him 15.
Now maybe the article has incorrect dates or ages, but based on it you should be ashamed of your view and ashamed of CA for failing to run a reasonable prison. When people are sentenced for a crime, job of the state is to see they do the time but not to allow them to be harmed.
convicted child molester is dead after being killed
I didn't notice it until Tax-chick responded to the gaff. It is a classic of modern journalism.
[i]”A 30-year-old convicted child molester is dead after being killed...”[/i]
Am I the only one who thought that this was funny?
Sounds like a successful cost improvement initiative.
Good riddance to bad trash.
Child molesters have one of the highest cases of recidivism out there. If he were ever put back out on the streets, I have no doubt he would have immediately started preying on children again.
Hope he is enjoying his new digs in Hell.
Corrected...”A 30-year-old convicted child molester is dead after being killed...”
BTW...yes, most, no all, people are dead after being killed.
I wouldn’t have read the article if I hadn’t seen that sentence in the leader on my Browse screen.
I have to say, there is something seriously wrong with a society that uses its convicted felons to mete out justice while our lawyers, judges and politicians - whom are sworn to protect and defend the constitution against all enemies... - stand by and watch. I cringe every time I see someone post something akin to: "Wait 'til he gets to spend cell time with Bubba" as if prison rape and murder is the best our criminal "justice" system can do.
FWIW,
TS
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