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Convicted child molester killed in Salinas state prison
AP via CoCoTimes ^ | 5/19/8

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: childmolester; justicedelayed; soledad
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To: Red Badger

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.


21 posted on 05/19/2008 8:04:47 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("If Global Warming did not exist, the left would have to invent it. In fact, they did." ~Don Feder)
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To: SmithL

Please, let’s take time for a moment if silence in his memory. OK, that’s far too long. Continue the party.


22 posted on 05/19/2008 8:05:24 AM PDT by cyclotic (Support Scouting-Raising boys to be men, and politically incorrect at the same time.)
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To: domenad

Alas, they usually use some sort of heinous lifer to perform these acts -— nothing to lose, so to speak.


23 posted on 05/19/2008 8:07:13 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Mossad!)
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To: SmithL

< Jerry Sienfeld > “Ah that’s a shame.” < /Jerry Sienfeld >


24 posted on 05/19/2008 8:09:26 AM PDT by red-dawg
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To: SmithL

Justice served even though it is late


25 posted on 05/19/2008 8:12:59 AM PDT by Poetgal26 (God bless the US Military and our vets! (RIP Sgt Matthew Maupin))
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To: SmithL
Child molesters have a short life behind bars. Most criminals are fathers, too. Pedophiles are at the bottom of the criminal hierarchy.

"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

26 posted on 05/19/2008 8:13:39 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Tax-chick

“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.


27 posted on 05/19/2008 8:15:07 AM PDT by exile ("Get off the phone, ya big dope"- The Great One)
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To: SmithL

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.


28 posted on 05/19/2008 8:19:10 AM PDT by JLS
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To: jnygrl; Tax-chick
I read right past that!

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.

29 posted on 05/19/2008 9:05:48 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: SmithL

[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?


30 posted on 05/19/2008 9:14:43 AM PDT by RayBob (If guns kill people, can I blame misspelled words on my keyboard?)
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To: SmithL

Sounds like a successful cost improvement initiative.


31 posted on 05/19/2008 9:29:00 AM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Nope. Not gonna do it.)
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To: SmithL

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.


32 posted on 05/19/2008 9:45:22 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Average White Conservative)
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To: RayBob
[i]”A 30-year-old convicted child molester is dead after being killed...”[/i]

Corrected...”A 30-year-old convicted child molester is dead after being killed...”

BTW...yes, most, no all, people are dead after being killed.

33 posted on 05/19/2008 9:53:05 AM PDT by politicalwit (AKA... A Tradition Continues...Now a Hoosier Freeper)
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To: JimSEA

I wouldn’t have read the article if I hadn’t seen that sentence in the leader on my Browse screen.


34 posted on 05/19/2008 10:18:35 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("If Global Warming did not exist, the left would have to invent it. In fact, they did." ~Don Feder)
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To: SmithL
If he had received justice in the first place, this wouldn't have been necessary.

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

35 posted on 05/19/2008 10:36:20 AM PDT by The Shrew (www.ToSetTheRecordStraight.com/www.swiftvets.com/www.wintersoldier.com-The Truth Shall Set YOU Free!)
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