-PJ
Posted on 06/25/2008 9:07:58 AM PDT by doug from upland
He got caught with a bunch of kiddie porn.
Anyway, Fagan's threats to children made on the floor of the legislature should probably be noted by all those organizations and he should be BANNED FOR LIFE.
I suspect it's just a matter of time and we'll find some folks out there whove been waiting for the opportunity to bust this guy.
He got caught with a bunch of kiddie porn.
Anyway, Fagan's threats to children made on the floor of the legislature should probably be noted by all those organizations and he should be BANNED FOR LIFE.
I suspect it's just a matter of time and we'll find some folks out there whove been waiting for the opportunity to bust this guy.
-PJ
Are you suggesting he's embuggering his sons? Or, that he had the daughters terminated so he wouldn't be distracted. Or....... all kinds of things.
Not sure we can figure out what "figures" unless you spell it out for us.
It depends on what sort of rape, doesn’t it? An accusation of “date rape” is very different from the brutal rape of a child, of which he was found guilty.
Thank you - I’ve brought it up to Ducks Unlimited also. Maybe if enough of us let them know how we think, they’ll get rid of him!
The word of the child won’t go unchallenged unless the defense attorney chooses to allow that. The defense attorney can point out inconsistent and/or incredible statements in the child’s testimony, can bring in witnesses and experts to testify as to who has been counseling and interviewing the child in the period leading up to the videotaped testimony, can bring in witnesses to testify as to the possible biases of the counselors, interviewers, and parents (or whoever else the child has been living with), and should have the opportunity to have follow-up questions posed to the child in further videotaped testimony.
No justice system can ever be perfect, but I don’t accept that as a reason that we can’t have mandatory sentences or death sentences. The risks of allowing vicious criminals to go free, due to the system being excessively biased towards the accused, don’t strike me as better than the risk of severe penalties occasionally being meted out to innocent people. The victims of child rapists (and many other types of victims) are innocent too, and we have an awful lot of innocent people getting murdered, maimed, brutally raped, etc., by criminals who are out on the street only because the system made it impossible to convict them of one or more of their previous crimes. The best we can do is try to minimize harm to innocent people, and only counting harm done by the justice system doesn’t accomplish that goal.
A devastating loss to the Fagan family
By Gerry Tuoti
Tue Feb 05, 2008, 05:06 PM EST
TAUNTON -
Every Sunday morning, the six Fagan brothers have gathered at the family home to share breakfast.
“But this Sunday there were only five, and from now on there will be only five,” an emotional state Rep. James Fagan said.
His fourth son, Kevin Fagan, 25, tragically died in a freak accident early Sunday morning. After a night out with his friends in East Providence, he slipped and fell from the Washington Street bridge, where there has been ongoing construction work.
“He came to a place where the pavement had been pulled up and there were just construction beams, and he slipped,” his father said. “He was just such a wonderful son, and this is just an absolutely devastating loss to our family.”
East Providence police are investigating the accident, and have provided no details. A call from the “Taunton Daily Gazette” was not immediately returned Monday.
what’s the point here?
clearly this man does not care about children, should I think he cares about his own?
Criminial attitude and his villagers need to show up at his door with staves, farm implements and torches.
GONE GONE GONE is ANY help to the innocent
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