Posted on 06/15/2010 12:41:30 PM PDT by SmithL
Ukiah, Calif. (AP) -- A Northern California man who fatally shot a family friend accused of molesting him for years was sentenced Tuesday to nine years in prison in the vigilante shooting.
Aaron Vargas, 32, was sentenced after pleading no contest to voluntary manslaughter in the death of 63-year-old Darrell McNeill.
Vargas said McNeill began sexually abusing him when he was 11
. . .several other people ... came forward to say McNeill had molested them.
Hundreds of supporters ... asked authorities for leniency for the shooter.
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Judge Ronald Brown said he imposed the harsher sentence because he believed Vargas had gone to McNeill's house with the intent to kill him, and that the use of violence to solve problems would only encourage more violence.
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you settle your scores your way....
.....I’ll settle mine, my way. Don’t cram your beliefs down my throat...
read the Declaration of Independence for example...if the state does not hold up its end of the bargain it is my right to do what I have to do.
We are Americans, we are not sheep...
You think that a molester will actually want to do more, simply and directly because the person who murders him will get a jail sentence?
I realize that we're all trying to keep our sanity despite the moronic deluge that the MSM feeds us daily... but you cannot seriously think that your statement makes any logical sense whatsoever.
Molester threads are always the worst, because reason and logic immediately get tossed by most posters.
I was thinking the same thing... probably gay - this is California.
“This was a revenge killing, not a killing in self defense. “
Could we also look at it as a “protection” killing? As in protecting the molester’s next victims?
Ummm... The Declaration of Independence does not authorize you to attack citizens in the case of governmental failures to punish them to the degree you personally see fit. (It mentions a bit about throwing off governments, however.) It is also not a legally binding document. Your beliefs are not grounded in any historical, legal, religious, or logical basis.
“Either we believe you can kill only in self-defense, or we don’t. The fact that the victim did something wrong to him years ago is irrelevant.”
That is true, except, we don’t get justice for child molesters in this country. So we leave people with the choice of pretty much taking it or doing something about it.
If our criminal justice system was just with the child molesters, I’d agree with you completely. Since it isn’t, my sympathy lies with the shooter.
Was this a jury trial? Did the jury find him guilty? A jury had the authority to find him innocent, had it wished.
, then it’s God’s job, not ours<<
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Like the professor kept saying “There is no God, God doesn’t exist etc etc...if God existed he would send me a sign that he was upset with me. If God existed let him strike me down”
Several minutes later a football player rose, went to the professor and knocked him on his butt. The professor, sputtering, threatening etc and the assaulter just said “God is busy and I am handling this for Him.”
Another judge that should never have been on a bench
Agreed. 6 months and a 'Bad Dog'.
right it was not a legally binding document in 1776 when it was used to break the law.
so that is how you view it...you would have been a laugh riot in the colonial militia.
we are in a nation of laws that are being trampled on by the current regime. and why should I worry about the law?
to protect a child molester.
have fun in the interment camps....
“That is true, except, we don’t get justice for child molesters in this country. So we leave people with the choice of pretty much taking it or doing something about it”
In other words, vigilantism is justified. Bring on the lynchings!
“Could we also look at it as a ‘protection’ killing? As in protecting the molester’s next victims?”
No. This isn’t “Minority Report.” There are no future crimes.
Wonder if the judge is this tough with real perps?
This guy should be kicked loose and given a medal and maybe some cash for saving the state some money.
the ‘bottom dwellers’ (read that as lawyers)have had their time to play long enough....they suck at it
“You think that a molester will actually want to do more, simply and directly because the person who murders him will get a jail sentence?”
No, that is not what I believe I said or meant to say.
Let me try again.
Harshly sentencing an abuse victim who kills their molester discourages victims from tracking down their tormentor and seeking justice, legal or otherwise.
Therefore the Judge’s action inadvertantly encourages OTHER molesters to keep seeking victims.
Nothing does a better job of stopping abuse against women than the business end of a gun in the face of an abuser or rapist.
Unfortunately, child molestors choose to offend against the most vulnerable members of society. Their redress is often years later and after the molester has horribly harmed potentially dozens of victims.
I have ZERO sympathy for known child molestors.
“it only got a bad name in America when it was used as a racist tool”
Well, that’s patently untrue. Yes, some people pretend as if, for whatever reason, only black people were ever lynched. I’d bet my life savings more whites than blacks were lynched in American history. But that’s beside the point. Lynching is bad and has been denounced by reasonable whether or not blacks are involved. Ever read “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”?
Yes, Judge. Keep deluding yourself. You members of the Pervert Protection Party don't seem to realize the storm you are creating. People get longer sentences for improperly filling out govt paperwork than they do for violent felonies in our current age. When the storm breaks it will sweep you robed criminals away too.
“Lynching is bad and has been denounced by reasonable whether or not blacks are involved” = Lynching is bad and has been denounced by reasonable people whether or not blacks are involved.
Damn right he went there with the intent to stop this monster from hurting any child ever again.
That it took him years to find this courage is the tragedy.
Guess this judge has never had a family member raped or abused.
Judges just don’t get it.
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