I'm sorry, but I cannot agree that nine years with likely half served is a heavy sentence for 1st degree murder. I think the guy is lucky he didn't get much worse.
He could have at least done some planning and used a rifle with a scope and hid out, shot him and then gotten rid of the weapon and pleaded innocence. At least then they would have come looking for all the people he molested.
You cropped my sentence short...what I said: “Harshly sentencing an abuse victim who kills their molester discourages victims from tracking down their tormentor and seeking justice, LEGAL or otherwise.”
I don’t advocate vigilantism, period. In such a case as the above I do understand what drove the man to kill his molester, who continued to stalk him as an adult.
Deadly self-defense and carrying concealed I believe in and practice. But it is children, the most vulnerable members of society, who fall victim to molesters. All they have, if they live, is the nightmares.
Time limitations on certain statutes involving sex abuse and molestation of minors should be lifted. That step would allow bringing these terrible perpetrators to justice. Perhaps then we would have less child molesters roving the streets.