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Vigilante neighbors in court for branding molester
Detroit Free Press ^ | August 6, 2002 | L.L. BRASIER

Posted on 08/06/2002 7:42:18 AM PDT by kcpopps

Edited on 05/07/2004 7:12:34 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Three Pontiac men took the law -- and a blistering hot metal spatula -- into their hands when they learned a neighbor had been regularly sodomizing his 7- and 10-year-old nephews.

Two of the men held down the uncle while the third pressed the smoking spatula on his genitals, buttocks, stomach and legs. They paused only long enough to reheat the spatula on the kitchen stove for repeated branding before tossing the uncle out onto the sidewalk, breaking his arm.


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"We call it street law, or street justice," he said. "And it's actually quite common when you have cases of child abuse."

He had it coming if there was no doubt. But gotta be careful with stuff like that. Last week there was a girl reported as abducted by three men. On a thread here, at least one poster commented, something alond the line of "string em up on the spot". Later, police reported the teen was not abducted at all but had simply disobeyed her parents and gone somewhere without permission

1 posted on 08/06/2002 7:42:18 AM PDT by kcpopps
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My grandpa who grew up during the early 1900 use to tell how when someone was exposed as a child / wife abuser or adulterer a group of the menfolk would go out to his farm and have a "chat" with him. The perp usually changed his ways really quick or fled the county.

It's amazing how people could take care of their own problems before the government decided they needed a "department" to handle every issue.
3 posted on 08/06/2002 7:48:58 AM PDT by apillar
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Williams, who admitted throwing Gibson on the sidewalk, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault. Already serving alife sentence for murder in an unrelated case, Williams, 21, faces a year in prison for the assault.
Somebody explain to me how a guy doing a life-sentence was able to participate in this. What am I missing?
4 posted on 08/06/2002 7:49:16 AM PDT by Clara Lou
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To: kcpopps
Anybody who is a parent can understand this -- not condone it, but understand it."

Well, actually, I do condone it. This scumbag perv got off very light compared to what I would have done. Suffice it to say there would only have been one story told to the police about how said scumbag perv attacked me with a knife and I had to dispatch him with my Glock in...um...fear for my life....yeah that's it!

5 posted on 08/06/2002 7:50:23 AM PDT by Space Wrangler
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"That is not a good thing, because often the punishment is much harsher, more brutal, than what is appropriate," Fox said. "That's why we have laws, a system, to handle crime and punishment."

Hmmmm punishment more harsh or brutal than is appropriate...meaning that the state will punish this perp in such a way that all perps will take notice and perhaps through fear of punishment check their behavior and not sodomize their nephews...meanwhile this perp will be punished by the PTB...and be re-habilitated to never ..never ..do this to another child...like the many that have been re-habilitated before him...???? When they threw him out on the sidewalk they should have thrown him under an oncoming Leach garbage wagon..imo... I do realize the problem here is establishing guilt beyond doubt

6 posted on 08/06/2002 7:51:45 AM PDT by joesnuffy
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To: kcpopps
Our criminal justice system should deal with whether or not someone commited a crime, period. Technicalities that allow criminals to walk free should be eliminated. In a case where a warrant for search for one thing discovers evidence of a crime not related to the warrant, and then to allow that evidence to be thrown out is ridiculous. I know of a case where that happened as I'm sure do others.
7 posted on 08/06/2002 7:53:03 AM PDT by elephantlips
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To: kcpopps
The folks who did this sound like they are as sick and twisted as the uncle. I could see roughing him up as an act of frustration and anger but this sounds like a sick and methodical plot to inflict very, very cruel and unusual punishment.

If this guy did molest his nephews, I can understand but not condone some "close-order counseling" but this is beyond the pale.

8 posted on 08/06/2002 7:53:08 AM PDT by hometoroost
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I agree with you- back in the old days they would group together and have a chat with the perp. But back then simply being apporached by a group like this was enough to throw the fear of God into anyone, and so that was often clearly enough to do the trick- and repeat visits were not quite so cordial...
9 posted on 08/06/2002 7:53:38 AM PDT by Mr. K
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To: Clara Lou
My guess is he was convicted & sentenced AFTER this incident but before it came to trial...
10 posted on 08/06/2002 7:55:02 AM PDT by Vic3O3
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"I don't condone what the victim did," Frazee said, after Gibson's attackers were led away. "It was repulsive. But he was punished at the hands of these defendants -- tortured -- and the law does not allow for that."

Well, I guess this perp isn't going to be sodomizing anybody else anytime soon.

11 posted on 08/06/2002 7:55:06 AM PDT by pray4liberty
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To: BillinDenver
Compare and contrast: Vigilante justice in this case, with the vigilante justice administered in the Chicago van accident

Interesting comparison. The Chicago incident resulted from an accident however, and this was certainly not an accident.

12 posted on 08/06/2002 7:57:48 AM PDT by kcpopps
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Good point.

The sanctimonious prosecutor sickens me. Putting the pedophile in protective custody and charging his victims for his prosecution, his defense, his food, shelter, and medical care, and his trips to the law library and endless habeas petitions is not justice, but injustice.

13 posted on 08/06/2002 7:58:09 AM PDT by SteamshipTime
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If this keeps happening maybe politicians will get the message that we are unhappy with the courts treating convicted fellons like victims. I can say for sure, anybody who harms anyone in my family will wish that they were only branded with a spatula. I wouldn't rely on a broken down justice system.
14 posted on 08/06/2002 8:03:08 AM PDT by Cicero5
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To: kcpopps
In June 2001, Gibson, 38, pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct for the attacks on his nephews and was ordered to serve an 8- to 40-year prison term.

When did this guy get "branded"? If he pleaded guilty in June, why was he out, and thus eligible for the "hot dog" treatment?

15 posted on 08/06/2002 8:04:27 AM PDT by TankerKC
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To: sinkspur; one_particular_harbour
Now we know how to deal with these creeps!
16 posted on 08/06/2002 8:07:44 AM PDT by JMJ333
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To: Cicero5
I wouldn't rely on a broken down justice system.
Nor would I. I would rely on a pump action shotgun.
17 posted on 08/06/2002 8:09:49 AM PDT by Delbert
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"More people are likely to cheer than condemn vigilantes," Fox said. "They turn them into folk heros, even when what they've done is not heroic."

Not heroic? Tell that to the little boy who was sodomized. Or is it that you have more sympathy for the pedophile than for the child, Professor?

18 posted on 08/06/2002 8:11:13 AM PDT by JMJ333
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I'll admit I'm a little torn on this incident. But, it occurs to me that perhaps if we had a little more "vigilante-justice" in this country... there wouldn't be a need for "vigilante-justice."
19 posted on 08/06/2002 8:13:34 AM PDT by grumpster-dumpster
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I think of it this way: This pervert animal has been stopped. Moat likely he will not be harming any more children. His wounds are of less importance to me than his sick rape of a child. He got off easy.
20 posted on 08/06/2002 8:16:11 AM PDT by JMJ333
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