Dad beats daughter’s alleged molester to death

[Locutus]

A father who said he saw a man molesting his 4-year-old daughter behind a barn in Lavaca County apparently beat the man to death Saturday afternoon, officials said.

The death occurred about 3:45 p.m. at a horse barn along County Road 302 near Shiner, about 127 miles west of Houston, said Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon.

Harmon said the victim, a 47-year-old Gonzales man, died at the scene. His name has not been released because his next of kin has not yet been notified of the death.

No arrests have been made in the case. Harmon said a grand jury will probably to determine what, if any charges, will be filed.

Harmon said the father and daughter were at their barn with several other people to groom and care for horses there. The victim came with some of the other people, but was not well-known, if all, to the father and child.

The group later heard the girl screaming behind the barn, Harmon said. Her father ran to see what was wrong and said he saw the man allegedly sexually assaulting the child. While pulling the man away from the girl, he hit the man several times in the head, Harmon said.

The girl was taken to DeTar hospital in Victoria to be evaluated and to have tests done to determine if a sexual assault occurred. She was released later.

The Travis County Medical Examiner’s Office is expected to perform an autopsy on the victim to determine what caused his death.




Dad beats daughter’s alleged molester to death | Newswatch | a Chron.com blog

via: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/he-...as-dad-beats-his-daughters-molester-to-death/

 

[spaminator]

damn good.

 

[Walter]

Hope he got the right guy.

 

[lone wolf]

I'd love to e-mail Daddy a favoured beverage....

 

[SLM]

That has got to be an "in the heat of the moment" situation if I ever heard one, so I'm sure he won't see charges filed. If he does, I'd bet they'd be dismissed. This will never go to trial. No jury would convict him.

 

[earth_as_one]

Death to pediatricians!

Kill The Man With the Neck Brace who looks like the bad man in the news

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

That has got to be an "in the heat of the moment" situation if I ever heard one, so I'm sure he won't see charges filed. If he does, I'd bet they'd be dismissed. This will never go to trial. No jury would convict him.

Temporary insanity if I ever saw a case.

 

[lone wolf]

Death to pediatricians!

Kill The Man With the Neck Brace who looks like the bad man in the news

Big difference between mistaken identity and caught with his pants down - so to speak

 

[earth_as_one]

Did anyone else see this man molesting the little girl?

 

[SLM]

Big difference between mistaken identity and caught with his pants down - so to speak

You beat me to the punch, pun fully intended of course , I was just about to point that out as well.

 

[lone wolf]

Did anyone else see this man molesting the little girl?

If it was my kid, nobody else would have to.

 

[earth_as_one]

Let me get this straight. Its OK to kill someone if you claim afterwards that you saw them molesting a child.

Can anyone kill an alleged pedophile or do you have to be a parent?

Also, why stop with pedophiles. I can think of many other crimes which push people's hot buttons. If a car accident results in a death and the perpetrator is obviously drunk, he should be pulled from his car and beaten to death by the angry mob.

Does anyone else think other crimes should excuse vigilante justice?

How about if you catch your wife having sex with another man. She's not breaking the law, but many countries do not charge the husband with murder if he kills his wife and her lover. (Italy, Haiti...) Does anyone here support the killer in these cases too?

After the angry vigilantes have killed all the bad people no one will be left except the good people and then we wouldn't need a criminal justice system.

 

[lone wolf]

Let me get this straight. Its OK to kill someone if you claim afterwards that you saw them molesting a child. Can anyone do this or do you have to be a parent?

Why? Working on something?

I doubt if the intent was to kill. Never been a father, eh?

 

[SLM]

No. What's understandable is how a parent will react to finding someone harming their child.

 

[JLM]

A father who said he saw a man molesting his 4-year-old daughter behind a barn in Lavaca County apparently beat the man to death Saturday afternoon, officials said.

The death occurred about 3:45 p.m. at a horse barn along County Road 302 near Shiner, about 127 miles west of Houston, said Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon.


via: Texas Dad Beats Man to Death After Catching Him Molesting His Four Year Old Daughter | TheBlaze.com

Why would charges be laid? I'd offer the guy a $150,000 a year job on the vice squad, pedaphile division! :smile:

 

[WLDB]

I can understand why he did it if he's telling the truth. I imagine I'd want to do the same, but killing the guy is a bit over the top.

 

[Locutus]

Remember this?

Father kills son's kidnapper **Must Watch** - YouTube


Father Who Killed Alleged Abuser on TV Avoids Jail


BATON ROUGE, La. — A father who shot and killed a man suspected of abducting and sexually abusing his son was sentenced today to five years' probation and ordered to perform community service work.

Calling the shooting a tragedy, Judge Frank Saia suspended a sentence of seven years at hard labor for Leon Gary Plauche, who pleaded no contest on May 16 to manslaughter in the death of Jeffrey Doucet.

Doucet, 25, was shot in the head at the Baton Rouge airport on March 16, 1984. At the time of the shooting, which was filmed by a television crew, deputies were escorting Doucet in handcuffs after returning him from California, where FBI agents had arrested him on a charge of kidnaping Plauche's 11-year-old son.

Plauche was originally indicted on a charge of second-degree murder but bargained with prosecutors to plead no contest to the reduced charge of manslaughter, which carried a maximum sentence of 21 years in prison.

Two psychological reports to the court included detailed accounts given by both Plauche and his son.

Dr. James L. Brabham reported that the son described how Doucet, the youth's martial-arts instructor, had sexually abused him for months prior to the shooting, telling him "real men don't need women."

Dr. Edward P. Uzee examined the father and concluded that Plauche could not tell the difference between right and wrong when he shot Doucet. He said Plauche "developed a sense of righteous mission directed by what Gary sensed as the voice of Jesus telling him that if he did not kill his son's sexual molester that the man would continue to harm his son and other children."

Judge Saia said it was evident that locking Plauche in jail would not help and said, "In this case, if there is anything that is unusual, it is because both sides are victims. Both sides suffered."

Roland Doucet, a brother, called the sentencing an outrage.

"I don't believe justice was done," he said.

 

[lone wolf]

Plauche's problem was it was after the fact. OP was heat of the moment and, apparently, without weapon

 

[earth_as_one]

Why? Working on something?

I doubt if the intent was to kill. Never been a father, eh?

I have two children. Since we are getting personal, has your spouse ever screwed around on you? Did (or would) that make you angry enough to kill someone?

I doubt I would ever deliberately take a human life, even in anger. As soon as we start crossing these lines, the slope gets very slippery. that's why we have a criminal justice system.

Its possible the killer could have had another motivation and the child abuse allegation is just a diversion. Or its possible something else was going on and the father misinterpreted what he saw. I'd like to hear the other guy's side of the story first, except he's dead. Likely the evidence will be inconclusive, and in the end, all we'll have is a killer's word about what happened. Sounds like an easy way to get away with murder.

"Roland Doucet, a brother, called the sentencing an outrage.
"I don't believe justice was done," he said."

Sounds like Roland Doucet has a better case than Plauche for resorting to vigilante justice. The criminal justice system let Plauche get away with murder. Also Plauche is lucky he didn't kill someone else.

Remember that murder in Toronto's Eaton Center last week? that was a case of vigilante justice gone wrong. The killer was previously robbed and stabbed by the intended target. The killer didn't mean to shoot the little kid in the head and wound all those other people. Those were vigilante accidents:

The man killed in the deadly Eaton Centre shooting in Toronto that left six other people wounded apparently stabbed the suspect three months ago, CBC News has learned.
Ahmed Hassan, 24, died in the Saturday evening shooting that plunged the landmark mall in downtown Toronto into chaos as thousands of shoppers fled in terror.
Hassan and another man, a 23-year-old who can't be identified due to a publication ban, were the suspected targets of the shooting, police said Monday.
Toronto police have identified Ahmed Hassan, 24, as the man killed in the shooting in the food court of the Eaton Centre on Saturday. Toronto police have identified Ahmed Hassan, 24, as the man killed in the shooting in the food court of the Eaton Centre on Saturday. (Toronto Police Service)
The episode left five other innocent bystanders — including a 13-year-old boy — wounded and forced the evacuation of the mall...
Stabbing prompted Eaton Centre shooting, sources say - Toronto - CBC News

A very slippery slope....

 

[Just the Facts]

Its possible the killer could have had another motivation and the child abuse allegation is just a diversion. Or its possible something else was going on and the father misinterpreted what he saw. I'd like to hear the other guy's side of the story first, except he's dead. Likely the evidence will be inconclusive, and in the end, all we'll have is a killer's word about what happened. Sounds like an easy way to get away with murder.

Of course it's possible the killer could have had another motivation and the child abuse allegation is just a diversion. That's why the girl was immediately taken to be examined. It's also possible that tests will be inconclusive, but why likely? It also sounded like there were others around, so witnesses to the events. I think there are easier ways to get away with murder.

A very slippery slope....

It's not a slope, heat of passion as a defense has been around as long as I can remember. You seem to be having a hard time distinguishing vigilanteism from heat of passion. Two different ball games.

provocation (which only applies in murder cases and involves a killing committed in the heat of passion, which has been caused suddenly by a wrongful act or insult sufficient to deprive an ordinary person of his self-control)

Criminal Law - The Canadian Encyclopedia