No charges for Texas man who killed molester

[Ragnar]

No charges for Shiner, Texas dad who killed daughter's alleged attacker | abc13.com

No real surprise here baring new evidence. Some of the horror of the day is evident from the 911 call...

Flores was killed June 9 on a family ranch so remote that the father is heard profanely screaming at a dispatcher who couldn’t locate the property.

“Come on! This guy is going to die on me!” the father yells. “I don’t know what to do!”…

The tense, nearly five-minute 911 call begins with the father saying that he “beat up” a man found raping his daughter. The father grows increasingly frazzled, cursing and crying into the phone so loudly at times that the call often becomes inaudible.

At one point tells the dispatcher he’s going to put the man in his truck and drive him to a hospital before sheriff’s deputies finally arrive.

“He’s going to die!” the father screams. “He’s going to (expletive) die!”

No charges from grand jury for Texas dad who beat daughter’s molester to death « Hot Air

The only hope the prosecution had of an indictment was some sort of evidence, forensic or otherwise, that the father had beaten the guy vindictively after he was powerless to resist, which would have blurred the line on self-defense. Instead, the 911 call suggested the opposite — that dad was genuinely horrified that he had killed the guy, notwithstanding what he had done to his daughter. It’s said of grand juries that they’ll indict a ham sandwich if the prosecution asks them to. Not only couldn’t the D.A. meet that standard here, I don’t think they were even close.

I think this is the right call. Unless more information comes out contradicting what facts I know I doubt I'll change my mind in this lifetime. Lethal force legally applied is not pretty or easy to contemplate but rarely does it seem so appropriate as in this case.

God help that little girl and her family.

 

[JimBowie1958]

What? They didnt give him a REWARD?

I'm outraged, lol.

 

[eflatminor]

The father is obviously a hater and probably a racist. Those poor people with the urge to rape little girls are victims. They were born that way so raping little girls is obviously not their fault. They need rehabilitation and social acceptance, not violence.

What we need is an act of Congress, a law protecting the rights of rapists...with appropriate funding of course for intervention, rehabilitation, and school programs to teach kids to treat rapists just like everyone else. Of course, we'll have to amend the history books in public schools to highlight the accomplishments of child rapists. Perhaps we could even have an official rapist history day.

What say you?

 

[konradv]

What's this? A prosecutor using his own initiative to not go after someone because it's a waste of resources, rather than putting it into the hands of a jury? Shouldn't he be impeached? He's overstepping his bounds and putting the law in his own hands! Right, righties?

 

[JimBowie1958]

What's this? A prosecutor using his own initiative to not go after someone because it's a waste of resources, rather than putting it into the hands of a jury? Shouldn't he be impeached? He's overstepping his bounds and putting the law in his own hands! Right, righties?

What the sam hell are you squawking about?

 

[JimBowie1958]

The father is obviously a hater and probably a racist. Those poor people with the urge to rape little girls are victims. They were born that way so raping little girls is obviously not their fault. They need rehabilitation and social acceptance, not violence.

What we need is an act of Congress, a law protecting the rights of rapists...with appropriate funding of course for intervention, rehabilitation, and school programs to teach kids to treat rapists just like everyone else. Of course, we'll have to amend the history books in public schools to highlight the accomplishments of child rapists. Perhaps we could even have an official rapist history day.

What say you?

Lol, you had me going for a few nanoseconds there.

 

[Ernie S.]

The father is obviously a hater and probably a racist. Those poor people with the urge to rape little girls are victims. They were born that way so raping little girls is obviously not their fault. They need rehabilitation and social acceptance, not violence.

What we need is an act of Congress, a law protecting the rights of rapists...with appropriate funding of course for intervention, rehabilitation, and school programs to teach kids to treat rapists just like everyone else. Of course, we'll have to amend the history books in public schools to highlight the accomplishments of child rapists. Perhaps we could even have an official rapist history day.

What say you?

A text book for the course could be titled, "Heather has 2 rapists"?