[Justice] Texas father kills man allegedly caught molesting his daughter

Well played sir, well played.

 

I said if the story is what it appears to be. Hopefully the cops did investigate. They should be able to ask the kid since she is 4.

 

That's how I see this playing out, too.

 

In Shiner, Texas, this man walks free. Don't know about anywhere on the East or West coast. I would consider the rape of a child to be the same as murder if I was on that jury. Stopping a murder by inadvertently committing murder when you're the guardian of a 4 year old is not murder nor vigilante in any way. My .02

 

This is in Shiner. No small town local DA is going to charge someone he probably knows for something like this unless there are other facts that got left out of the article.

My childhood friend who was an assistan DA in the valley said people in the valley get off on murder charges(caught guy sleeping with wife) all the time because they know that no jury in the valley would convict them.

 

Asking a kid is not proof, kids are notorious liars. I am sure they have all the physical evidence they need though.

 

They are notorious at being influenced. All you have to do is break out a pyschologist and some dolls. Anyone remember the cases where family members running a daycare were convicted of molesting children but were actually innocent? The psychologist on the case used dolls to show the kids what they wanted them to say happened to them. The kids were just going along with it because it was what the lady wanted to hear. Basically, ruined a family over lies.

 

Forgot about that, saw it in high school psychology.

 

Gif says it all.

 

I just found out that we're having a girl.

I would go ape ish on some guy esp if I caught him in the act. I doubt it would be any different if it was my son.

 

EDIT: Congratulations, sir! ^

Also, no arrests have been made.

 

Need more facts.

 

They should probably arrest him and try him. If he gets off, great. I think it's likely (given my paltry information) he'd win in court, or if he lost he'd get a minor punishment (Texas history especially has plenty of precedent of people getting light punishment or not guilty verdicts for crimes of righteous anger, like due to infidelity). The charges could even get dismissed before going to trial. But, I don't think you should just not arrest him at all.

 

Didn't say the child was rapped, just molested. That can mean anything though.

 

This may be true, but how do you prove the man was molesting your child?

 

True, but the daughter was there, and I am sure the police asked her what happened too.

DD

 

Same here.

The guy did a hero's duty, not a criminal act. But you can't advocate everyone taking justice into their own hands with intent to kill that.

The only deterrent is a symbolic amount of time served, even if it just amounts to a slap in the wrist instead of NOTHING.

(Then as others pointed out, its if the region operates like that. )

 

Playing devil's advocate, was there evidence that the child was being molested? If there is, let him get off lightly. But what's to say, he didn't murdered the guy in a fit of rage and used the daughter to cover it up.

I assume there were no witnesses and we just have to take his word for it. This can lend a very bad precedent. If there's proof then it's a different story. Just saying.

 

There is nothing to get off of, the guy has a right to defend his daughter, there is no crime.

As for justice into your own hands, sometimes you have that right.

DD

 

Why waste people's money and time if everyone knows he didn't do anything wrong. Defending your child is not against the law. Its like saying give everyone a ticket for speeding and make them prove that they didn't speed.