

By MAMAMIA TEAM
WARNING: The following content includes descriptions of abuse. If this is a trigger subject for you, you may want to sit this one out.
An American man who killed his daughter’s rapist will not spend a single night in prison. In fact, police have decided they won’t even bother pressing charges.
It’s a seriously loaded sentence, and carries some loaded questions too.
The 24-year-old father, a Texas rancher, allegedly found one of his employees abusing his 5-year-old daughter.
On the day of the alleged assault, the father sent his daughter and her brother out to feed the chickens. Soon after, the boy rushed back in distress, and told the father that someone had grabbed his sister, and carried her off to the nearby barn.
The father left and – following the sound of his daughter’s cries for help – and found 47-year-old Jesus Mora Flores molesting his daughter behind the barn. According to documents from the court, both the girl and Flores had their underwear removed.
Flying into a rage, the father pulled Flores away from his daughter, before hitting him several times around the head and on his neck until the molester fell unconscious.
The father quickly called 911. Authorities released the distressing tapes of the call, as the frantic 24-year-old begged for help.
Top Comments
I think the
point is being missed here. Not a single reader of this article would deny what the sexual offender did was disgusting. It is completely understandable, and agreeable by some, as to the father reaction. But that doesn’t make it right. We are lucky, as are Americans, do be privileged enough to live in a country where the legal justice system actually works (for the most part). Most places in the world don’t! Just because we can identify with the father doesn’t mean his actions are legally defendable. To take a life is still wrong, wether you want to believe that or not. I may have done the same if it were my daughter but I would have to accept the consequences of my actions.
The main problem with applying the death sentence as a penalty is that it can’t be effectively regulated. How does one draw the line as to what’s an acceptable offense before it’s “fair” to take a person’s life?
We cannot, as a functional society, regulate one set of standards for determining life and death for criminals and another for the rest.
If you say “they deserve to rot in hell” they you believe there is something after this life. So why not let them face their judgment when their time is up.
If you don’t share this belief then why not let them “rot in a cell” instead? Economically it costs the tax payer less for a life in prison sentence than the death
sentence.
What’s saddest for me is that I’ve seen acts like this happen every day in countries you don’t hear about in the news. It’s only the rare moments in the Western world that such things are broadcasted. Regardless of your stance on this, I wish your passion and outrage can also be accompanied with information and education in an effort for you to do something about it where it can make a difference.
You toucha my kid, I breaka your face.