Parents Accused Of Killing Their 17-Year-Old Daughter’s Pimp

Yes, our system of justice is imperfect. But then again...here on the blue planet...name a better one. ;-)

Friend Robocop33, you needn't remind of your political opinion of our government. Suffice to say, irrespective of anyone's political views, our democracy is founded on inalienable rights of the individual and the presumption of innocence in courts of law.

Other states are not so fortunate. The presumption of guilt is the chief engine of tyranny, totalitarianism, fascism and all manner of chaos. Witness the stoning of a woman who has humiliated her kin.

Whatever good the parents thought they were doing when they put a bullet through a man's head is not for us to decide is the better part of justice - not where the rule of law must prevail. You know quite well the law looks quite dimly on premeditated murder as a form of self-defense. Or the defense of one's child.

Your sentiments are shared, but as ssu459 says, and I know you agree, murder is murder.

I remind you that we live in a Republic and NOT a Democracy. Still not the point. These parents were desperate to save their daughter and I am sure that they saw this as defending their daughter against a thing that was certainly going to kill her, be it a slow and pain-ridden death or a quick death one night. They saw this as the only option left open to them as for some reason the LE community failed to help them. The OFFICERS failed these parents and they should answer for that failure, not the parents who took the last resort to protect her.

Fortunately the rule of law provides severe punishment for vigilante murder, however justified it would seem. To allow vigilante murder opens the door for the kind of society we abhor. At the time of this writing, there are countless parents awaiting justice for the rape, murder and dismemberment of their children. We ask them to stay the sword so we may wield it. That is Justice, in action.

Though swift, vigilantism can never be righteous because the sword-wielder is not one man, but all of us - if we condone it. We cannot. We answer to a higher authority. For that duty, in the onslaught of time, we suffer. But we also triumph. Such is the nature of integrity. Such is the nature of our Democracy.

Both civilian and LEO know the nature of the double-edged sword wielded by the Lady, and the scales she holds aloft. The presumption of innocence until proven guilty in a court of law.

To suffer and to triumph - surely a purgatory - but the only means by which we prevail.

Our democratic ideals, in action.

She did make the decision to live that lifestyle...she was "forced," just as the article states. Often times these girls can not get away from their pimps, for fear of retribution from the pimp. This girl needed help and her family gave it to her, as all other avenues they attempted were not effective.

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I have no words for this.

Doc