Man free to rape again

[resignedfromtheworld]

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He raped and stabbed a women, they let him go, raped again. Now is a suspect in a case in which a woman has gone missing. Maybe he stabbed her and killed her like he tried before? There is no such thing as rehabilitation.

Why let him go again?

According to the Minnesota Department of Corrections Web site, Rodriguez is a level 3 sex offender -- considered most at risk to reoffend -- and has a history of using force and weapons to kidnap and sexually assault women. In at least two cases, he did not know his victims, according to the Web site. Rodriguez was released from prison May 1. He had been found guilty in June 1980 of first-degree assault and kidnapping for stabbing a woman and forcing her into his car, but it was unclear if that was his most recent conviction.

At the time of that assault and kidnapping, he was on leave from what is now the State Security Hospital at St. Peter. He had been there since pleading guilty to an aggravated rape in Crookston about six years earlier.Wayne Swanson, a former Polk County attorney who prosecuted Rodriguez in the 1980 case, said that he put investigators on Rodriguez's trail.

"Someone had grabbed a woman off the street. She was pretty gutsy, and she fought him and tried to get away, and he stabbed her," Swanson said Tuesday.

[TheShrike]

Well, maybe if you let your representitives know that you're more concerned about rapists than, for instance, marijuana laws, these guys would stay where they belong... Away from the rest of us.

[TheTio]

They should be allowed to give men like this the death penalty, they dont deserve life.

[Jal]

I agree with the shrike, but I don't think they deserve death penalty, it's too sweet for them.

[EvilGovernmentAgents]

Whatever happened to the days of public stoning?

[karasz]

At 12/3/03 06:35 AM, UNpossibility wrote: Whatever happened to the days of public stoning?

it went out with the macarena

sweet or not kill the fucker... cuz unlike in prison HE CANT DO IT AGAIN if hes dead

[Slizor]

Maybe they should reassess the rehabilitation system instead of dismiss it......if this was rehabilitation at all, which I doubt.

[RedSkunk]

At 12/3/03 09:11 AM, Slizor wrote: Maybe they should reassess the rehabilitation system instead of dismiss it......if this was rehabilitation at all, which I doubt.

I was reading a great article about the new 'faith-based' rehab programs circulating the prison systems. Funding for regular rehab gets more and more constricted, while christianized propaganda is well-funded..

Regardless, at least in this case, any rehab does not sound promising. I'd say a near indefinite prison sentence would be optimum.

[TheShrike]

At 12/3/03 09:11 AM, Slizor wrote: Maybe they should reassess the rehabilitation system instead of dismiss it......if this was rehabilitation at all, which I doubt.

I have little faith in rehab for sex offenders.

Scratch that, no faith.

[Samuel-HALL]

At 12/3/03 01:14 PM, TheShrike wrote:

At 12/3/03 09:11 AM, Slizor wrote: Maybe they should reassess the rehabilitation system instead of dismiss it......if this was rehabilitation at all, which I doubt.

I have little faith in rehab for sex offenders.

Scratch that, no faith.

Misproportioned facts. That's what the media gives us, folks, and we all know it. We cannot allow ourselves to believe that every person who has committed a sex crime will do it again...that's just...ignorant. Don't get me wrong, I'm just as against sex offenders as the next non-sex offending guy...but i also believe in a second chance.
If a man kills someone, and does thirty years in jail, that should be the end of it. He committed a crime, served his sentance, and is attempting to move on in life. It is unfair to ostrasize (SP) him due to something he was punished for.
It'd be like going to jail for habitual crack smoking/selling, getting out ten years later, and having your whole neighborhood protest you living there. Sex offender or not, people have a right to live in peace. I've heard no evidence that this released sex offender had anything to do with this woman dissapearing (correct me if i'm wrong, now, because it wouldn't be the first time). It all sounds like suspicion and 'what-if' questions.

[RedSkunk]

At 12/3/03 02:15 PM, Damien3003 wrote: If a man kills someone, and does thirty years in jail, that should be the end of it. He committed a crime, served his sentance, and is attempting to move on in life. It is unfair to ostrasize (SP) him due to something he was punished for.

Exactly. Thus, I'm fairely angry at felons not being allowed to vote. They've served their time, they get out, try to get on with their lives, and aren't qualified as regular citizens at the most basic level.

It seems doubly asinine when you factor in how much our prison systems are weighted towards incarcerating blacks and other minorities...

[bumcheekcity]

At 12/3/03 01:14 PM, TheShrike wrote: I have little faith in rehab for sex offenders.

Scratch that, no faith.

How exactly so you rehabilitate a rapist, anyway?

[Jimsween]

At 12/3/03 05:37 PM, bumcheekcity wrote:

At 12/3/03 01:14 PM, TheShrike wrote: I have little faith in rehab for sex offenders.

Scratch that, no faith.

How exactly so you rehabilitate a rapist, anyway?

Heavy phsycology is the best choice, but it certainly isn't putting them in a mild sercurity prison for a few years.

[stonedpimp69]

Why did we have to ditch all the cruel public executions.(example great britain, middle ages beeing hanged(on the strangulation point until ALMOST dead) drawn(and finally having your inner organs removed) and quartered(having your arms and legs chopped off). Well ok maybe that is a bit TOO brutal(except for Bin Laden/Hussein who shoulds be tortured first) but I think you get the idea of what type of execution i'm talking about...

[TheShrike]

At 12/3/03 05:37 PM, bumcheekcity wrote: How exactly do you rehabilitate a rapist, anyway?

If it were up to me, it would involve a gun.