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Re: wdyt- Eric Smith up for parole
"He's no more harm to society than anyone who didn't commit a crime as a child."
Sorry. Not buying it.
no. Just no. I'm sorry but I just cannot believe that the issues that cause a person to do something like this can ever be fully resolved. And certainly not after less than 20 years.
He also had read Stephen King books, back-to-back, dealing with children, violence and pets. That, some people in town say, was seen as a terribly important clue because of the one act in his background that pushed him outside the bounds of normalcy. Four years ago he strangled a neighbor's cat. He slipped a metal laundry hose clamp over the head of Sammy, a Siamese sealpoint, and tightened it around the animal's neck until it died.
So At 9 years old he was killing cats.
Holy shiits this is like text book sociopath. You can't rehabilitate someone who is physically incapable of emotion.
Yeah me too. Somebody check my backyard for dead babies. WTF?
No. He is not just like people who did not commit a crime as a child. I accept that he is not psychologically the same as he was as a 13 year old, because except in special circumstances that doesn't happen. That does not mean that he should be allowed any return to a normal life. Call me judgmental, call me vengeful, whatever. I can live with that if it eliminates the possibility of another victim.
I remember this story - but I never knew that he sodomized the kid!
I'm not buying that he's no more dangerous than anyone else. It's not like some 5 year old who plays with a gun and doesn't really understand death. He was 13 and chose a weak 4 year old victim.
Considering that their state law must allow them to hold him as an adult, I'm surprised he's seriously being considered for parole. I wouldn't think that 20 years for an unprovoked first degree murder/sex crime with no real motive wouldn't normally merit a parole. Hell, Charlie Manson is still serving time and he didn't kill anyone...
I'm surprised that the state is admitting he's a model prisoner. In RI we had a case where a kid broke into two houses and murdered two families when he was 13-15. Our law at the time was that he had to be released at 18. He's still serving time today well into his 30s. First they managed to keep him in jail because of an "assault on a guard" and through the years there have been fights with other prisoners, refusal to take a psychological exam, etc.
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