If I was the judge in the 18 year old's trial (and not restricted by legal booyah), I would consider him a danger to children and give him the option of life in an institution or physical plus chemical castration with lifelong probation.
In my ideal institution, since we are fantasising, he would be able to get an education and work.
For the father, I would recommend community service; mostly so he would have the opportunity to get over what had happened to his daughter.
S.A.M. said:
I think anyone who endangers a child should not be let out on bail.
MetaKron said:
I think he did a community service already.
It's a reasonable proposition. Unfortunately, a general application of such a rule is simply infeasible. It sounds great when someone claims to have caught a suspect in the act, but this is America, and, whether you like it or not, this suspect is innocent until proven guilty. This particular accusation, as repugnant as it is, does not describe a no-bail case, especially when the accused has no criminal record.
That was too light. I would have killed him very, very slowly.
He has no respect for the law, obviously. He didn't think the law could inflict an adequate punishment, an eye for an eye. It doesn't work like that here.
I would have killed him as soon as I caught him. He never would have made it to jail,
Here is an issue that should have been raised: Under no circumstances should the stepson have been allowed back in the house with the girl who he allegedly sodomized.
I agree.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
The father's actions have proven him to be equally violent and sick as the stepson who raped his daughter.
Instead of driving out to pick up the boy, he should have taken the girl away and gotten her the help she needs to recover from her own ordeal. What he has done is placed himself in a position where he may now have to be away from his daughter, if he finds himself jailed for what he has done. Worst of all, he has now allowed his daughter's rapist to become a victim of rape. His sodomising his daughter's rapist will now take away from what the stepson did and brand the stepson as a victim.
He should have given the law a chance to work.
Don't get me wrong, if it were my child who had been raped, I would have sought revenge too. But not like this. If the law failed to jail the stepson after a trial, then I would probably find myself hunting him down and killing him with my bare hands. But to leave the daughter behind (I am assuming she was not with him when he went to pick the stepson from the police station?), then take the time to sodomise the stepson and beat him like that.. that time could have been better spent with his daughter and getting her out of the house and taking her someplace where she would feel safe. In short, he put his own need for revenge over his daughter's needs.
His first priority should have been to his daughter, not to exacting revenge on the stepson.
Does anyone else think he should have just fucking killed him? A dead guy can't rape anyone.
because he was administering revenge in kind ...