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Paragons of Virtue Arrested

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It's time to name and shame the self-proclaimed paragons of virtue. Keep it civil, though.

Stories are about those who have been placed in positions of trust, and then abused that trust.

Feel free to add stories of the self-righteous from other walks of life.

New rule: With regard to stories of particularly, but not only, female teachers sexually assaulting students. Any comments similar to "where were they when I was in school" will earn you the right to find another forum.

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Penn. Police Officer Accused of Raping and Physically Abusing 13-Month-Old Child (uk.news.yahoo.com)

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The investigation showed that the young child "suffered broken bones, severe bruising, and was the victim of sexual violence," according to a press release

A 13-month-old child was allegedly raped and physically abused by a Pennsylvania police offer.

Steven Kyle Cugini, a member of the York City Police Department, was arrested without incident on Tuesday, April 16, following an investigation by the Pennsylvania State Police, Lykens Station, and Lykens Criminal Investigation Unit.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

News like this shocks me but then I do that thing we do when we hear bad news and see who's responsible. Like a bad stereotype, it's some authoritarian who votes conservative and wants special treatment.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

13 month old baby? Wtf?!

Who looks at a baby like that?

[+] [email protected] -10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Baby…a 13-month-old child is a baby. This degenerate raped and mauled a baby. No trial. No due process straight to the chair.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No trial. No due process...

You should be ashamed to have typed that. I understand your frustration and anger (I fully agree with you there), but without a trial or due process, I could just say "@[email protected] raped a 13 month old" and now you're going to die.

I hope you can see the problem

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Dudes going to get murdered in prison...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There should absolutely be due process. But if convicted, then straight to the chair

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I find it so strange the US still has the death penalty and to read people on lemmy advocate for it surprisingly frequently, despite its rather progressive user base.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's the problem with living in a society that has a death penalty... it leads to one having thoughts about how it should be effectively used.

Y'know, since we have it. Can't let it go to waste.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm in the US and I'm not for the death penalty. I think states (Texas, Georgia, etc) have a twisted judicial system and get it wrong too often.

This sort of case is what stops me from full throated opposition. This person should not exist.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So keep them in the cage if that's what you feel is necessary. Revenge still isn't worth it.

I get it though, I'm not impervious either.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm really not in favor of my taxes going to a for-profit prison so this guy can eat and sleep for the rest of his life. And somewhere, someone is profiting off of it because he committed a crime.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The appeals process really is more expensive. And then in the case he can be actually proven innocent, he isn't dead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

but the market needs slavery to survive, isn't a mcdouble expensive enough already?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I agree, but I have two problems.

Innocent people go to jail all the time, including those who seem overwhelmingly guilty at first.
If sexually abusing a child is enough to have them put to death, then others will simply kill their victim and dispose of them - the crime has the same penalty after all.

So I can't support the death penalty, but I can fully support removing them from society entirely, keeping them completely confined for the rest of their life.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If sexually abusing a child is enough to have them put to death, then others will simply kill their victim and dispose of them - the crime has the same penalty after all.

This is an interesting point. The justice system has intentionally designed the punishments in a tiered way to help avoid exactly this. I don't have any data about its effectiveness, but it seems like a smart idea.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

They should still get time to appeal though. What if they shouldn't have been convicted