There are times where I’m left completely baffled by a court decision (OK, truthfully it happens more often than not). Take the case of Maria del Carmen Garcia. When her daughter was 13 years-old she was raped. The rapist was sentenced to nine years in prison and was released on parol after seven. After being released the rapist ran into Maria:
While on parole he came in contact with Garcia after returning to the family’s hometown in Spain and asked her, “How’s your daughter?”
I’m sure running into her daughter’s rapist wasn’t a happy situation to begin with but asking how her daughter is doing is rubbing salt in an open wound. Maria then responded in a way that I feel was actually very lenient:
Locating the convicted rapist in a bar, she doused him with newly purchased petrol, and set him on fire, reports The Local. The man died a week later as a result of the burns.
Of all the horrible tortures she could have inflicted on her daughter’s rapist I must admit that dousing him with gasoline and lighting him ablaze was actually quite civil. It was certainly far better than the rapist deserved. Unfortunately the courts disagreed and decided locking Maria in prison was the best way to handle the situation. Initially she received a longer sentence than her rapist but at least the Spanish Supreme Court reduced it. Still the decision to cage Maria doesn’t appear to be very popular with the locals as thousands have signed a petition requesting clemency, which goes to show how popular people who rape children are.
The fact that Maria is sitting in a cage baffles me.
Well, it is called the legal system, not the justice system.
I have almost zero sympathy for the rapist as he would have to be messed up to do his heinous deed. Killing him seems a bit extreme. I would think a more appropriate treatment would be to sic some local folks on him who are willing to beat the snot out of him every time he appears in public. After he finds himself afraid to leave his house, he might gain some insight into what he did to the girl. It would be too bad if he then found himself homeless due to an unfortunate fire…