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(CBS/KPIX) A judge showed no mercy Tuesday in sentencing 32-year old Aaron Vargas to nine years in prison, for murdering the man he claimed sexually molested him as a child.
According to CBS affiliate KPIX, Vargas testified that 63-year-old Darrell McNeill sexually abused him when he was 11 and continued to pursue him into adulthood. Vargas shot McNeill in February 2009 with a Civil War-style pistol and watched him take his last breath while the victim's wife, Elizabeth McNeill, stood nearby.[...]
If you could get away with murdering someone by claiming the guy molested you when you were a child, anarchy would reign supreme.
ReplyDeleteBravo for the Judge.
If it is proven beyond doubt which it seems it was,that this man abused him and many others, the killing was in essence a "self defense" and in defense for all other past and future victims this dead man abused..obviously reporting the abuse to the authorities for so many years by so manyother victims did not help... Aron should be acquitted!He did society a justice where the courts failed to do so.
ReplyDelete9 years for murder. Lucky he didn't cheat on his loan application like Rubashkin was accused of. That's 27 years.
ReplyDeleteOf course, which hurts society more? Murderers? Or loan cheats?
Obviously the banks know and control everything.
I may be all for the killing a rodeif, but since when are revenge & self-defense synonymous?
ReplyDeleteDave is right: The judgement was just, even if the "victim" in this case warranted no mercy, it's not for some pained vigilante to carry out the brutal sentence.
I temper my previous comments somewhat, having listened now to the interview on top of just reading the story. It sounds like there was good grounds for the judge not to hand down the MAXIMUM sentence.
ReplyDeleteBut, still, could anyone believe that less than five years incarceration is sufficient sentence for a hotblooded murder?
Vigilante justice is not murder--we have the whole parsha of Shimon and Levi killing the whole city of Shechem. The judge should have given him a medal.
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