Applause erupted in a New Jersey courtroom Wednesday, after emotional remarks from a man who pleaded guilty to stabbing and killing the man he says molested him as a child.
As CBS2’s Dave Carlin reported, Clark Fredericks, 49, admitted to the stabbing that killed Dennis Pegg, who was his Boy Scout leader and a family friend decades ago.
The case has many asking whether Fredericks was right or wrong.
“From the time I was 8 years old until I was 12 years old, I was sexually assaulted and raped by Dennis Pegg,” Fredericks said in the Sussex County courtroom.
The confessed killer delivered a detailed, gut-wrenching account of what he said happened to him as a child, and what he did about it more than three decades later.[...]
Friends in the courtroom sobbed as Fredericks talked about Pegg torturing and killing animals, threatening do the same to him if he “told anyone about our secret.” He said for many years, he would deny it whenever his mother and father asked if Pegg had hurt him even though they suspected it.
But Fredericks said because Pegg was a “respected law enforcement officer,” an “expert with guns,” and a leader in the Boy Scouts, he was “untouchable.”
“No one would believe my word over his,” he said. [...]
He should not have to go to jail. Call it "time served." Three decades of pain and suffering should be enough.
ReplyDeleteThe man he killed who he claims molested him was never accused and convicted of molesting him. Letting him get away with murder by claiming he was molested would open the legal floodgates for many future murderers to claim his victim molested him.
ReplyDeleteHe cannot take the law into his own hands. Or based on his own unsubstantiated claims.
The story of the defendant and the extent of it has not been proven and before the defendant made his emotional plea he was well prepared by his lawyer.
ReplyDeleteHe is now getting just a few years in prison for a proven cruel murder.
Absolutely correct. In effect, Simon Pegg was placed on trial without due process, and was found guilty without being allowed to confront his accuser, without proof being offered, without the legal authorities involved, and then his unlawful "execution" was sanctioned after the fact. So much for "justice."
ReplyDeleteAlso, I find the idea of a crime of passion after three and a half decades laughable. Especially when it was the result of planning.