Gofundme for Des Moines trafficking victim
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Don’t be obtuse. The dumb part of your post is it (the punishment) could have been worse.
Not exact but pretty close. He wakes up when she tries to leave, she’s still a 15 year old being sold for sex to creeps like him. There have been no consequences for the guy selling a 15 year old.
So our justice system is bad because it won't let people just kill other people who did bad things to them? Because that is what I was responding to. Sorry, no matter how bad a person deserves to die, we can't just let people carry out vigilante justice. So yes, her punishment could've been worse. I'm glad it wasn't. However, it's a bad precedent to set by letting the girl go scot free. No matter how much the creep deserved it.
To say that the justice system is #$%^#$ up for giving her any type of punishment is what is really dumb. And dangerous.
I wonder how you would react to someone who had imprisoned you and raped you multiple times. I'm sure you'd just call the cops and let them handle it. Right?
So a guy enters my home and I shoot and kill him and I'm fine Scott free no problems. A person rapes me or tries to sex traffick me and I kill them for it, not ok.
She did not get off without punishment. She’s spent 2.5 years in detention. She’s on probation for 5 years. She’s been punished a lot.
It’s just so crazy. A man killed a teenager walking and he wasn’t punished. Two men in Georgia killed a runner and they almost didn’t even get charged.
This girl has been and continues to be punished.
And I think that even if you think her punishment is fair or not bad enough, you would agree that saddling her with 150k in debt after serving that punishment is crazy. How do you think a 20 year old with a GED and basically no family is going to pay off 150k?
This girl is now going to have a shot.
I had actually not heard of this story at all. Not sure how I missed it. I read the article after skimming it originally.
Philosophical question: Does it make a difference if she had killed him while he was raping her? Why is it not ok (immediately?) after? If she thought he was going to do it again, isn't it still in the act?
From a legal perspective, stand your ground laws apply to crimes being committed in the moment.....a person is justified in using reasonable force in circumstances that could lead to personal injury or loss of property.
That doesn't apply to retribution for previous injury or to prevent future injury; you have to have been depending yourself, someone else, or your property at the time you "stood your ground" for it to be considered a justifiable use of force.
