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no_to_war_economy Donating Member (962 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 09:01 PM
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Officials Say Girl Raped, Buried Alive
Jessica died of asphyxiation, according to a coroner's report. A convicted sex offender, John Evander Couey, 46, is charged in her slaying.

Officials said they believe Jessica may have been alive in Couey's home while police and volunteers searched for her. After she was killed, Couey fled to Georgia.

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20050420/D89JE96O0.html
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oldtime dfl_er Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 09:04 PM
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1. I oppose the death penalty but
in cases like this I sure do waver. Sick asshole!

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wakeme2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 09:14 PM
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2. Normally I am the same, but this guy confessed to doing it.
So to me, it would not be a big deal if they put him down.
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lazarus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 12:34 AM
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24. Yeah
and we've never seen a false or forced confession.

Ever.

I oppose the death penalty in all cases, because it's wrong for the government to take a life.
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youthere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 07:46 AM
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32. I don't want him to get the death penalty
I want him locked in a cell with the biggest most violent rapist in the prison system. I want that rapist to have a hefty bag and a roll of duct tape. I want this bastard to feel even one tenth of the terror and pain that little girl went through.
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Igel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 11:16 AM
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34. And if he's not guilty?
And you approve of torture?
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youthere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 11:36 AM
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36. and if he's not guilty
Edited on Thu Apr-21-05 11:43 AM by youthere
he will be found such at the trial, and I'll pray they find the one who DID do it so they can suffer. And let me tell you as the mother of three young children (two of them daughters) I want the person who did this to experience every ounce of the terror and pain that child did. I can't,not in my wildest imagination, contrive an act more evil than what has been done here.
Maybe it's because I'm incredibly angry as I read this story and it's my rage talking, but this is absolutely how I feel about this.
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SweetLeftFoot Donating Member (905 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 11:41 AM
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37. Sigh
terror is not something that can be measured out, weighed and given like for like.
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youthere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 11:44 AM
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38. No,
Edited on Thu Apr-21-05 11:46 AM by youthere
but I have a feeling some of those inmates can come pretty close.
On edit:
I'm sorry, I have no ability to feel pity or mercy towards the perpetrator of this crime.
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SweetLeftFoot Donating Member (905 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 11:47 AM
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39. But
where does that leave us? Aiding and abetting in rape and torture?

The dark Side is seductive I know but it's this sort thinking that got us into the position of kids getting their faces shot off in Baghdad because they felt "somebody had to pay for 9/11"
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 09:22 PM
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3. crying
that's horrible :cry:
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smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 09:25 PM
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4. WTF is it with Florida and psychotic sex offenders?
I say shoot the fucker in the balls and let him bleed to death.
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amber dog democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 09:32 PM
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6. No - just send him to a maximum security lock up
but let the general popluation know who he is and what he did.
i promise he would not last very long. Marion, San Quentan, Attica, or the Texas Dept of Corrections would do. you'd be better off dead.
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 09:49 PM
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8. Best choice so far.
Slow and painful. Good choice for someone who thinks this was ok.
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fortyfeetunder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 10:04 PM
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9. Certainly don't need a death penalty!
Just like you said, child abusers and pedophiles don't last long in prison. They are hated more than murderers.
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smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 10:07 PM
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11. Seriously, does anyone know what the hell is going on in Florida?
Why are so many of these sickos? Is this just a coincidence or is there some reason they gravitate toward FL?
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Randi_Listener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 12:15 AM
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23. Every degenerate, fuck up, and douchebag in the country does a short stint
In sunny FLA.

Since it's wide open down here, they tend to fuck the rest of us up on occasion.
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WhiteTara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 11:22 PM
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15. maximum security is Pelican Bay 
there he is in solitary in a concrete room 24 hours a day. 
Maybe he could think about what he is.
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frustrated_lefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 01:51 AM
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27. Florida is just
the refuge of texan moms.
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 09:28 PM
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5. In college during the 1970's I opposed the death penalty.....
but cases like this, over and over and over again during the last 30 years have made me rethink my position. Death by injection is way too easy....asphixiation/live burial would be more appropriate.
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oppositionmember Donating Member (147 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 09:35 PM
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7. Is impaling a choice?
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Charon Donating Member (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 07:41 AM
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31. Choice
would vote for the old English sentence for Treason.
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Boo Boo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 10:05 PM
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10. They think the girl was still
Edited on Wed Apr-20-05 10:07 PM by Boo Boo
alive when the police came to the house, but they didn't know that a registered sex offender was living in the house. I think when the police walk a neighborhood after an abduction like this they should take a dog with them.

I also think that sex offenders should be tracked by billing. Even though this guy moved without reporting as required, I doubt that he could have kept his location secret if his financial transactions were tracked. He could have been busted automatically for violating his parole.
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vickie Donating Member (663 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 10:17 PM
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12. What a sick, deparaved monster. He deserves torture at the
hands of his fellow inmates.
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quaoar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 10:19 PM
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13. This guy is a waste of oxygen
Put a gun to the back of his head and put him out of his misery.
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Gemini Cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 11:34 PM
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19. Better yet let her parents put a gun to his other head
and slowly work it up his body.
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RPM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 11:06 PM
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14. oh joy - what do you think "Jessica's Law" will bring us.
If i had my way, there'd never be another law named after a person. the emotionally charged lawmaking is the worst kind.
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tallahasseedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 11:27 PM
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16. OMG.
This is horrible. I cant imagine the terror that precious little girl must have gone through. I hope on some level that purple dolphin brought her some amount of comfort.

As for that sick creep who did this to her. Let the Dad have at him, with no reprecussions whatsoever.
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lebkuchen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 11:28 PM
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17. Life in America
or what's left of it.
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PartyPooper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 11:31 PM
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18. Send him to Iraq to fight Junior's war.
I'd bet he would jump at the opportunity to be a mercenary in lieu of prison.
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SKKY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 12:05 AM
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20. He should fry, and I wouldn't mind if they did it nice and slow.
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 12:06 AM
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21. Hang, draw, and quarter.
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 12:15 AM
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22. if a person
is going to commit then admit such a crime then they've obviously passed into a category of "wild animal" status having completely given in to the beast within and they need to be put down. I don't doubt that a lot of pedophiles are born, not made, and in theory they can't be blamed for their urges but there is still a line a man chooses to cross or not cross from human to animal and I don't think there's any rehabilitation for them once they do.
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entanglement Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 01:31 AM
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25. Speechless n/t
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frustrated_lefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 01:49 AM
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26. Curious
The report claims the child may have been alive in the Couey's home, suggesting the presence of a wife/partner? Yet everyone replies like it was a sole individual who was at fault.

Whatever. Anyone who harms a child like that, imho, deserves a rapid death, the same you would provide a faithful, but rabid, dog.
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 06:22 AM
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30. He was at his sister's house
And other people lived there. I'm sure they knew all about it. They even paid his bus ticket so he could escape, then lied to the cops. They are as guilty as if they themselves did it, IMO. Under Florida law, they can't really be charged with anyone. "Jessica's Law" actually changed that part of the Law. Florida government sucks, but I think they did something right here.
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AnneD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 05:23 AM
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28. There truly are...
some crimes that are beyond the pale, and this is it. First and formost, as a parent, I want my child back alive. So I think punishment for assualt of a child should be up to life in prison no parole (depending on the severity of assualt). A case like this (ait tight) should be automatic death penality. I would want to do everything to insure my child comes back alive. We can deal with the psychological problems later.
Recivitism in this population is so high and therefore stricter measures must be enforce to protect the general population.
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 06:20 AM
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29. What got me was the stuffed dolphin
The one her Dad won for at at a fair a little while before she was abducted. The one she slept with. The one missing from the house. The one the Police found in her bound arms when they discovered her body. Did Jessica hold that little stuffed dolphin close to her as she suffocated to death in the Earth, thinking of her Daddy? Wondering is he would find her and save her? I cried when I read this last night.

I am against the death penalty, but I would like to kill this fucking scum right now. God, sometimes I am so glad I don't have kids. This breaks my heart just reading about a stranger's child.
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indie_voter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 11:32 AM
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35. omg, your post has me in tears
I have kids, a son and a daughter, both under 5.

The thought of anybody doing such a thing to my precious babies is beyond bearing.

That poor poor child. Horrific.


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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 07:52 AM
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33. Sorry, but I can't find my scorecard
This one is the nine-year old--not the 13-year old who was found in the lake, right?

:shrug:
rocknation
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ernstbass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 12:03 PM
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40. Why didn't the bloodhounds find her?
I simply don't understand
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Xithras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-05 12:17 PM
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41. My daughter is that age.
I just can't comprehend what her parents must be going through right now. If it were my daughter, I'd probably be pulling an Ellie Nesler right about now. No punishment that the state can legally mete out is cruel enough for this guy :grr:
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