Liz
I am not a chemist and this is not my 1st rodeo
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Liz said:
This guy is a known sex offender. How do we know he accepted no as an answer??? Obviously something made this kid snap. I know if a man came up and tried to assault/rape me, he'd be shot right where he wouldn't be able to use it again and if it killed him, so be it!! Doesn't mean I'd kill someone who tried to "initiate" sex with me and accepted a no. We don't know what this kid has been through. I'm sure he needs some serious help, but jail??? Uh uh....KatherineQ said:Amraan - I understand what you are saying, but I keep thinking of my own son.
If a 50 year old man came on to him, I believe firmly in my heart he would rebuff the man, and walk out, and leave, and that would be that, and hopefully he would tell us. But maybe he'd be too embarrassed to admit it and would instead never return to that man's house. I would be mortified if my son got a gun and killed a man who initiated an interest in sex and then backed off when he was rejected. I don't want a boy like that - who would kill someone over a misunderstood homosexual advance. I wouldn't ever trust a boy like that ever ever again, and would fear he would kill other people over embarrassing misunderstandings. I'm not the least bit sad this boy is charged with second degree murder, and a jury can give this a really close look and decide what is right.
My 16 year old can drive, and is often out in the world by himself. If a man comes on to him, and my son rebuffs the advance, and the man takes no for an answer, I think murder is out of the question as a response.
The boy's juvenile history reads like most troubled boys who end up falling prey to fixated pedophiles (which the sex offender clearly was). Too bad the dead guy's probie/p.o. didn't both to do a serch of his hoem for kiddy *advertiser censored*, or he'd be alive in prison right now, not dead at the hands of a teenaged boy.Tranaice said:This guy is a known sex offender. How do we know he accepted no as an answer??? Obviously something made this kid snap. I know if a man came up and tried to assault/rape me, he'd be shot right where he wouldn't be able to use it again and if it killed him, so be it!! Doesn't mean I'd kill someone who tried to "initiate" sex with me and accepted a no. We don't know what this kid has been through. I'm sure he needs some serious help, but jail??? Uh uh....
BillyGoatGruff said:The boy's juvenile history reads like most troubled boys who end up falling prey to fixated pedophiles (which the sex offender clearly was). Too bad the dead guy's probie/p.o. didn't both to do a serch of his hoem for kiddy *advertiser censored*, or he'd be alive in prison right now, not dead at the hands of a teenaged boy.
I suspect that guys like that were sexual abuse victims first, possibly gay later. If your natural orientation is gay, but you associate it with rape/molestation/exploitation, then the negative mental connotations have to be fairly significant.Jeana (DP) said:Perhaps in addition to some sort of chemical abuse problem, he's got a problem accepting his sexuality. I've heard of cases where guys feel ashamed of their actions and just want to do away with the person they were intimate with. Its a shame, but society still isn't where it should be with regards to acceptance.
A Yakima teen-ager who killed a registered sex offender has been sentenced to ten years in prison.
Seventeen-year-old Joshua J. Collett pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter..
Collett received a sentence of less than four years for manslaughter. He also pleaded guilty to an unrelated charge of assault for wounding a man after robbing a taco truck. He was sentenced yesterday to the longer, ten-year term, for the assault.