Penalty For Vigilante Justice. Where Would You Be?

[twyacht]

We all will have very little sympathy for a Father beating his son's "alleged" molester with a previous molestation  record. However, the suspect is now in a coma and may not survive, while the Dad has been arrested and sits in jail.

http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/MI134868/

DAVIE, Fla. (WSVN) -- Police have arrested two men after they attacked a man who fondled a 3-year-old boy.

According to Davie Police, 37-year-old Luke Petruschke spent the night at the residence of Manuel Vega in the 5100 Block of Davie Road after visiting with the family. At about 10:50 a.m. Friday, as Petruschke was preparing to leave in his silver Chevy Cobalt, Vega's 3-year-old son told his parents that Petruschke had fondled him during the night.

Vega and a neighbor, Krish Carter, confronted Petruschke in his vehicle and used pieces of concrete blocks and other debris found nearby to force their way into Petruschke's vehicle. After removing Petruschke from the vehicle, Vega and Carter reportedly struck Petruschke with their hands and feet numerous times.

Davie Police, responded to the report of the child being fondled and encountered Petruschke nearby, who had been severely beaten. Petruschke was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood and is in the Intensive Care Unit. "We all understand that people get emotional, but there's a point where your behavior has to conform to the law. These people apparently went beyond that point, they became judge, jury and issued their own punishment," said Sergeant Greg Gasse.

Vega's family and friends said he loved the little boy and he reacted in the way any father would to protect their child. "I know he shouldn't't have done this. I understand where he was coming from, you know, I wasn't here, I'm sorry I wasn't here. Hopefully if I was here this would have never even happened, but there's nothing I can do now I'm just praying," said the Child's Grandmother.

"Any father would react this way. Yes he took the law into his own hands, but he was here and when he found out what happened he just reacted, in a bad way, but any parent would have done it. It's too much of this going on," said the Child's Godmother.

Vega and Carter were arrested and charged with Attempted Felony Murder.

Petruschke is facing charges for Lewd and Lascivious Molestation on the three year old.

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Remember the child is 3 years old.

The sad part is this 3 year old boy, has no father for the time being, and if the suspect dies, will face manslaughter or some other charge that will keep him away from son even longer.

Would it be worth it?

[Hazcat]

I can't say it was right but I would have probably done the same thing.

[fightingquaker13]

I could only justify it if the guy was obviously guilty and was going to walk on a technicality. Even then, what's more important, doing justice/getting revenge or being there to raise your boy? The answer to me is pretty obvious.
Beyond that, the cops now can't investigate the guy. Did he have other victims? (probably) Did he have an accomplice? (maybe) Was he making kiddy porn? Now we'll never know. I've got no sympathy for the perp, but it just seems to me that all this did is victimize the kid twice and maybe let someon or someones go free. I'd say it was a bad move.
FQ13

[Pathfinder]

I'm surprised the perp survived.

We can all hope for the jury to toss this case on its ear.

[Big Frank]

I try to avoid at all cost going to prison and being someone's b*tch.

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[tombogan03884]

"with a previous molestation  record. "

 Think this dirt bag will ever touch another little boy ?
Just because it isn't "legal" doesn't mean it was wrong. Legal coddling of perverts is why they are so prevelant today. With any kind of decent lawyer Daddy will walk whether the scumbag dies or not.

[Johnny Bravo]

The 2 men reacted in the heat of the moment. It's easy to sit back and say what we would do. This man was defending his kid. HIS KID!! I hope it never goes to trial. Ther is alot more info I would like to hear. Why was this guy at their house and around the child etc.? We need more info but on the surface it sounds like it's time to GET A Rope!!

[Rob10ring]

Think this dirt bag will ever touch another little boy ?
Just because it isn't "legal" doesn't mean it was wrong. Legal coddling of perverts is why they are so prevelant today. With any kind of decent lawyer Daddy will walk whether the scumbag dies or not.

Well, the statistics show that he will almost assuredly molest another child. And any molester who dies, makes a child somewhere safer.

The law doesn't allow a father to harm or kill one who molests his child, but maybe it should. We have castle doctrine and make my day laws in a lot of states, maybe it's time for an "Eye for an Eye" law. As in, the Sally Field movie, where she took out a molester, played by Kiefer Sutherland. At any rate, no molester should EVER be allowed back into society. They should either get life, or death.

I would always choose being there to support my children in the future, over leaving their lives for revenge. Years ago, there was a case where a local girl was molested in the park, there were posters with sketches posted all over the county. They never caught the guy and the little girl's father could never deal with the terrible attack that his angel had suffered. A few years later, he blew in brains out in the kitchen with a .223 rifle, in front of his family. Now he's not there to protect or support, and his little girl may be growing up, blaming herself for daddy's death. We know it's not her fault and I hope she knows, but he should be the one to put an arm around her and let her know that. The molester is sill out there and he's probably done more horrible things.

[PegLeg45]

"with a previous molestation  record. "

 Think this dirt bag will ever touch another little boy ?
Just because it isn't "legal" doesn't mean it was wrong. Legal coddling of perverts is why they are so prevelant today. With any kind of decent lawyer Daddy will walk whether the scumbag dies or not.

The 2 men reacted in the heat of the moment. It's easy to sit back and say what we would do. This man was defending his kid. HIS KID!! I hope it never goes to trial. Ther is alot more info I would like to hear. Why was this guy at their house and around the child etc.? We need more info but on the surface it sounds like it's time to GET A Rope!!

+1

I'm glad my kids are grown.....don't know what I would do in this situation......these perverts make my blood boil.....

I've actually been stewing on this very subject since the 5:00 local news aired a story about one of these SOB's that tried to lure two elementary school boys into his van on school property today just two counties over from us. I caught the story just before leaving to go to an auction and couldn't concentrate while there.

People that harm kids really get me riled up inside.   



Sex offender victims speak out
By Tayleigh Davis - bio | email

ALBANY, GA (WALB) - Northsideside school police cought sex offender Kenneth Kellam after he tried to entice two boys into his van. Monday, they helped police capture the man before any kids got hurt.
The mother, Diane McCoy, was worried about her sons safety after learning a suspicious man approached them after school last week. Monday afternoon, she followed her boys as they walked home. She says that's when the man came after the brothers again.
Diane McCoy's two boys, 10-year-old Ricky Benyard and 9-year-old Rickey McCoy were crossing Palmyra Road on their way home from Northside Elementary School Monday afternoon when they say 36-year-old Kenneth Kellam approached them.
"He was waiting in the bushes waiting for us to come out of school, said Rickey Benyard."
"My baby yelled out mom there goes the man," McCoy said. "I rushed up to him and I said what are you doing messing with my children."
McCoy was nearby watching out for Kellam because she had been warned by a neighbor and her sons that he had been watching them. She says he rubbed her two boys on the shoulder and touched them on their arms last week-and then told the boys not to tell their mom.
"He was going to show us three pictures of boys that sold drugs,"the sons said.
They say Kellam also tried to convince the brothers to get into his van, but they knew better.
"I wasn't going to get in that van," the boys said. "He said not to tell your momma what I did, but I told her anyways."
"It's nasty to see a man prey on little boys then to see he was charged for child molestation in another state," McCoy said.
In 2003, Kellam was convicted of false imprisonment in Florida for trying to force two 13-year-old boys into his van. He recently moved to Albany but did not register as a sex offender.
McCoy is greatful so many people are concerned about the safety of her sons.
"I thank my neighbors and the school for cooperating so much," she said. "I really had a lot of help today."
And her two boys learned an important lesson not to speak to strangers, which is a big reason they're back at home with their mom.
The mom says even though she's still shaken up, she's doing better and she's just glad to have her two sons back in her arms.
School officials at Northside say no other kids were victims of the sex offender as far as they know. Kenneth Kellam will have his first court appearance Tuesday morning at the Dougherty County jail.

http://www.walb.com/global/story.asp?s=11388194

[1911 Junkie]

There wouldn't be a body to be found.