Apr 16
8 year old girl raped… should child rapists be executed?
Two little girls… both 8 years old. Two brutal rapes.
In Louisiana…
Patrick Kennedy, 43, is on death row in Louisiana for the rape of his 8-year-old stepdaughter.
In addition to severe emotional trauma, “the attack caused internal injuries and bleeding to the child, requiring extensive surgery,” Louisiana prosecutors said.
In 2003, he was sentenced to die. If he is executed, he will be the first convicted rapist in 44 years to be executed in a case in which the victim was not killed. In the 70s, the US Supreme court banned capital punishment for rape and any other crime except murder. But, Louisiana later passed a law allowing execution for sexual violation of a child under 12.
So, the battle in court is… should he die? Or shouldn’t he?
In Yemeni…
… parents can arrange marriages for children under 15. The only stipulation of the law is that the husband must wait until the girl starts puberty before he is allowed to consummate the marriage.
Little Nojud’s father and mother forced her to sign a marriage contract to a 30 year old man. She was told that she would live with her parents until she was 18, so she signed. One week later, they sent her to live with her husband.
Her father said he “married her off” because he was afraid she would be kidnapped, like her two older sisters were.
For two months, the 8 year old’s child’s 30-year-old husband beat and raped her.
“I used to run from room to room to escape from him. But he would catch up with me, beat me and then would use me,” the girl said, her tiny frame swallowed in an oversized robe and headscarf…
In early April, little Nojud sought out a judge on her own and asked for a divorce. The judge, Mohammed al-Qady, sympathized with the little girl and terminated the marriage because she had not yet reached puberty.
The girl’s family was ordered to pay $US250 as “compensation” to her ex-husband. Her ex-husband will not be charged because Yemeni law does not recognize rape as a crime in marriage. It also doesn’t provide for punishment if a marriage is consummated before a child-wife reaches puberty.
The little girl’s lawyer said she would make sure Nojud got an education. And the little girl? She has no desire to see her father and will live with a maternal uncle.
“I am happy that I am divorced now. I will be able to go back to school,”
More reading if you’re interested….
[should Louisiana child rapist be executed? story here.]
[8 year old files for divorce afer rape. and more here ]
Where does one even start?
… Should child rapists be executed?
… Should the man in Louisiana be executed for raping his 8 year old stepdaughter?
… What about the ex-husband in Yemen who walked away with US $250 in his pocket for the same crime?
… Is it right for one man to die while another profits for the same crime?
… Are they the same crime? Why or why not?
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yes. yes. yes. yes. yes. yes.
this child required extensive surgery for internal injuries as a result of this rape.
but regardless — the child will suffer all her days. even those of us (and i include me as a child victim of rape) who remain survive do NOT survive unscathed.
there is no reason for this to happen.
to allow any man to live who commits such an act is to give dispensation for him to do it again sometime in the future.
the answer is yes.
The child lived. Eye for an eye, not life for an eye. Put him in jail until the end of time, sure, but this was not a capital crime.
The comparison between the American criminal system and the Yemeni marraige system is, of course, apples and oranges. Actually more like apples and rocks. They just aren’t the same, and while both can be discussed on the basis of their flaws and merits alone, they aren’t comparable.
lol, Ryan. Yes, the legal systems in America vs Yemeni are apples and rocks. That’s a good one.
And yet… the act is the same. An 8 year old girl was raped against her will in both cases. That’s kind of what I was getting at… does having different “laws” make the act any less horrible?
Thanks for posting your thoughts! I do love a good discussion and to hear what other people think. It’s the best way to stretch one’s own mind.
No-one should ever be executed.
The fact that someone makes a bad decitions and commits a horrible crime does not give others the right to take their life.
I understand you would want to put someone like that behind bars for the rest of his life. As to protect society against their actions, but execution is never the answer.
There have been many cases of executed people that were proven innocent afterwards. That is just horrible. If these people had been locked up, in stead of executed, you could have released them and payed them a compensation for the time spent in prison. Execution is never the answer, this is not the middle ages!
Yes, exucute him.
Ryan - Unless you’ve had this happen to you and know the lifelong consequenses victims live with, you can’t say it isn’t a capital crime. Louisiana, to thier credit, has made the crime a capital one. You are quoting from the same Bible that under the laws of Moses called for such people who commit such crimes to be stoned to death. So taking a Bible quote out of context isn’t helpful to the discussion.
Putting them behind bars does not work. There will always be the chance of some so-called do-gooder ‘pardoning’ them or releasing them for whatever reason. Anyone capable of such a crime needs to be executed for the safety of the rest of society. There are many cases of convicts escaping or being released only to commit another such atrocious crime.
And just because one barbaric, 3rd-world country allows such barbarism to go unpunished or even rewarded has no bearing on what a civilized country decides to do.
I wish I could have personally executed the man who raped me as a young child.
Laura, no child should have to go through that and I’m so sorry someone did that to you.
Ofcourse this man should be executed, and not by lethal injection but a bullet to the head . This man has been proven guilty by dna. DNA can not be argued with. A gun, some bullets and cleaning staff would be much cheaper than housing, feeding, and proving medical care and guards to ensure they do not escape or are hurt for a man who will contribute anything to society but heartache and sevre trauma to the children he comes in contact with.
Also why are we as larger more powerful countries forcing these small third world countries to stop these inhumane laws that promote pedophilia. Why do we not cut off aid to these countries until these laws are abolished.
Also I beleive anyone who does not beleive these people should die should be forced to watch those horrid videos that these perverts make and then make their desicion.
These children should be entiled to a free eductaion, cunsling, a home with suitable parents. It is pethtic that in my province Ontario the attacker seems to have more rights than victim. It seems the province does more to protect the criminal rather than the victim or in many cases victims.
defintaly be forced*
ha sorry about the error
Yumpin Yemeni!
Actually, I like to pick the guy up by the ankles and beat that 30 year old Yemeni “husband” to death with him. That way, they’d both be dead and there would be no murder weapon.
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I am on the “cleaner” side of this argument and choose not to have him executed. Execution is a violation of commandment #5. I love how all of the woman are chanting “execute that bastard!” while the men choose not to execute him. In my opinion woman have it hard, being looked at like eye candy is one thing, but being a child and looked at that way is just wrong.
If this guy really wanted some girl to have sex with he should have went clubbing or something. There are lots of eager drunk girls willing to have sex at clubs, he should try this sometime instead of just raping young girls. Life in jail ought to serve him right.
I found this website while looking for a rape I heard about in Louisiana, and it isn’t the rape by Kennedy. I was sexually abused by a door to door salesman when I was 12, and he also assaulted a neighbor up the street who was 14. We called the police, and that was the end of the story… they took him away. Now, 15 years later a prosecutor from Louisiana is calling me and asking me my story because the same man has raped a SIX year old girl in Louisiana. When I read you could get death in that state, well, I felt really glad. It didn’t have to get to this point. He should have been locked up for life already, especially because his track record was bigger than my incident. Execution is a violation of commandment # 5? What about the total violation of these small girls? PEDOPHILIA DOESN’T GO AWAY, people that seek out children don’t just stop because they go to jail for 20 years. Our system will not keep half these type of men in jail for as long as they “ought” to be there. So, in cases where the brutality is so severe, I say good riddens. I don’t really want my tax money sustaining his life in jail.
As far as yemen, you can’t compare the two. They are both awful, but again, apples and rocks.
Why would people want him executed? That is just too easy for a person convicted of such a heinous crime. He should be placed in maximum security prison with hardened criminals, and make his crim public to all the other inmates. That way people will rape him and probably kill him, because even inmates have a sense of moral duty when it comes to children.
Sure, we can have him sit comfotably in solitary confinement waiting death…or
He could be publicly abused and possible killed while living with the other prisoners.
Which fits best?
I think the man in Yemen needs his family jewels cut off however, it is common in male dominated religious nations to reward men for such crimes. Well at least the judge did the right thing and let the poor girl go. Now in america we do not need to compare with other countries. So yes kill all child rapists as they are not worth the air they breath.
He should have been happy with the death sentence. I dunno what they’re going to do with him now, but I’m pushing for his entry into the general population (at which point, the general population will enter him). Would that be enough of an eye-for an eye should he require reconstructive surgery afterwards?
diz is sick what kinda country is diz shes just 8 n she gets married? n da guy raped n beat her diz is a pedofiles dream diz a sick ass countrry
Seeing as I know victims of rape, and seeing as personally, if I EVER found the person that raped any one of them, I’d gladly go to jail for murdering them. They kill the person they rape, not physically, but mentally and emotionally. There’s no use for people like this in society, no need to give them 3 meals a day, air conditioning, heating, and cable TV in prison.
well, the question that comes to my mind is, ‘will the rapists stop if a law says that they will be sentenced to death?’ Let us put on the shoes of the 8 yr old yemeni girl, how would we feel, being married off to a 30 yr old man? Both the husband and parents of that poor child are sick in their minds to do such a thing, in the US and most other countries, if not all would not accept such.
It’s hard not to get our emotions involved, I am an ex cop, and it hurt me so much attending to scenes where women and children were raped, by their husbands, fathers, step fathers, drug addicted brothers, uncles, family friends, it’s amaizing how people trusted are the ones most committing these horrible crimes. God only knows how much I’ve wanted to shoot these men that rape. But we don’t have the death penalty from the island that i come from, but if we did, alot of these rapists would stop.
How a man can look at a young girl and get sexually aroused and acts on his feelings and rapes the child should be put to death just as if he has committed murder. To prove murder, you need to prove two things, actus rea and mens rea, ie intention and action, therefore, in rape the same applies, so the sentencing should be the same too.
Clearly, it is time for the weak and modern spineless men to just shut up and step aside. As a woman, I say mandatory hanging for this horrific act. Too costly to others who await his barbaric behavior, too costly in permanent psychologic injury to this innocent little 8 -year-old girl, and too costly for those who do obey the laws and have good manners. The best way to end this kind of intolerable behavior is to be strong enough to impose the sentence of mandatory hanging in public. Watch and witness whether or not this is a deterrent.
Okay Smakkie, nobody deserves to die!!! A person doesnt need to be shot in mid day while going shopping with their infant child or do they? A person who wants to lather themselves with bubbles at night after their hard day at work have to worry about being burgalurized then shot in the head? Your brain is not working!!! the death penalty is here for a reason, so you understand that thousands of sick people are waiting their life sentence and your taxes go to them, many of which that have killed, raped, robbed and so forth. Do you have a child? Well I do, I have two and a person that has been raped would ****** kill someone that came close to my kids!!!! No one deserves to live if they have commited anytime of crime!
My family member who is 8 was kidnapped and raped by a man, who is now pleading incompetent and may walk free because he suffers from severe depression, and the stress of the courts is upsetting him…NO IM NOT KIDDING!!!!!! What the h*** is wrong with this judicial sytem? A baby was RAPED, what part do you people not understand about that? Please take a moment to seeNews on 6 Tulsa Forum
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For those of you who think that it is immoral to kill someone for there crime such as in this case of rape then the only alternative would be to castrate the offender , we need tougher laws this kind of thing goes on more then we need its quite inexcusable our laws are much to weak criminals thinks it is ok to do these things execution isn’t what it use to be it doesn’t strike fear into there minds because they no they will only sit on deathrow for an eternity . So does he deserve execution ? I say no , I say castrate him set him as an example to others that if you decide to rape you will be castrated no and’s , if’s or but’s about it . The prisons are overflowing it’s time for tougher laws .
Of course he should be executed!! An 8 year old??? That is terrible. Any sick man who gets joy from raping his 8-year-old so much she bled and needed surgery should definitely be executed. Poor little girl. He should be tortured and killed for this crime. And besides, why would it not be a crime to rape someone even if you are married? It is still a crime!!!!!!!!!
by reaing the story and knowing she was injured internally seems this son of a hore wasn’t not even a pedophile, pedophiles doesn’t hurt that way the children, this hassole is a sick bastard, a casual criminal, he deserves the death sentence, because just by imaginating that he left her internally damaged and she needed surgery he didn’t cared about her pain screams in the act, thats why i agree he deserves death sentence but first bend each of his fingers the opposite way and peel off his skin then wash his body with acid.
i say yes, kill the fuck who raped the girl, so what if he is her step dad, when he started to rape her he stopped being her dad, as for the father of the other girl he should die..she was just a kid
Yes. All rapist should be excuted! No matter what age they raped or in what part of the world.
“If you cause one of these little ones who trust in me to sin, it would be better for you to have a large millstone tied around your neck and be drowned at the depths of the sea.” Matthew 6:18
I have seen over and over again what sexual abuse does to children. They can no longer be children. They are robbed of their childhood by these sexual predators. Sexual abuse causes these children to hate themselves and be depressed. These kids think they are junk; they aren’t junk. Some of these kids are even suicidal because of being raped by a grown man 3 times their size. Some kids kill themselves. A lot of victims of rape get on drugs or start drinking. These rape survivors are effected for the rest of their lives and will never be the same.
This 8 year old girl says that she is glad she got a divorce. She’s eight!!!! Does that matter to anyone? This man robbed that little girl of her childhood; she should be climbing trees and playing with other children, but instead she was raped and beaten everyday by a 30 year old man. The other girl was raped by her step-father, someone who she is supposed to trust. He has forsaken that trust by taking away one of the most sacred things away from her.
Some men sit at home on their computers looking at porn sites and coming up with different ways to sexually abuse and hurt children. Men who have raped little kids have used sex objects and different torture tools to hurt these little children. They HATE these beautiful creations of God!!
So, should these men die? God kills people who sin. God HATES these beautiful and wonderful children to be hurt. He will destroy these men for they will burn in Hell. I say, yes they should die. Die so they can be meet Satan much sooner and be tortured for all of eternity. If there is a reason to have the death penalty, this is one of them. But remember, no matter what happens to these men, these children will never be the same because these men hurt them in a way that can only be healed by God.
I am think that raping a child or anybody is a horrible crime. Should you get life in jail, no. I think child rapes should get up to 30yrs. Adult rapes depend 5 - 10 yrs. A lot of so called rapes are not rapes at all. Just somebody changing their mind afterwards. People are locked up for a long time due to false rape allegations. Who do you believe, it impossible to know if a girl is raped without physical injures. How do you not know she not into rough sex? Or not properly lubricated. This not to diminish rapes, but why are all these women like on a crusade. The men who raped them did rape all of them together. Rape is a individual crime, individual punishment should be required. Hey I don’t think you can quantify killing someone emotionally. What the hell does that mean. The human mind is resilient and these ladies your life is not over because somebody raped you. You are alive. Is it horrible yes, it not the worst to ever happen to anybody. Grow up. People confuse pedophilia for any crime that involves minors. It is not true. The people who are predators who are roaming the streets for children is not a prevalent as the media has led you to believe. Watch your children , know who is interacting with your children. Teach them no body has the right to touch them inappropriately. Some people made mistakes, some people have urges. But hey that does mean they have to keep offending. No body should have to pay for a crime forever.
I am think that raping a child or anybody is a horrible crime. Should you get life in jail, no. I think child rapes should get up to 30yrs. Adult rapes depend 5 - 10 yrs. A lot of so called rapes are not rapes at all. Just somebody changing their mind after wards. People are locked up for a long time due to false rape allegations. Who do you believe, it impossible to know if a girl is raped without physical injures. How do you not know she not into rough sex? Or not properly lubricated. This not to diminish rapes, but why are all these women like on a crusade. The men who raped them didnot rape all of them together. Rape is a individual crime, individual punishment should be required. Hey I don’t think you can quantify killing someone emotionally. What the hell does that mean. The human mind is resilient and these ladies your life is not over because somebody raped you. You are alive. Is it horrible yes, it not the worst to ever happen to anybody. Grow up. People confuse pedophilia for any crime that involves minors. It is not true. The people who are predators who are roaming the streets for children is not a prevalent as the media has led you to believe. Watch your children , know who is interacting with your children. Teach them no body has the right to touch them inappropriately. Some people made mistakes, some people have urges. But hey that doesn’t mean they have to keep offending. No body should have to pay for a crime forever.
I believe that anybody who rapes a child under the age of consent with bodily harm should be put to death. Just for the fact that this country doesn’t have punishment that would cause them bodily harm. If you don’t like the death penalty then how about giving each one their own personal tattoo that says how much they like kids and put them in general population. Then maybe they can see how it feels to be violated against their will.