When Does Society Say Enough!

Inside the city limits of a neighboring town, there resides a young man who just recently was released from prison for gross sexual imposition involving a minor. After 1 month of life back at home with Mom and Dad he was taken into custody recently after an attempted rape of a retarded woman who stayed in an “assisted living” home. They met in their daily walkabouts though the small city.

The young man, aged 22 yrs old, was on probation for a previous sexual charge in a situation with a young Jr. High School student, and prior to that had been in boys reform school for aggressive criminal acts, including starting a local home on fire. He is no stranger to violence and other criminal activity. He is also alcoholic when able to get on probation and indulge in drinking again.

In this most recent assault, he had befriended a young retarded woman. They became fast friends and took late evening strolls to the local park and could be seen walking together in the late evening holding hands, walking along the road. On the night of the attempted rape and felonious assault, they had walked to a lonely spot at the back of a municipal parking lot. When he made his move for sexual relations, the girl resisted, and being drunk, the young man became enraged, taking a large stone from the edge of the parking lot and smashed her in the head several times.

The assault was witnessed by several residents in their yards and passing the parking lot on the sidewalk, who called 911 on their home and mobile phones. Eyewitness accounts say that the police arrived, then an ambulance arrived almost immediately on their heels. The police talked him into laying down with his hands behind his back, but when the officer attempted to cuff him, he went ballistic and started to fight the officer on the ground. Seeing his partner struggling brought up another officer quickly who sprayed his face with pepper spray to blind him. The man finally was cuffed and howling from the pepper spray, but still full of fight. When the officers tried to get him into the cruiser he made a well timed dash for freedom, but didn’t get 5 yds when one of the officers caught him by the shirt near his shoulder and in one swift move, unsheathed his telescopic steel baton, and gave him one quick stroke in the hamstring area of the leg and down he went for keeps. He was quickly bound at the feet with a “twisty tie” restraint and physically loaded into the cruiser.

The young woman was in a coma for several days, but luckily she came out of it and seems to have recuperated from the physical assault. The emotional shock may last a lifetime. This young man is by my count, in for life (three strikes and you’re out state) after this most recent assault. If not then he should be, or in another year or two he’ll be dumped back into our community again and the majority of the townsfolk will have never heard about him or forgot. He will hurt another woman I’m afraid, he seems compelled to destroy material objects and assault the weak and mentally incompetent. When will enough be enough for this man and many other anti-social types that the law prosecutes but also releases, sometimes without prior warning to neighbors (as a sexual predator). He should stay where he is and let the peace loving citizens of the city forget him forever!