Superlatives fail me. This man is simply a monster. He put his poor, innocent daughter through the agonies of hell over the course of her short, painful life. I don’t know how someone could do this to a baby.
Of course you’re not a child abuser or molester, Mr. Padilla. Those are terms that apply to humans, and you are not one. You tore up your membership card to mankind when you beat, raped, and stomped your two year old daughter to death. You are only an animal, and I’m not sure why the state didn’t try to do to you what it does to all other animals that kill.
There are times when opposition to the death penalty is really pushed to the limit. This is one of those times. I still think, though, that he will be punished more by a life sentence than by death. Not the least because I suspect he will find himself to be very…popular among the prison population. I’ve often heard that child molesters and abusers are the lowest of the low in prison. Padilla did not get off easy.
I honestly can’t even read stuff like this anymore. I have a 2 Y.O. daughter myself, and the thought, even for a second, of something like this happening to her is more than I can handle.
Like photopat said, my anti-death penalty stance is pushed to the limit on this. If something happens to him in prison, I’ll lose not a wink of sleep over it.
Thank you, Detective Grant, for being able to control yourself during the interview and for then having the strength to testify in court so this despicable man could be taken off the street. You have a horrible job and I appreciate your willingness to perform it so that we don’t have to.
I’m afraid this revolting behaviour DOES make him a human. Human beings are the only species on Earth that can turn around and wilfully abuse and torture their own offspring. Not even chimpanzees, who are about 98% genetically identical to humans and who are known to murder to gain territory, would stoop this low.
The word “inhumane” should be taken out of the dictionary.
One of the reasons I’m against the death penalty is that this creature that walks like a man does not deserve the peace of death. IMO, life imprisonment is a far worse and more appropriate penalty than a quick death and the rest of the grave.
Lots of small animals will eat their babies if the mother isn’t getting adequate nutrition, is dehydrated, or she thinks there is something “wrong” with the baby. Getting eaten alive by your own mum is pretty gruesome, I’d wager. They’re also known to have babies and then just abandon them for no apparent reason, leaving them to starve to death. They will also freely engage in incest and will try to “mate” with non-sexually mature babies.
I think that sort of thing goes on a lot in the animal kingdom.
Now, what this guy did is totally fucked up, but I don’t think the ability to be cruel and torture one’s own offspring is particularly unique to humans. Rather, I would hope that since we have the ability to reason and are capable of doing things like caring for people that will never be able to care for themselves or couldn’t survive on their own, we have evolved past this sort of thing. Humans are the only species we know of capable of making decisions about those sorts of things. And this guy chose to be an inhuman monster when he decided to abuse and kill his little girl.
I agree, he deserves to die. I’m anti-dp but these kinds of situations are hard to dispute. How he got away with a life sentence and not the death penalty here in TX is beyond me, though.
And kudos to that pizza guy for bothering to notice something like that, and then caring enough to go to the trouble to report it.
I went back and looked over the article again, I guess they got him on a plea bargain (?) and never bothered to go to court. If I were the DA I would have never let that one slide, but then again, 3 life sentences undisputed might seem better to them than risking a lesser sentence in a trial. At least they know he’ll be locked up for good. The mother should do jail time, too, IMO. It seems that the abuse was going on for a while before the girl died, and there’s no way the mom couldn’t have known about it.
Had this been a relative of mine, I wouldn’t hesitate a second in hunting down the scumbag and killing him. I think revcenge is as good a motive as anything.
But I don’t thin it’s up to the state/country/government to dole out revenge. The state should provide a lot of things, but revenge is not one of them. This fucker deserves to die, but if I had a personal stake in it, I’d do it myself and face the consequences.
Delegating it to the DA, county and state is wrong. The state doesn’t need to get revenge. Revenge is something personal. And revenge by proxy is just… wrong.
Howsabout we let him decide. If he would rather death, we give him life in prison without parole. If he wants life without parole, we give him death. Seems like we should be considering what is worse for him than for you.
I am pro death penalty, as in this case when it is a clear-cut, unambiguous, totally unrepentant action. (Sure, I’m against it when guilt is not as clear cut (Sacco & Venzetti), you have rotten legal counsel (the infamous sleeping lawyer) and so on).
Here’s the main reason I am for the death penalty though. When someone is sentenced to “life in prison without parole”, how long do they actually serve? Just thinking of a quick example here - remember Leopold and Loeb who killed a young boy back in the 1920’s? They were each sentenced to life in prison for the murder AND 99 years for kidnapping. Loeb was killed in prison in 1936. However, Leopold was paroled in 1958 after 33 years in prison. (Does 33 years = life PLUS 99 years ???)
Another reason for my pro death penalty stance is that quite often these vermin still make the news. A few weeks ago, weren’t the murderers of Matthew Shepard on “20/20” to tell their story? Remember the infamous videotape of Richard Speck & his cellmate that was made by them and eventually made it to the national news? And of course Charles Manson still gets the occassional interview.
Want to make a bet that this alleged human being, Frank Padilla, gets interviewed, gets the occassional mention in the news and even worse - gets paroled?
This man is sick… twisted… disturbed… fuck… .he’s not human.
that is beyond… I don’t think that memory will ever be gone from my mind… its burned itself in there… this guy is sick. I just hope he makes it out of prison somehow, just somehow, so he can really get what he deserves from whoever the fuck realizes who he is. Not death from old age or a heart attack… death from a fucking sharp, rusty, metal object shoved up his ass and twisted sideways.
I’m sorry… this is just the most fucked up thing I’ve read in a VERY long time.
I am not a death penalty opponent, although I do think there are problems when it comes to applying it even-handedly. (But that’s true of other sanctions as well).
If I thought we could fix this person so he really isn’t like this any more, genuine rehabilitation, I would favor that. In cases like this, I don’t think we can, so I would, with some sorrow and with great gravity put him down in the most humane way possible, for the safety of the rest of us.
Mind you, if I’d known the little girl personally, I’d want to saute him live in frying-hot grapeseed oil until his skin fell off, but I don’t advocate that as justice. It’s not, it’s fury.
I’m sure I’ll get roasted for this, but it doesn’t sound like the guy is really evil, just totally delusional. Why would he be so eager to demonstrate what he did to his child? Any truly evil person would try to pass it off as an accident. A truly evil person would definitely not have taken his daughter to the hospital. Perhaps he really didn’t think he was hurting his child all that much? Perhaps his sense of reality is just really fucked up in this regard? Perhaps he thought he was really just punishing her?
I’m not trying to let the guy off the hook here, and he’s obviously committed a monstrous act and deserves to spend all or most of the rest of his life in prison. But this guy is not nearly in the same league as someone like John Wayne Gacy… The death penalty should not even be an issue here, IMO.
I agree. I’m very much anti-death penalty for a whole host of reasons. And while I would prefer our citizenry not to dole out their personal justice, I cannot say that I wouldn’t seek revenge if someone killed a loved one and I knew with absolute certainty who it was.
But don’t kid yourselves. If you’ve ever been to a state or county prison, you’d know that “life in jail” isn’t exactly getting off easy.
Repentance is an act that can take place any time after the act has been committed. Just because he hasn’t repented now doesn’t mean he won’t do so in the future. That’s why I’m against the death penalty, even for this guy: salvation of some sort is still possible, however unlikely.