Yeah, I’m not holding my breath. In fact, if you don’t mind, I think I’ll take a seat while I wait as I am afraid it might be a while.
As far as I know, his being American doesn’t matter. They still have to start extradition proceedings. Doesn’t matter what the crime is, if someone’s in a country legally (be they a citizen or a foreign national) you can’t just demand they be handed over.
Look at Ronnie Briggs (great train robber), he lived in Brazil for years but because there was no extradition treaty the British police couldn’t (legally) touch him.
WV_Woman - If I didn’t know better (family in Randolph County and Morgantown), I would believe some of the stereotypes about people from WV reading stuff like this.
Do you seriously imagine that a parent whose child is molested or in danger of molestation on one side of the Atlantic feels any differently than a parent on the other side? And do you imagine lawmakers are not parents and have no voters who are parents, and do not “make a big deal of [child molestation]”?
Sentencing regimes vary from one place to another. It may well be that sentencing is generally lighter on average in Europe than in the US. I don’t think you can say much more than that.
. It may well be that sentencing is generally lighter on average in Europe than in the US. I don’t think you can say much more than that.
That is what I meant, Hemlock.
No, I did not mean that parents in Europe don’t get upset when their kid is molested. Sheesh!
Sheesh indeed. Here’s what you said:
So, how do you know it for a fact? Where did you get this “fact”? Care to share? Or would you prefer to retract?
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In Europe crime is no big deal. Kids get molested all the time but we figure, since they’re kids and society hasn’t invested much time and money in them yet, what’s the point of prosecuting productive otherwise well intending members of society for a bunch of no-good brats?
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VW_Woman, what can I say? If you think more lenient sentencing geared at rehabilitation is due to a more careless society where crime is “no big deal”, you’re about as daft as a donkey. The argument goes like this FYI: rehabilitation has a very low success rate and deterrence through harsher punishment is a better measure for dealing with crime. And not like this: stuff those no good mother fuckers in prison, sodomize them good and hard a few times and throw away the key 'cause they deserve it!
WV_Woman…
I know you to be made of asbestos, so I don’t expect you take this to heart. I just need to register my absolute contempt and express my deep indignation on behalf of me and all my people. Hence:
On the behalf of his Royal Majesty Carolus XVI Gustavus and all the people of the Kingdom of Sweden we kindly request that you go molest yourself in some unspeakable fashion of your choice, upon which you may apologize.
Oh and His Majesty informs me that he will not entertain requests for tours of the palace in the unexpected case of your visiting the nation, he explicitly adds that invitations to afternoon tea shall not be forthcoming. Consider yourself persona non grata in all of Sweden and her sister nations Norway, Switzerland the fifteen states of the EU, the ten applicant states and any of the other 48 states on the continent.
Sparc
You don’t know the worst of it.
Her ein the United States, it’s often safer, from a criminal liability standpoint, to molest your own children rather than children outside your family.
There are three factors that make this so: social services, which get involved to remove the children to a foster home, continue their involvement with a goal to “heal and reunite” the family. Prosecutors faced with these crimes often choose to charge them as incest, rather than criminal sexual assault; the result is often that criminal penalities are much less. Finally, spouses and other family members often pressure victims to recant or minimize the accusations, because they don’t want the family broken up or the primary wage-earner lost.
In this case, with viedo evidence and the public eye in it, I hope that these factors won’t come into play. But you would be both surprised and sickened if you knew how often this sort of thing happens without headlines.
- Rick
WV_Woman…
I know you to be made of asbestos, so I don’t expect you take this to heart. I just need to register my absolute contempt and express my deep indignation on behalf of me and all my people. Hence:
On the behalf of his Royal Majesty Carolus XVI Gustavus and all the people of the Kingdom of Sweden we kindly request that you go molest yourself in some unspeakable fashion of your choice, upon which you may apologize.
Oh and His Majesty informs me that he will not entertain requests for tours of the palace in the unexpected case of your visiting the nation, he explicitly adds that invitations to afternoon tea shall not be forthcoming. Consider yourself persona non grata in all of Sweden and her sister nations Norway, Switzerland the fifteen states of the EU, the ten applicant states and any of the other 48 states on the continent.
Sparc
Sorry about that. I pressed the back button on my browser. I’m an idiot.
This line sickened me the most:
"In one instance, a man swapped his own children with another pedophile to be abused, Bonner alleged. "
After conviction the whole lot of the pedarist bastards should be killed. The electric chair would be a good way. Their punishment should be fearful – and it should hurt. :mad:
Ooh ooh! Can we make her persona non grata in the United States, too?
(Apologies if this is double-posted.)
DesertGeezer, just let them mingle with the rest of the prisoners - They know how to deal with nonces (British slang) quite well.