I don’t generally approve of people taking the law into their own hands like this, but I have to hand it to the parents for their cunning.
I heard both parent were linguists.
I’m sorry. I couldn’t help myself.
“the girl’s father and two of his friends were waiting for him in an alley behind the house. They detained Richards until police could arrive.”
Am I cynical that I half expected them to be charged with kidnapping instead?
Based on the story linked, it will take more to set the daughter on the right course than putting some dude in jail.
I mean, the offender may be in jail, but that girl is not “coming back” to those parents.
I would expect to be arrested were I to do what Dad did.
Shame that their trapping him and holding him for the cops didn’t involve beating the shit out of him with a baseball bat.
Maybe. Maybe not. We have no idea how much he was manipulating her. In a couple of months, with therapy, who knows? But I promise, the chances of them seeing her and her being safe are vastly improved by jailing him, rather than them eloping.
I mean, yes, it may not have 100% fixed every single thing wrong, but it’s still a huge improvement over the alternative.
Why? Restraining someone who is in the process of committing a crime is something citizens do all the time. Maybe they should have called the cops first, but given that it was not clear that he would show I understand them waiting. The father acted with admirable restraint.
The offender is being charged with child rape and attempted kidnapping. The two had met in person on a previous occasion. Probably where the child rape charge originates. It seems like sexual contact had already happened.
Sounds like the parents and friends detained him with a minimum of force and waited for the police. They probably should have informed the police/FBI ahead of time and let them handle it.
But if I were the father of a 15 year old girl who was about to run away with a child rapist I wouldn’t wait either. They seemed to have used great restraint.
They did not hit him, shoot him, or any of the other appropriate things. They held him for the police.
Do you mean detaining young Romeo? I thought at least in some states, you could use non-deadly force to prevent someone from escaping from the scene of a felony, and attempted kidnapping is a felony, I would expect.
IANAL, but I am a Dad. I would not be surprised if he had been arrested. As long as there is at least one father like me on the jury, however, he would never be convicted.
Regards,
Shodan
The article doesn’t say anything about how much force they used.
But the “liberal media” would’ve made hay were there any to be made, methinks.
For some reason I can’t help imagining Peter, Cleveland & Joe catching Glenn and getting all discombobulated.
True dat
Or she’ll look back on how dumb she was as a kid and be forever grateful she had such loving parents.
I know several (two I can think of offhand) kids who had this sort of thing stopped as kids. They all have great relationships with their parents today and are doing fine.