# There just ain't a punishment bad enough for this guy. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 16, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-just-aint-a-punishment-bad-enough-for-this-guy/188790 "2003-07-16T02:14:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mastema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@Mastema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mastema)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-just-aint-a-punishment-bad-enough-for-this-guy/188790/1 "2003-07-16T02:14:50Z")
[Handyman keeps sex slaves.](http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-07-15-captive-women_x.htm) I don’t even know what to say. Forgive me if someone already started a thread on this, I couldn’t find it. ---
**Author:** ![Heloise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e36b37/32.png) [@Heloise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heloise)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-just-aint-a-punishment-bad-enough-for-this-guy/188790/2 "2003-07-16T02:44:47Z")
You’re right. There is nothing on this earth that we could legally do to him to make up for what he did to these women. What a vile person. I hope prison is truly hell on earth for him. ---
**Author:** ![Capcha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Capcha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capcha)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-just-aint-a-punishment-bad-enough-for-this-guy/188790/3 "2003-07-16T02:44:56Z")
he cried and opoligized? God bless them all? I’m sorry. i’m too enraged to answer. ---
**Author:** ![sylphishone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@sylphishone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sylphishone)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-just-aint-a-punishment-bad-enough-for-this-guy/188790/4 "2003-07-16T17:56:55Z")
I think he just needs to be put to sleep quickly an quietly. Maybe poison in his food. He isn’t sorry he did it. He is sorry he got caught. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-just-aint-a-punishment-bad-enough-for-this-guy/188790/5 "2003-07-16T18:09:05Z")
Into the Sun with him, I say. ---
**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-just-aint-a-punishment-bad-enough-for-this-guy/188790/6 "2003-07-16T18:11:45Z")
There is no punishment “justified” for him. “Vengence is mine saith the Lord” We will have to trust God that he will get just punishment in the afterlife. I am all for the death penalty and not the whimpy way out with lethal injection. I’m talking get “Old Sparky” fired up! ---
**Author:** ![Splanky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@Splanky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Splanky)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-just-aint-a-punishment-bad-enough-for-this-guy/188790/7 "2003-07-16T18:15:31Z")
Only 18 years? Hopefully he’ll be someone else’s sex slave in jail. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Conceivable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@In\_Conceivable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Conceivable)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-just-aint-a-punishment-bad-enough-for-this-guy/188790/8 "2003-07-16T18:48:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Splanky \* > \*\*Only 18 years? Hopefully he’ll be someone else’s sex slave in jail. \*\* Here we go… ---
**Author:** ![lachesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@lachesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lachesis)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-just-aint-a-punishment-bad-enough-for-this-guy/188790/9 "2003-07-16T18:57:55Z")
well, it _would_ rather fit the ol’ “let the punishment fit the crime” ideal, wouldn’t it? why yes, i am rather fond of _The Mikado_, now that you ask… ---
**Author:** ![UnwrittenNocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/6de8d8/32.png) [@UnwrittenNocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwrittenNocturne)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-just-aint-a-punishment-bad-enough-for-this-guy/188790/10 "2003-07-16T19:12:39Z")
The temptation to lash out with a knee jerk reaction is high. This guy was seriously under-sentenced. I hope that the prosecutors will be appealing that sentence. However, while we are wishing all things foul on this person (and I use that term lightly), it is probably worth remembering that one of the things we can use to mark a civilised society, as opposed to say a mob, is the way in which we treat those who have offended against us. Just saying, you know… ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-just-aint-a-punishment-bad-enough-for-this-guy/188790/11 "2003-07-16T19:20:37Z")
I guess he only got 18 years because he pleaded guilty. Still, that seems like awfully short sentence for something this serious and awful. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Conceivable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@In\_Conceivable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Conceivable)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-just-aint-a-punishment-bad-enough-for-this-guy/188790/12 "2003-07-16T19:29:28Z")
The sentance was 18 to Life. I don’t know what that will equal in actual years served, but he is an older guy. At 68 there is a good chance that he won’t see the light of day again. ---
**Author:** ![bryanmaguire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bryanmaguire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bryanmaguire)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-just-aint-a-punishment-bad-enough-for-this-guy/188790/13 "2003-07-16T21:39:15Z")
What I cant understand is that he let some of the women go after keeping them for a couple of years. How was this guy not caught sooner?