All because she wouldn't go to bed.

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Now we know why little 'Precious Doe' was killed.

Her step-father beat and kicked her to death, then used hedge trimmers to decapitate her. 

Why?  What would cause a person to commit such a horrific act of violence on a 4 year old child?

She wouldn't go to bed.

That waste of human flesh, that human stain, that excuse for humanity....he killed her because she wouldn't go to sleep, then he dumped her like she was garbage on the side of the road.

It's things like this that really make me work at being Buddhist.  I can't find any kind of compassion for this...this.....I don't know what else to call him right now.  Maybe time will help me find some lovingkindness, but right now.....

...I detest what he's done. 

 

 

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Buddhism teaches you to feel sympathy to those who do this kind of thing? Why are you not leaving Buddism?
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
There is nothing wrong with detesting the evil acts people commit. I would be more concerned about someone who didn't detest them.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
This kind of stuff infuriates me. A while back I read about a father who fatally kicked his son in the abdomen because the child was standing in front of the tv and blocking his view of the football game.

Here in Hawaii (though on a different island) a little girl was taken from a home...her mother had decided she wanted to party and not be a mom anymore so she left her daughter with another family...this family made the child their personal punching bag. There was a teenage son who took all of his aggressions out on her. The family beat her and did not care for her wounds. When she was taken away, she was on the porch, unable to move, with maggots and rotting flesh all over her body from the untreated injuries. She was covered in cigarette burns. As far as I know, she's still alive and being properly cared for, but I can't imagine the hell she went through while she was living with that family...not just physically, but psychologically as well.

I get angry with my kids, but I can't understand how an adult could do something so horrid to a child. They are so innocent and helpless...it's our responsibility to protect them.

And I can't understand what kind of monster would go so far as to cut the head off of a child that they've raised and nurtured, even after the child's death.

What makes someone capable of something so evil?
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
I wish we had a device that we could rewind and look at a person's life.
This monster who committed this terrible, unbelievable crime at one point was a young boy himself full of hopes.

What could have happened in this person's life that 30 years later he would be standing over the corpse of a child with hedge clippers ready to chop off the head.

I would love to play his life from the beginning in slow motion and watch where and how this monster became. My guess would be his own parents fucked him up, it's just usually how these things begin.

Don't get me wrong, I am NOT supporting this guy at all, but yet we all start off on this earth with a clean slate; how did his get so dirty?
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Maybe he is just a mean,selfish person. Sorry, I don't buy in to the "it's his parents fault". An adult has control over their actions and are solely responsible for them. For all we know he may have been a mean, selfish kid too.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
I wish this was the most disgusting act against a child I had ever heard. Unfortunately, it is not. In Chicago about 7 years ago there was a case that made me physically sick hearing about it. Anyone with the stomach for the details can look up "Joan Tribblet" and "Everett Johnson." Be advised, it is horrible, so horrible it may not even sound possible.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top

Buddhism teaches you to feel sympathy to those who do this kind of thing? Why are you not leaving Buddism?

No, Buddhism does NOT teach me to have sympathy, it requires that I find some compassion.  There's a big difference.  I cannot sympathise or empathize with this person, I cannot feel sorry for him in any way shape or form.  I actually feel disgust for him, and that doesn't happen very often.  As for my not leaving Buddhism...well, you made that statement not fully understanding what it's about, so I'm not going to answer.

 

There is nothing wrong with detesting the evil acts people commit. I would be more concerned about someone who didn't detest them

I do detest what he did.  Absolutely.

 

I can't understand how an adult could do something so horrid to a child.

I can't either.  I get irritated and mad at mine, but I have never, ever even considered doing anything worse than spanking them.....so how in the hell a person could do this to a little girl I simply do not know.  I go look at mine when they're in their beds sleeping, and no matter how mad I might have been at them before they said good night the sight of them so peaceful just makes me melt.

we all start off on this earth with a clean slate; how did his get so dirty?

I'm not going to buy the 'I am a product of my environment and therefore I can blame every shitty thing I've ever done on my upbringing' argument either.  If you realize that you do some fucked up stuff because of how you were raised, if you are that astute, then you have a responsibility to so something about it; to make a change for the better.  Some people are just wired differently, and that wiring makes them..well, evil. I don't like to use that term because it's worn out and almost meaningless....but some people are just that.  Evil.

An adult has control over their actions and are solely responsible for them. For all we know he may have been a mean, selfish kid too.

Exactly.

 

I wish this was the most disgusting act against a child I had ever heard. Unfortunately, it is not.

I know, and that makes me very, very sad.

Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top

They both did it!  neither is guiltless!  I have following it, and it is just too sick for words.  And in the end, the ACLU will defend them.

Sickening.

Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
Sickening.


The whole thing is sickening!
The guilty parties should suffer the same punishment as the poor little victim....
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top

The whole thing is sickening!
The guilty parties should suffer the same punishment as the poor little victim....

Today they may get long prison terms.  5 years from now?  Who cares about a post partum fetus?