10-08-2014, 09:57 PM
(10-08-2014, 08:56 PM)username Wrote: I'm glad it doesn't matter to you; I was worried there for awhile about your feelings. I'm very relieved right now--a HUGE weight I didn't even realize I was carrying has been lifted off my shoulders.Your arguments remind me of aussie's here, seriously.
You said, "if you (HOTD) want me to hate him, blah blah blah". I didn't assume you cared about how I feel when I responded. I only corrected your inaccurate assumption that I care about how you feel in regards to Stephen Collins, Mrs. All-About-Me.
(10-08-2014, 08:56 PM)username Wrote: Do you refer to yourself as a girl? Just wondering. I think of you more as a wizened old coot but maybe you're still living in your cheerleader days like Ramsey. I suggest that you post haste go and report any crimes committed against your person 40 years ago so you can finally heal and perhaps clean up that fucked up life of yours. It's a shame...all these years and no Mr. HotD and no little HotD's...it's time to process your past and bring those that harmed you 40 years ago to their knees so you can begin your healing and perhaps become the adult you were meant to be.
Jesus Christ, ^ that made zero sense.
You can stop wondering -- yes, I refer to myself as a "girl" when speaking about something that happened to me when I was a child. It's accurate to refer to the female victims of Collins as "girls" when speaking about them in the context of the child molestation. "The girl in the neighborhood who was molested never said anything..." is correct. "The woman who used to be a girl in the neighborhood when she was molested never said anything when she was a girl nor as a woman" is needlessly lengthy. Yeah, I'm a loquacious bitch, but that's too much for even me.P.s. I was never a cheerleader. I have no crimes against me. And, I'm the content unmarried childless (by birth, at least) adult that I was meant to be. Boring maybe, but true.
(10-08-2014, 08:56 PM)username Wrote: It does remain to be seen whether his crimes are 40 years old or not. If he committed more recent crimes, he deserves anything/everything he gets. But even as awful as what he apparently did was, I wouldn't persecute somebody who had seemingly lived 40 years after the crime as a mostly model citizen (I'm just throwing that out there; I have no idea if he's been a model citizen). Why would children need to be protected from someone who hasn't (potentially) committed a crime in over 40 years? I'd be more afraid of your Northern neighbor than him if that were the case.
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I understand clearly that you wouldn't persecute him and you have a sort of personal statute of limitations when it comes to child molestation. I don't.
As far as prosecuting him, I don't know if I would or not. If I were the DA, there would be other factors (like the ones you mentioned) to weigh before making that call. As I said, I'm happy that the public exposure minimizes his opportunity to prey on children again, whether he's prosecuted or not. Maybe you consider that viewpoint to be like a persecution of the child molester? If so, yeah, I'm persecuting him.
Bottom line -- the taping was not illegal under California law where the recording was made, and there is no statute of limitations for sexual assault of a child in New York state where the confessed crimes took place. Thus, prosecution -- using the taped confession as evidence -- is possible in this case (though it wouldn't be in other states). So, poor persecuted Stephen (of whom I have no fear, btw) could be in big legal trouble, regardless of your notion that time should silently heal all wounds and absolve people of long-past crimes.
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