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eight men...beat him with their fists...
Childers had bruises on his head and face, but was not hospitalized.

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Pu**ies.

Edit: I'm too slow. May eight men beat me just short of hospitalization.

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Childers had bruises on his head and face, but was not hospitalized.

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Thumbs down. The man was not beaten nearly enough.

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Yea, no mention of missing genitals.

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this is sorta like the boondock saints

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Childers has been convicted of lewd and lascivious acts on a child under 16.

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Since the penalty for child molestation (as well as rape) should be death, I see nothing wrong with the actions of these eight men due to the fact that Childers had been convicted of this crime in a court of law. A mere "so and so molested/raped me. Go beat him up" would not be enough for me in this case.

However, I wouldn't personally participate in the beating unless the victim were someone important to me... in which case I'd be too selfish to share with the other 7 dudes.

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On a related note, many released sex offenders have been hounded out of towns and cities, since they must identify themselves to local law enforcement. Concerned citizens then force said ex-con out of the area by various means. Should these people be locked up forever, or can they be cured? If the latter, will parents believe it to be true?

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Since they have been ostracized from society, why not go all the way? Put them in isolated communities, similar to leper colonies.

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On a related note, many released sex offenders have been hounded out of towns and cities, since they must identify themselves to local law enforcement. Concerned citizens then force said ex-con out of the area by various means. Should these people be locked up forever, or can they be cured? If the latter, will parents believe it to be true?

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They can be cured the same way I cured my cats and dog. snip snip.

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why not go all the way? Put them in isolated communities, similar to leper colonies.

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trial lawyers

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Disclaimer: Before I get flames, I'd just like to point out that I believe that pedophiles should be be thrown in jail and they should throw away the key after doing so. There's nothing more disgusting than someone who molests a child.

That being said...

The story sounds more like a car full of drunken good ole' boys who had a great excuse to go beat someone down. My gut feeling is that there never was any "attempted assault" of a 12 year old girl. The car full of rednecks had a few too many beers, someone mentioned that there's a sex offender in the neighbourhood, and next thing you know they're all piling in the '93 Oldsmobile for a beat-down.

We have no idea what this "sex offender" really did to be labelled as such. He was convicted of lewd and lascivious acts on a child under 16. Maybe he picked up some girl at a bar who "looked 18" but turned out to be 15 (though he doesn't look like the type an 18 year old would be all that interested in). Maybe he picked up a hooker who turned out to be a 15 year old runaway. My point is that we don't really know, and I'm suspecting that the guys who laid a beating on him didn't really know either.

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why not go all the way? Put them in isolated communities, similar to leper colonies.

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Yes, they'd go too.