The investigation showed that the young child “suffered broken bones, severe bruising, and was the victim of sexual violence,” according to a press release
A 13-month-old child was allegedly raped and physically abused by a Pennsylvania police offer.
Steven Kyle Cugini, a member of the York City Police Department, was arrested without incident on Tuesday, April 16, following an investigation by the Pennsylvania State Police, Lykens Station, and Lykens Criminal Investigation Unit.
News like this shocks me but then I do that thing we do when we hear bad news and see who’s responsible. Like a bad stereotype, it’s some authoritarian who votes conservative and wants special treatment.
13 month old baby? Wtf?!
Who looks at a baby like that?
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Baby…a 13-month-old child is a baby. This degenerate raped and mauled a baby. No trial. No due process straight to the chair.
No trial. No due process…
You should be ashamed to have typed that. I understand your frustration and anger (I fully agree with you there), but without a trial or due process, I could just say “@HybridSarcasm@lemmy.world raped a 13 month old” and now you’re going to die.
I hope you can see the problem
That’s not at all what happened here. You can argue for due process without false equivalence.
Dudes going to get murdered in prison…
There should absolutely be due process. But if convicted, then straight to the chair
I find it so strange the US still has the death penalty and to read people on lemmy advocate for it surprisingly frequently, despite its rather progressive user base.
That’s the problem with living in a society that has a death penalty… it leads to one having thoughts about how it should be effectively used.
Y’know, since we have it. Can’t let it go to waste.
I’m in the US and I’m not for the death penalty. I think states (Texas, Georgia, etc) have a twisted judicial system and get it wrong too often.
This sort of case is what stops me from full throated opposition. This person should not exist.
So keep them in the cage if that’s what you feel is necessary. Revenge still isn’t worth it.
I get it though, I’m not impervious either.
I’m really not in favor of my taxes going to a for-profit prison so this guy can eat and sleep for the rest of his life. And somewhere, someone is profiting off of it because he committed a crime.
but the market needs slavery to survive, isn’t a mcdouble expensive enough already?
The appeals process really is more expensive. And then in the case he can be actually proven innocent, he isn’t dead.
I agree, but I have two problems.
- Innocent people go to jail all the time, including those who seem overwhelmingly guilty at first.
- If sexually abusing a child is enough to have them put to death, then others will simply kill their victim and dispose of them - the crime has the same penalty after all.
So I can’t support the death penalty, but I can fully support removing them from society entirely, keeping them completely confined for the rest of their life.
If sexually abusing a child is enough to have them put to death, then others will simply kill their victim and dispose of them - the crime has the same penalty after all.
This is an interesting point. The justice system has intentionally designed the punishments in a tiered way to help avoid exactly this. I don’t have any data about its effectiveness, but it seems like a smart idea.
They should still get time to appeal though. What if they shouldn’t have been convicted
