A charming local story from Fort Wayne:
The upstanding citizen in question is one Shaquille Rowe.
Apparently he hit this 17 month old child, Aiden M. Clark, so hard that it killed him…
According to WREG, the autopsy found that the child suffered from a fractured sternum and the affidavit said that “his heart was ripped in half.” The boy had a massive amount of hemorrhaging from a torn pericardium sac and hemorrhaging around his left kidney and pancreas from supposed blunt force trauma to his midsection.
Even with a child that small, it would require a pretty significant blow to cause that kind of lethal damage. It sounds like the mother left for some reason and placed her twin boys under the responsible care of Shaquille. I am shocked it turned out badly, it normally is super safe to leave children alone with an unrelated malcontent.
With any luck one of his fellow inmates will kill him in the lockup and save the taxpayers the cost of housing this useless trash for the next 60 years but what should be done is a summary execution after a fair trial and then hanging his corpse in the public square for a month to let the birds have their way with his corpse. Maybe that would discourage these fellas from killing toddlers because they were bothering him.
"…what should be done is a summary execution after a fair trial and then hanging his corpse in the public square for a month to let the birds have their way with his corpse."
I have had this exact same thought many times over the years in regards to some scumbag's misdeeds.
I believe the whole "the death penalty isn't a deterrent" thing is ONLY because the death penalty isn't carried out in this manner. They lock some shitbag away for 20 years of appeals then when/if the execution finally happens, it gets two paragraphs of coverage on page 3 and nobody really hears about it.
If you've seen a few of your homies hanging around, beieng devoured by crows and such, you just might think twice. Then again, there is a distinct lack of thinking in the first place…
Nevertheless, the idea of citizens paying tens of thousands of dollars annually to house and feed these humanoid monsters is appalling. They don't deserve oxygen, much less food and shlter.
I am going to hell for asking this, but was the child black? Please tell me the child was black. No 17 month old deserves to die like this, ever. But it would ease my dark soul to suppose that at least the world was spared the inevitability of another worthless miscreant like the devil spawn that killed him.
My God.
I checked on the Allen County coroner site, he was black.
A college course I took on criminal justice and the legal system talked about the need for punishment to be swift, certain and severe to be a deterrent. What we have certainly isn't swift nor is it severe. Gently going to sleep? Screw that. Let them be torn apart by wolves or set on fire. That will leave in impression.