A quick aside about this case - one of his other children saw the rapist taking the little 5-year-old girl into an outbuilding (I want to say a barn) and ran to tell his dad. The dad came barreling out and beat the crap out of the rapist - the little girl’s panties had already been pulled down and, when she was checked out by the doctors, there was evidence that she’d been violated.
The father then called 911 to get an ambulance there for the man - the dad did NOT want to kill anyone, and did CPR to try to save the rapist’s life. There were recordings of the father trying to get an ambulance there faster and of him trying to get his own car to get the rapist to the hospital. Sadly,
This father defended his baby daughter, and THEN he turned around and tried to save the other guy’s life.
He would not have faced charges even if he hadn’t tried to save the rapist’s life, because he was legitimately in fear of his daughter’s life. Trying to save the guy wasn’t some act to try to avoid being punished. The man was legitimately afraid and trying to save the rapist’s life simply because the father had no intention to kill anyone.
So he never faced charges, because 1) it was an accidental death, 2) it happened when he was in legitimate fear of his daughter’s life, and 3) he made every honest effort to preserve the rapist’s life.
I see this post on my dash from time to time and I thought I should expand the story, because to me, it says a lot about the guy that he was willing to do whatever it took to protect his daughter, but was also willing to do as much as he could to avoid killing. I think he should be recognized for his strength of character.
P.S. - his name was not released to the press in order to protect his 5-year-old daughter’s identity, which is why I refer to him as “the father” and the other guy as “the rapist.” I’m not trying to use inflammatory language here; there was biological evidence that the dude raped the little girl, and I needed a way to differentiate between the two men when talking about them.
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