That bastard also killed the girl after raping her.
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Title should really include this too. Utterly fucked up.
You're correct it should I edited it
Oddly enough, no one in the courtroom saw anything 🤷
"I can't remember a thing, but i do remember at one point we all gave a standing ovation. Can't remember why though".
100% justified
Yep would done the same or worse to that fucker.
A quick death is a mercy he did not deserve.
But it’s also a level of finality that the state would not have granted.
Holy shit that's a hell of a video
There is no video of the actual incident, this is from a movie
Do you have a source cos if so I'll edit the post so it's not misinformation
What’s the source that it’s courtroom footage?
There’s no video linked on Wikipedia but multiple films listed.
It’s from no time for tears
Thanks I've edited the post
Ah boo! But thanks for saying something
She doesn't flinch, she's calm, and she doesn't stop firing till she knows the job is done.
I'm glad she didn't do much time
She gunned him down the day I was born.
It's it weird that him admitting to it makes it that much better? Like she didn't kill someone who may have been innocent, she ended the right person and from the video was very calm about the after math.
Edit: apparently the video is from a movie
Respect o7
I guess Germany doesn’t have jury nullification.
They don't have juries.
Fuck that's utterly grim. In her shoes, I might well do the same.
Gary Plauche is another person who took justice into his own hands over the kidnapping and rape of his son back in the 1980s.
Plauche learned that the suspect was being flown back to town in police custody, and figured out the flight he was on. He waited at the airport, pretending to be using a pay phone. As the suspect was escorted past him he walked up and shot him in the head at almost point blank range. A local TV station caught it all on camera and I think you can still find it if you search for it.
Plauche was ultimately convicted of manslaughter but was given a suspended sentence, probation, and community service. No jail time.
He did what needed to be done.
Jesus fucking christ no he didn't - a big reason we don't do vigilante executions is the same reason we shouldn't be doing the government sponsored kind:
COPS ARE BAD AT THEIR JOB
At the time there was every chance that Doucet was innocent because the cops had arrested the wrong person - the evidence was not available, and Gary Plauche unilaterally carried out a death sentence on a man on a rumor. In this case it probably worked out, although the investigation into Doucet was stopped after his death and the case was considered closed so we still don't know for sure: testimony of a traumatized 10 year old and Doucet's presence in the hotel room are the primary evidence, but there was no further investigation to find out if he was even the only person involved. At the time, Plauche didn't even know for sure that Doucet was in the hotel room, he had just been given rumors.
From your post history, you're a decent person, you're not some bootlicker, so why are you affording the police enough credibility that you believe their initial investigations are so well conducted that they can unilaterally be used as grounds for summary execution?
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And I was just thinking about what an awful place this world is. I have not been contradicted.
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Fuck that guy
To be honest: She was far from a saint herself and it's very likely that she didn't do it for the girl but more to make sure she wasn't painted in even more of a bad light
It's a sad story all along.
Why was she far from being a saint?
She operated a (pretty shady) bar and basically prioritised that and her own enjoyment over her child a lot of times,letting her child sleep in the (guest area of the) bar,even when she was not working and someone else (she barely knew) worked there because she was out partying. Additionally this lifestyle led to her sleeping in for a long time letting her daughter often be unsupervised/uncared for at a very young age (like...toddler age) - as it happened on that day. (She kid skipped school - very likely with her mother knowing and allowing her after a fight they had. And left "to visit a friend the same age" - who would be in school at that time. There are some sources citing neighbours that it's possible she threw her out because the girl was getting on her nerves as she possibly did before).
She actually, under mounting pressure from the German version of CPS and her relatives and friends openly (including in front of the child) discussed giving her up for adoption (like she had done 2 times before with other children)/ claimed she didn't want to be responsible for the child.
She later refused to take part in the court proceedings, mainly these also did shine some light on her role of her as a mother and actually was almost imprisoned for being in contempt of the court. There are some theories that this, together with the fact that the perpetrator claiming that he was blackmailed by the child which back then would have fallen back on her as well (even if obviously untrue) was the real reason she decided to kill the guy at the time she did. (She later on confessed that it was murder and not manslaughter)
Surely a lot of things must be seen in the (very tight and depressing) morals of the time - she was a young woman with a bad family history herself and then her life became even worse. But...that was not the fault of the child as well. And by either standards, todays as well as the ones back then she surely was a bad mother,sorry.
Was she responsible for the murder of her daughter? No. Does that make her less of a bad person and less of a murderer herself? No.
(We had to cover this case in uni extensively - one of my professors actually was working as a DA in the same building back when it happend -- or something like that, can't remeber-)
Interesting. Thank you for taking the time.
Most valid crashout
Hero
I did a research report on this subject and the underlying risk factors that make vigilante justice it more likely in a society https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5az_rOTb0E
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