PS parent again. His neighbors have pressed charges before. He is well-known and a frequent offender, usually masturbating in public but occasionally breaking in to people's homes or yards, or verbally accosting pedestrians. He has refused treatment. I've lived here for a long time. It's one thing to be aware of your environment when walking the neighborhood, with the understanding that bad luck can come for any us at any time. It's really something else to sit at work and know that there are people in our community that would dare attack a group of teachers caring for 30 toddlers and infants. It's disorienting. |
I don’t understand the insulting of people who are on the same side as you, but ok. He needs consequences, I said as much. After the consequences he needs real help, mental health commitment + drug rehab. He probably won’t be able to live independently ever. Drug abuse changes your mental state permanently. So they need to have a plan for that or else he’s going to end up on the street offending again. Then we end up with the feel bad stories about “guy with severe untreated schizophrenia and a drug problem got arrested and thrown in jail for whatever, where he was mistreated by guards or other inmates and died as a result” and then we start the soft on crime nonsense which makes us all worse off. |
Because you’re an incredible apologist and are glossing over the sex crime aspect. A repeated sex offender. For other people who are child sex abusers, ask yourself to you have empathy for them, do you say “they can’t help it”, etc., because this attitude is an insult to the millions is sex abuse victims. He needs intense sex offender therapy and possibly to never be on the streets. The lead shouldn’t be he was on drugs, or that he has mental health issues, the lead is that he is well known, repeated child sex abuser (not just this week). Wake up. I want you to be safe, I want everyone to be safe. |
If that's truly the case, then he needs to be hospitalized or in some way confined with oversight and supervision and medical support for the rest of his life. |
When's the last time you heard of a mentally ill woman exposing her genitals to children? I am so tired of people excusing criminal and lewd behavior as "mental illness." |
How about a one bedroom in the Saratoga? |
I think that’s the difference. I’m too cynical. It doesn’t matter in the eyes of … basically everyone involved in the DC criminal Justice system, what his crimes were. Sex offenses, assault, being drugged out of mind, none of it seems to make a difference. The only offense that seems to really lock people up vs. serve a short sentence at most and then be released, is literal murder. They don’t give a s*** about anything else. I doubt he even hits the sex offender registry for this. The APS kid who filmed himself jumping out of the bushes and forcibly groping random women won’t end up on the registry, and that was in Virginia! And even then being on the registry only makes a difference if you’re trying to better your life and play by the rules, which a homeless drug addicted vagrant with serious mental illness is not. The only thing is to compel him to treatment after he serves a prison sentence. And the treatment would have to be lifelong because, again, people with his profile can’t support themselves. And I’m honestly not even clear if we can force people into treatment. It sounded like in the past he was supposed to get treatment but was non-compliant and then the system lost track of him. |
By confinement, i was including incarceration. |
+1. Dis everyone read the story in the Metro section of the Post today about this? He bragged to the teacher as he was assaulting her that there would be no consequences But sure. Let’s all worry about this worthless dirtbag and his “services.” I say, lock him up. |
Yep. I’m totally fine with hearing that this guy got “disappeared” one night and was never seen again. That’s totally ok with me. We don’t have a shortage of human beings on planet earth. We’re not an endangered species where every living being is precious no matter how insane they are. Some people are just defective. And when their defects repeatedly intersect with other people’s safety - then they need to be disposed of. I’m willing to give a loon like him two chances, which I think is more than fair, and possibly even still a dangerous burden for the rest of us to put up with. But after he F’s up a third time - he ends up in a shallow hole in the woods somewhere. I’m not the least bit apologetic for feeling this way. |
There’s a crazy woman over my the Anacostia Metro that routinely urinates, defecates and pleasures herself in front of the windows at the Thurgood Marshall Academy charter school. I’ve personally seen her doing it on at least two dozen occasions. So yes, it happens. Frequently. |
Begs the question where were the men in the area? No one saw this happening and intervened. Shame on any grown, able bodied man who was in the area at the time and didn’t engage this POS when he was beating women and sexually abusing kids. WTF?!!!! |
As a toddler parent, I just want to say I’m so sorry for what you, the staff and the kids went through. I can’t imagine how scary it was for the teachers, who are the sweetest women and treat the children with such love and care. |
Did you call the police EVERY SINGLE TIME or did you just shrug and go about your business. |
Good Samaritans are disfavored in blue cities: https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/14/us/daniel-penny-indicted-jordan-neely-chokehold/index.html |