Sereal child rapist allegedly killed by molestation victim in same cell

[underpants]

'tis a shame for Mr.Ausley huh?

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=71191&ran=84887

After slaying, some question state's policy on assigning cellmates

The 64-year-old man had been locked up for much of the past four decades for sexually assaulting several teenagers in South Hampton Roads. He tossed one boy in a ditch and abandoned another in a wooden box.

Now, a man who himself was a childhood victim of sexual abuse is accused of killing Ausley.

Dewey K. “Frankie” Venable, 24, had vowed in a letter to his grandmother that he would not let himself be raped in prison. He also had told family members that he had been disciplined for attacking inmates who were sex offenders.

“He had asked not to be stuck in a cell with a child molester, flat out, plain and simple,” his aunt, Patricia Nelson, said in an interview.

Venable has told his family that he did not commit the crime.

Department of Corrections officials would not talk about the pending criminal case or about information from inmate files. In an e-mail response to The Virginian-Pilot, department spokesman Larry Traylor wrote that there are no policies specifically governing cell assignments for sex offenders or inmates who are known victims of molestation.

Venable was molested at least once in the mid-1980s, when he was between the ages of 4 and 7, according to records in Norfolk Circuit Court.

In 1988, Dennis L. Sewell pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated sexual battery for attacks on Venable and another child, court records show. Sewell received a suspended 20-year prison sentence and 10 years of probation.

[theboss]

1. Child rapists are lowmen on the prison totem pole

Life is typically not good for them in gen pop, regardless of their cellmate.

[bleedingheart]

2. I have heard that as well..

"honor among theives"

[Aidoneus]

3. fuck him (pun not intended)

Rapists rank somewhere between KeyboardWarriors & malaria-causing mosquitos in the pecking order of living organisms.

Then again, four decades must've given him much time to think about what was done.

[Bronco69]

4. Forgive my stupidity but

what is a keyboardwarrior?

[underpants]

5. Gamers?

I'm guessing.

[Bronco69]

6. Thank you

:-)

[Aidoneus]

10. guessing wrongly :)

No, I meant those gungho crusaders who prefer somebody else to do their heavy lifting.

[underpants]

11. Got ya

Yeah they are just a few steps out of the primordial ooze.

[AntiCoup2K4]

8. Those Freepers who say they're gonna

"hunt down all them goddamn unamerican commie terra sympathizing demoRATS and kill 'em with my bare hands" would be an example of keyboard warriors.

As for the "dearly departed" pedophile, I won't shed any tears for him.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. Put me in the jury. I want to acquit this man.

Because, you know, I'm soft on crime. :evilgrin:

That said, this paragraph picked my curiosity:

Last year, his impending release helped prompt legislators to create a new law allowing the state to continue holding “sexually violent predators” after they have completed their prison terms.

What's the POINT of HAVING prison terms at all then? When a criminal is convicted to X years for a crime, can the State just keep saying, "uh, actually, it should be X+5, X+10, ... " just like that?

[theboss]

9. It's based on recidivism rate of sex offenders

The trend over the last few decades has been the general acceptance of the notion that sex offenders cannot be rehabilitated. This is why we have Meghan's Law and the like.

In ten years, you are likely to see mandatory life sentences for convicted sex offenders if this trend continues.

[Baltimoreboy]

12. Would that be a problem?

[pop goes the weasel]

14. yes

Sentences that seem overly harsh to juries can cause them to look for any reason to acquit. This is why it is good to have discretion built into the system.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

13. When I worked with street kids, it was appalling how

many of them had been sexually abused.

One of the regular counselors told me that if the street kids suspected that one of their number had pedophile tendencies, they would literally try to kill him.