74 year old babysitter fights like hell to protect child from sexual assault

[Liberal_in_LA]

74-year-old babysitter bites intruder, stops sexual assault

An elderly babysitter is being praised after she fought off an intruder who allegedly sexually assaulted a young girl as she slept in bed.

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The young girl told investigators she awoke to find the man buttoning up her shirt. She immediately screamed for help, awaking her 74-year-old babysitter, who was sleeping in the same room, Darby said.

The elderly woman, whose name we're withholding, jumped up and began fighting off the man.

"Intervention by the 74-year-old leads to a lengthy physical struggle," Capt. Darby said. "It literally proceeds from that bedroom and down the steps to the first floor of that property."

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Once he pushed the woman downstairs, the suspect turned around and went to find the girl, investigators said.

The man then grabbed the girl and assaulted her for a second time before running back downstairs and out the front door, Capt. Darby said.

"We have particular concern because of the aggressiveness and the persistentness of this attacker," Capt. Darby said. "The 74-year-old did a heck of a job in protecting this 10-year-old by putting herself in harms way."

http://www.thegrio.com/news/74-year-old-babysitter-bites-intruder-stops-sexual-assault-of-child.php

[MadMaddie]

1. Anyone want to bet a repeat sexual offender?

They think they may have found that young teen in CA.

I am sick and tired of these sex offenders committing more crimes because people think they can be rehabilitated. Enough is Enough.

Now that I have said that if people make false claims and put someone in jail for a sex crime and it turns out to be he/she is innocent the penalties should be harsh too.

[emilyg]

2. I'd like to see

longer jail terms for them.

[nonconformist]

3. I think child sex offenders should get life with no parole.

Flame away.

[MadMaddie]

4. I am of the same school of thought!

Everyday we continue to hear stories of these repeat offenders committing murder and mayhem and then we find out they served part of a sentence and were parolled.

Take them off of the streets because while they continue roam freely no one is safe.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

6. It's not a thought, it's an absence of thought. See my #5

The crucial step you have missed out is the hard one: how do you define "them"? Everyone convicted of sex with a minor? But then what about the case of a 19-year-old who has a consensual relationship with a 15-year-old - are you advocating locking them up for life? Or the ridiculous case a few years back where two 15-year-olds were each convicted of raping the other...

There exist sexual offenders for whom life in prison without parole is an appropriate penalty. There also exist sexual offenders for who 20 years, 10, 5, 6 months or a slap on the wrist is appropriate.

[MadMaddie]

11. I think you define them by the level of violence

This guy in CA was going to get indicted for the murder of another young woman. He originally went to jail for 5 years for attacking a 13 year old next to his mothers house. He served 4 years and was paroled, the pshychiatrist who evaluated him thought he was a threat and said he should never be released.

The law has to identify the level of violence and they have to define the other levels of sex offenders. As far as I am concerned pedophiles should be put away for life.

Obviously if it's two consenting teens then of course no charges should be filed, that's ridiculous. Teens will have sex and that's just the facts of life.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

13. I quite agree that it's ridiculous.

But it's also what you just said. I'm quite sure it's not what you *meant*, but when you get lots of people saying that sort of thing, with or without meaning it, they hear everyone else saying it and assume that everyone else does mean it, and so they come to mean it too.

We had an outbreak of it in the UK a few years back. A girl was burned to death by a mob trying to burn the house of her next-door neighbour, who they suspected of being a sex offender.

And it is quite possible for consenting teens to get a criminal record for sexual experimentation, largely because lawmakers want to pander to the "lock up all sex offenders" instinct, and either don't think or don't care about the consequences.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

5. All of them?

Remember, "child sex offenders" doesn't just cover people who rape 10-year-olds, it also covers a 19-year-old who has a consensual relationship with a 15-year-old.

I think your post perfectly illustrates why sex offenders registers are a bad thing - either of the above cases will get you put on one; most people will assume that any one on them is closer to the former, and actually the latter is more frequent.

Yes, there certainly exist offences for which life without parole is an appropriate punishment - the one detailed in the OP sounds as though it may well be one such. But knee-jerk reactions like this are both foolish and dangerous, I think.

[nonconformist]

7. Well obviously I would hope there would be a brain behind the sentencing.

Question - you say the latter is more frequent. Do you have a link to back that up? Because it is my understanding that cases where there is consent, a very small difference in ages, and the child is close to the age of consent rarely end up in a conviction... yet you imply they are the most common of all.

Sex offender registries that I have seen list the convictions, so you CAN differentiate from a statutory rape conviction when the person was 18 years old from a conviction for rape of a child under 12, for instance. I for one support registries.

I do think that anyone who rapes or molests a child should serve life in prison without parole. They are a danger to society and cannot be rehabilitated.

[emilyg]

9. There are over 700000 registeredsex offenders in u.s. I don't

mind if they rot in jail.

[customerserviceguy]

8. Bravo!

Although I hear that there is a successful treatment involving lead. It has to be administered quickly, though, between the eyes...

[Kablooie]

12. And in CA they are going to let more of them out early. No money to keep prisoners in CA.

[4_TN_TITANS]

10. This reminds me of the story that was posted

about a punk who broke into the house of a 70-something old man and pulled a knife on him. Turns out the old man was a retired boxer who made quick work of KOing the kid and calling the cops. There was even a pic with the story showing the black and blue face and busted nose.

Watch out for old critters, many times they can surprise you!

[Odin2005]

14. KICK