Man Burns Daughters For Discipline

[piemaker720]

Originally Posted by rhertz

I understand you sentiment, but clearly someone who tortures another human being is mentally ill. Your post is good in that his daughters should be given a chance to grow up without fear. I'm all for that. But jail does nothing to cure mental illness. In fact, it might amplify it. So maybe they should either lock him up for life (at taxpayers expense) or else at least try to cure him, if indeed someday he will be let loose again into the public. I hope I'm not sounding too much like a liberal for ya there Isaac.

There could be another reason, the guy could be just plain durn mean. Even his own wife called the police, and he tried to hide the kids so the police would not see the burns. That don't sound mental.