Utah Man Jailed For Alleged Wiimote Rape

[deserteagleeye]

After reading this, I don't think I can watch this again without heaving a bit.

 

[BrunDeign]

Okay Escapist, you had a good enough news day. You don't need to reach into "Creepy, disturbing crimes committed with gaming devices" to fill your "News Quota." Please never post anything like this again, thanks.

 

[subtlefuge]

Based on how the story makes absolutely no sense, I'm guessing it's either part fiction, or we are hearing the less fucked up version.

Here's to hoping the whole thing was made up.

 

[ph0b0s123]

Allow me a minute to express total feelings of shock and awe towards arguments that I've obviously never heard before...

Yeah, I'm done.

Yes, and what a way for the justice system to teach people that harming your fellow man is wrong, by murdering someone in cold blood, and inviting people to watch.

Bias apparent from the start, I like it. Hey, I can't criticize since I'm obviously biased too, but when exactly did I say executions should be a spectator sport? I never said that? Huh.

Also, I don't view it as "murdering someone in cold blood", I view it as removing a worthless and harmful member from society in the most efficient manner possible.

The people who enforce our laws have to be above the morality of the people who break them, otherwise they have no credibility. There has to be a difference between us and them.

Not sure what you're getting at here, seeing as the justice system doesn't go around breaking and entering, raping, murdering, etc. the populace, so I do think they have more credibility than the people who do and should rightly punish those who commit these acts.

I could go on... so I will.

Do tell.

There is also the fact that when you choose to execute someone you are doing so first at the risk, however small, that the person you are about to condemn is actually innocent,

We live in a shit world. People die. If one innocent individual dies for every 1000 criminals no longer pose a threat to society, it's the best that can be done. It's a tragedy, yes, but at the same time would you have to decide whether the havoc wreaked by 1000 walked criminals is worth it.

and second, in the knowledge that by executing him you are eliminating any chance of them being reformed. That's the thing about killing someone. Whether you see it as justice or murder, if you get it even slightly wrong then you can't take it back.

Deaf ears from me. I don't believe they deserve to be reformed. Anyone who violates the human rights of another individual deserves none of their own.

Besides, when you kill someone, they're dead and that's it for them, chances are they'll barely have time to feel any pain, if at all. The people who actually go on suffering are their families, and what crime did they commit?

You sure about that? You think it doesn't hurt the millions of individuals who see their loved ones' murderer/rapist walk free? You don't think these families would rather see the sick fucker dead, unable to harm another person ever again?

Still think the death penalty is a good idea?

Yes, I do.

Awful case, but all this talk of the death sentence for this crime. I though the whole moral concept for the death penalty was an 'eye for an eye' old testament style. When did it start coming up that the death penalty was acceptable for crime (even though very horrible) that did not involve death.

That just kicks any moral justification for the death penalty out the window and you are now just being a lynch mob. That's not civilisation. Shame on you....

"You don't think these families would rather see the sick fucker dead, unable to harm another person ever again?"

Duh, that's why you have a justice system (which yes could be better) rather than letting a victim decide the punishment. They are hardly going to be objective.

 

[DarklordKyo]

So who knows whether or not Fox is gonna bend this and twist this until they get something used to damn gamers? (and I'm not telling a joke, I'm being serious).

 

[6SteW6]

Hey, hey you, that's not how you use a Wiimote! That's not how you use a Wiimote at all!

 

[jacobidstrom]

Um wow... good thing they didn't have a dreamcast.

 

[Benny Blanco]

This is just nasty. Why would someone do that?

 

[dmase]

This really didn't need to be on here. There is at least something for a gamer to think about in a kid killing his dad after losing a fifa soccer game but this is just insanity not related to videogames or needed to be mentioned.

 

[FoolKiller]

Wait. What was a 26 year old doing at a kids sleepover to begin with?!

Thank you. It only took 66 posts to ask this question. Along with the "when this was happening why didn't any of the other kids go to get the parents?"

Also, at 12 I would have started to beat the drunk with a baseball bat.

 

[TonyVonTonyus]

Though an extremely funny scenario he's still the scum of the earth.

Good. I hope he gets raped with a shiv in prison; a little ironic justice.

Wouldn't that be poetic justice?

 

[Rayne870]

i didn't know people still played wii...let alone took it that seriously. Anyway it seems this guy needs a whoopin.

as a side note I may not have the full story here, but it seems more a guy with serious rage issues than a pedophile.

 

[Robert Ewing]

I can imagine this turning into a Mario party game. Sigh.

 

[Chaos1228]

This is disgusting. This guy should go away for life.

Also, WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THOSE KIDS HEADS?????? And why didnt they get those brain-dead parents after and when this was going on? And why was a 26-year old there in the first place and STILL allowed to stay???

Does not compute.

 

[Rhiehn]

If you're honestly equating me to a child rapist because I believe such individuals have no place in society, the conversation ends here.

No sir, I don't think you're equal to a child rapist because you believe they have no place in society, it's because you believe child molesters should be sodomized with knives. Do you not realize that society has moved on from this type of punishment? Draconian punishment has no place in a developed civilization.

 

[jawakiller]

I thought this was going to be a story about a man repeatedly pressing the "a" button...

The title mislead me, I am forever disgraced.

Oh, and who the fuck even owns a Wii anymore? Hate to say this but it sounds like the guy threatened the kid he would shove the controller up his ass if he didn't shut up... The kid said bullshit. Dude proved he wasn't bullshitting. End of story. Not a pedophile, a very literal man who takes his threats seriously.