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Happy Ending for a Change [Dan Collins]

If one child’s life is saved by these measures, they’re worth it . . .

Modesto police said a missing 14-year-old girl was found safe in the trunk of a car belonging to a registered sex offender.

Officers said the family of the girl had filed a missing child report around 3:00 a.m. Saturday, hours after she was last seen at her home in Modesto.

Authorities found her after a high speed chase with 38-year-old registered sex offender Jared Conway. The girl was in the trunk of his grey 2001 Honda Civic.

The girl was airlifted to a hospital in Davis with non life-threatening injuries.

There is no word on what charges may be filed against Conway.

Here’s more on this vomitous perp.

81 Replies to “Happy Ending for a Change [Dan Collins]”

  1. Trimegistus says:

    See? She was perfectly safe in the trunk! All you judgemental xtianists are just bigoted against people with different sexual preferences from your narrow-minded selves.

  2. happyfeet says:

    I still don’t like sex offender registry thingers. For real I think some sort of technological lojack type fix would be more better. Or whatever. I don’t know how that would work exactly. Either that or just shoot them.

  3. lee says:

    Ship them all to Louisiana I say. The governor there knows what to do with his kind.

  4. urthshu says:

    From the article:
    “So this dumbass drives by the house at about 6a.m. while the police were there investigating. “

    He missed breakfast and decided to just pick up a little something on the way to work, I’m thinking.
    /lowbloodsugardefense

  5. kelly says:

    Nah. Let him have room and board at a certain SC Justice’s place. I think you know which one I’m talking about.

  6. B Moe says:

    Modesto police said a missing 14-year-old girl was found safe in the trunk of a car belonging to a registered sex offender.

    Is anyone truly safe while professional journalists are being paid to write sentences like this?

  7. dicentra says:

    How about a sub-dermal implant with GPS that explodes on contact with air (if they try to dig it out)?

    Or a face tattoo of the word “PERV,” but that wouldn’t be reversible in the case of false accusation.

  8. SarahW says:

    I’m on board with the shooty solution.

  9. Mikey NTH says:

    A lojack thing, haps? Like a chip embeded in the flesh? Like the fleshy part of the heart so it can’t be removed?

    Sounds like a plan to me.

  10. dre says:

    “the trunk of a car belonging to a registered sex offender.”

    I glad its registered. Shoot the balls dammit.

  11. Rick Ballard says:

    “Either that or just shoot them.”

    That’s a rather narrow view, ‘feets. I’d go with ‘execute’ over ‘shoot’. The method is rather immaterial – we need to focus on outcome here.

  12. dre says:

    I’m happy to see the castration ceremony with SCJ Kennedy 1st.

  13. urthshu says:

    They meant the car was registered.

    But, man, the changeyness is quickening, isn’t it?

  14. TmjUtah says:

    Good job, Modesto PD.

    Please laugh at the journo for me, next time you see him.

  15. apotheosis says:

    Fortunately, there are already a number of perfectly serviceable cranial implants available for this type of offender, in a wide variety of calibers.

    You never have to wonder where they are again.

  16. happyfeet says:

    I’d be happy if they were just a lot more discriminating about who they made register I think. But I guess if the courts don’t see a problem it must be justice. Carry on then.

  17. happyfeet says:

    Nice catch, B Moe.

  18. lee says:

    They aren’t worth the bullets.

    One rope and a trap door will clean out the whole registry.

    (Pervert, not car)

  19. Rick Ballard says:

    “it must be justice legal”

    Justice would involve one of those 150 gram Pb cranial implants mentioned by apotheosis. One implant, administered aurally, renders the subject very easy to find from that point forward.

  20. Mikey NTH says:

    Let me now say – That poor girl! All the terror she went through! She is safe now, but still!
    I hope she can overcome it. What am I saying? Humans are resiliant. She probably will…but still!

  21. Big D says:

    Perfect test case as to why the police pursue. Here in my neck of the woods there are some that are trying to change police policy towards high spped pursuit. There was recently an accident where some bystanders were killed. So, some want the police to not pursue at high speed or when it would be dangerous. Problem with that is you never know why the bad guys are running. A quote from a cop friend of mine, “You don’t know if they are running because of unpaid tickets or if they have a body in the trunk.” Thankfully in this case the police pursued.

  22. Big D says:

    sppd=speed

    I am not an animal! I am a typist! or not

  23. CArin -BONC says:

    Castration doesn’t work. Lead cranial implant is really the best option. They cannot be reformed. They are -as someone wrote a few days ago – damaged goods that need to be returned to the manufacturer.

  24. happyfeet says:

    No. Some people on those lists are just people. There are whole websites on this.

  25. happyfeet says:

    It’s like an issue or something.

  26. sashal says:

    imagine if that was Vermont, that guy would probably walk free..
    Carin, castration does work, where did you get this info it does not?

  27. urthshu says:

    sashal –
    is rape about sex or power?

  28. CArin -BONC says:

    I read an article a while back about how it doesn’t always work, but looking it up now it does work pretty well. But, from my brief glance it appears to be a voluntary thing. If it’s chemical (which is what it usually is) they can simply take drugs to counteract. Physical castration is the way to go – no going back.

    But, i wonder (thinking aloud) if it’s a choice thing, I would think that those who CHOSE it were those who were a bit more committed to stopping the behavior. Thus, if you castrated ’em all, the numbers wouldn’t be so much in your favor.

    As for lists – the judges have to power to know the difference between a pedophile and someone on the limits with an underage girl. I would want to know if the 60 y/o living next to me had a thing for little boys.

  29. kelly says:

    Castration does too work. Ask John Kerry.

  30. happyfeet says:

    I think the deal is that the judges don’t always have discretion. And if you think about it they’re in a pretty quintessential err on the side of caution better safe than sorry kind of place anyway.

  31. Rick Ballard says:

    “Some people on those lists are just people.”

    Are you conflating wrongful inclusion on a list with wrongful conviction? Or someone copping a plea to a lesser offense and winding up on a list after a legislative change of rationale for inclusion?

    ‘Cause the guy driving the car with the girl in the trunk deserves one in the ear. Two if he looks like a hardhead.

  32. sashal says:

    Yes Carin, that why for the repeated offenders- no volunteering, it should be enforced
    urthshu,
    I really do not know for sure, I think it is all about forbidden sexual pleasures and perverted minds, I am not so confident that it is about power thing

  33. happyfeet says:

    Oh. I don’t really know, Rick. It’s not a for real issue for me really. I hadn’t thought about the plea-copping part. More the Romeo and Juliet thing is all I know about. That and sometimes people lie about getting victimized.

  34. happyfeet says:

    Oh. Rape I think is a lot about hearing the noises they make. I’m serious. “Deaf rapist” only gets 63 hits on google.

  35. urthshu says:

    Well, the question could get complicated if you think about:
    -rape with a strap-on
    -rape with some other implement, eg. bottle, stick
    -rape between males. The most common instance is between straight men, not homosexuals [who, when they rape, will sometimes rape women].

  36. memomachine says:

    Hmmmm.

    My opinion?

    Auction off the termination rights on Ebay.

    Winner gets to shoot the bastard … until he’s dead.

  37. happyfeet says:

    It’s still all about the noises they make. I would put money on it.

  38. urthshu says:

    Should say that I’ve been a first responder to hospitals for rape and domestic violence in a previous volunteery advocacy thing. Hence the thinking about it lots, even being a male.

    I really think its more about power/dominance than anything.

  39. happyfeet says:

    For real I think it comes from a more primal iddy place than a damaged social dynamic mechanistic kind of place. Sociologists overthink this sort of thing I think. Usually using tax dollars.

  40. urthshu says:

    agreed, feets.

    ttyl

  41. Mikey NTH says:

    urthshu – Most modern statutes take care of those distinctions, if the link will take, here is Michigan’s law.

    http://vip.msu.edu/sass/MICSC.html

  42. urthshu says:

    ah, wait – mysterioso there.
    primal iddy = damaged social mechanistic, in this case. its what does the damaging.

    kthxbye

  43. urthshu says:

    mikey
    yes. All rape. Doesn’t necessarily stop it if you cut off the perp’s penis, is all I’m saying

  44. Mikey NTH says:

    And reading to the end of the thread, I see you know that.

  45. CArin -BONC says:

    When I was assaulted, the dude didn’t use his penis. I really think lead implants are the way to go.

  46. Mikey NTH says:

    And then you tell me before I can post a comment.

    Ah well.

  47. N. O'Brain says:

    Comment by kelly on 7/7 @ 7:18 pm #

    Is it true Tereeeeza has ’em in a jar on the mantel?

  48. Mikey NTH says:

    Carin – glad you made it out alive.

    The recidivism rate from a hot lead injection is nil.

  49. sashal says:

    Carin 45.
    What?!!!

  50. happyfeet says:

    Oh. I just mean it doesn’t come from like a feeling of dislocation when confronted with normative social structures and conventional power dynamics. These people are just maybe a little more animal than non-rapey people are. But it’s enough.

  51. urthshu says:

    Sorry Carin.
    Hope the thread isn’t pissing you off, etc.
    FWLIW and from what I’ve read that you’ve written, you seem to have come out stronger for surviving that.

    OK, housewrk done, time for sleep.

    Mikey – its OK by me to post all that. Makes peole think more and thats a plus.

  52. urthshu says:

    ‘feets:
    You’ve got it. I’m saying animal dominance, not social.

  53. urthshu says:

    that, and it becomes an option to rape once someone does that, like when a woman crosses the line to prostitution. A selection/choice/option/taste for it. Hence the recidivism.

  54. CArin -BONC says:

    No, it doesn’t piss me off at all. I just hate pedophiles. 10 years old, lured into an alley by a man who asked me to help him find his puppy. What a sap I was. They never found him. We always hear about the guys wrongfully on those lists. But there are a heck of a lot who SHOULD be on it, and aren’t.

    I don’t trust just anyone with my kids. One of my brother’s friends sent off my bells, and i will never leave them alone with him.

  55. sashal says:

    I am with you here 100%, don’t trust anybody with my kids also…..

  56. Lisa says:

    I have heard stories about the sex offender list that made me feel ambivalent. But then I read a story like this and I say fuck it, keep the damn thing if you can save a kid. Eh. It is hard to be rational when it comes to this stuff.

  57. Mikey NTH says:

    It is hard to be rational because the crime is not rational.

  58. ThomasD says:

    The problem is not the keeping of lists. The problem is that we release pedophiles in the first place. Thus necessitating the keeping of lists. Child predators need to be destroyed.

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,167234,00.html

  59. Big D says:

    #54 Carin

    That hurts my heart to hear what happened to you. I have to believe that he will get his just rewards, in this life or the next.

  60. Ouroboros says:

    Modesto, CA… Scott Peterson’s old home.. Now this guy.. Must be something in the water.

  61. lee says:

    Yeah Ourboros, it’s strange a city of 200,000 people would have murderers and rapists.

  62. Ouroboros says:

    “it’s strange a city of 200,000 people would have murderers and rapists.”

    … and National News Class murderers and rapists at that.. Quite a feather in Modesto’s cap, I’d say..

  63. JHoward says:

    Or we could outlaw guys.

    Oh, wait…

  64. Cincinnatus says:

    Make them deaf, then.

  65. Girlify them. For the rest of their lives, let them pee out of a hole in their groin where their dick used to be.

  66. jon says:

    California’s law is stupid in that it doesn’t allow for the people to know what it is that a particular convicted sex offender did. It could be a guy who peed in public when drunk at 2am or a guy who kidnapped, raped, and skinned alive an entire preschool class and its parents as well. Fix that, and this kind of incident is made much less likely. Plus, please note that not all sex offenders are child molesters. Shoot ’em all? Which type of them? All? Some? Who chooses? Plus, won’t that make it much more likely that their victims will be killed? Death is hard to recover from for the victims as well.

    There’s conflicting information about whether treatments can work. Some therapy can do wonders, some minds are too warped, some people just don’t want to change, and some do. Changing the body sounds so simple, but really it’s not their male-ness but their misuse of it that is the issue. Taking away the parts won’t alleviate the behavior, plus we don’t really want them having a choice of restrooms post-operation, do we? Think about it: if the sex offender registry says a forty-year-old man and the house has only a middle-aged woman, someone might not be so worried about letting their child play in the nice lady’s yard….

  67. every time this issue comes up… Capital Punishment… my faith is tested. Instinct tells me they should be killed straight away and have their case forwarded to a higher court for adjudication. My faith prevents me from promoting this viewpoint (you know, for consistency’s sake and all). Nevertheless, I would like 10 minutes with a guy like this and a Louisville Slugger. And steel-toes boots for the eye sockets.

  68. we could call the Louisville Slugger “the Persuader” or something else near as menacing. I would talk to it while beating this perv to a bloody mess… but still very much alive. Additionally, it might be fun to put him in the trunk of my 2001 Civic, all duct-taped an’ all… with a big, heavy, and wide open tool box to keep him company. It would be interesting to then go “4-wheeling” in a parking lot with many speed bumps. The sound of all manner of tools and rusty tool box corners and such sliding about in back and finding their mark about the head and face of this shit-bag would be quite satisfying. I would then like to strap him into a very robust wheelchair and kick him down a flight of concrete stairs… but, again, I try not to think of these things too much.

  69. Cowboy says:

    I’m with you, Enoch. Capital punishment tests me as well–mostly I reconcile it by thinking this is exactly what a mandatory life sentence without hope of parole, ever, is for.

    There are people who are just too evil to live with the rest of us.

  70. Cowboy says:

    …but that’s in no way meant to diminish the pain their victims endure. Surely, if anyone deserves Capital Punishment, the monsters who hurt little girls like this one and our Carin are at the top of that particular list.

  71. B Moe says:

    I agree with Happy about the List being too broad now, there are too many people on their for getting caught with a 16 year old girlfriend when they were 19 type of thing, but my main issue is for the ones who truly need to be on the list- and that is why are they turned loose at all? If someone is an incurable, pathological danger to children, quarantine at the minimum, extermination at the maximum, but get them off the streets and away from our kids.

  72. B Moe says:

    *on there*
    need coffee

  73. Lisa says:

    Agrees with Carin: Chemical castration might work on some people who are committed to stopping their compulsion. But as rape is mostly about the violence and subjugation and less about just “getting off”, it would probably not help the rest of them.

    I have a family member (a spectacularly stupid individual) who, after being warned by a judge THREE times to stay away from a 15 year old girl he started seeing when he was 18, continued to see the girl (who was also an idiot). The judge, a very sympathetic man, kindly told them that if they even waited until she was 16 the state of California would probably cut them a little slack. But no, these two triple-chromosomes continued to see each other until my brilliant relative got two years and a permanent place on the sex offender registry. I feel bad that he has this following him around forever and ever. But he is a fucking idiot. Hopefully this will prevent anyone from procreating with the moron.

  74. happyfeet says:

    But they were in love.

  75. ProggHero says:

    I CAN’T QUIT YOU!!!

  76. CArin -BONC says:

    Ok, not to complain, but I have to go to work in a bit (I’m working one day a week, starting today) and I don’t have a new PW thread to get me going.

    I’m being a whiner, aren’t I? I don’t think my boss (my hubby) is gonna let me check the intertubes during the day. Slave-driver. But, he is going to take me to lunch.

  77. Lisa says:

    #74, 75: LOL! It is never too early in the morning for smartassery on PW.

  78. Teacher's Pet says:

    Actually, I believe the hospital was the UC Davis Medical Center, which is in Sacramento.

    Very glad this came out so much better than these things often do!

  79. cybrludite says:

    With regards to child molesters, I say save some money. Secure them someplace sunny, peforate their intestines without hitting any major blood vessels, and hook them up with an IV drip so they don’t die easily ( comparatively, anyhow… ) of dehydration. Should take them the better part of a week to die.

  80. baldilocks says:

    My mother was molested when she was three years old. (Through God’s grace, she’s relatively sane.)

    Funny, I was thinking almost the same thing as #79.

  81. LunarTuna says:

    I’m happy to see the castration ceremony with SCJ Kennedy 1st.

    Nothing there to cut!

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