DA seeks hate crime charges in NM swastika case

[Divine Discontent]

Source: AP

FARMINGTON, N.M.(AP)


Prosecutors in New Mexico say they plan to pursue hate crime charges against three men accused of branding a swastika on a mentally challenged man's arm with a heated metal clothes hanger.

Jesse Sanford, William Hatch and Paul Beebe _ all in their 20s _ were charged Friday with kidnapping, aggravated battery and other felonies.

The three white men are accused of forcing the 22-year-old victim from the Navajo Indian reservation into a car April 29, and driving him to an apartment to abuse him. Police say the trio also shaved a swastika into the man's hair and drew degrading words and pictures on his body with permanent marker.

All three suspects are being held with bond set at $150,000 cash for each. It's unclear if they have attorneys.

Read more: http://cfnews13.com/News/National/2010/5/9/da_seeks_hate_crime_charges_in_nm_swastika_case.html

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If found guilty, should they melt the key after locking them up, or give them all vasectomies?

We cannot afford these violent fiends, who would kidnap and torture a mentally-challenged person, having children. They'll either abuse the kids eventually, or teach them to be just as vile.

[midnight]

1. K&R

[Mopar151]

2. Losers...

Add up their IQ's, it wouldn't come up to room temperature.

[SemperEadem]

3. since they have such an affinity for hot metal branding irons

they should be treated to the Edward II treatment...

[Judi Lynn]

4. You Tube news video: Farmington man branded with swastika

http://youtube.com/watch?v=B2lvEf13sn8

[Divine Discontent]

5. Thanks for posting that video. That poor man, that was so sick what they did to him.

[Kurska]

6. "or give them all vasectomies" wow, way to go.

They burned a swastikas on someones arm and you are the one who comes off sounding like a Nazi. They do too of course, but you're advocating the same ideals, removing the ability of the undesirables to breed.

NO EUGENICS EVER.

[Divine Discontent]

7. I disagree.

I am against capital punishment. I am not against people who torture others by burning their flesh having their privates snipped. They're a threat to civility and shouldn't be allowed to ever have children, as they've proven they have a dud brain and a weak sense of respect for life. It's my most extreme stance on anything, but when someone does things like kidnaps someone and takes them somewhere to inflict massive pain on them and bludgeon their flesh with a hot piece of metal - I think keeping them from having children is the best thing we can do for society, and I feel the same thing for kidnappers that hurt the victim as I feel for rapists, murderers, and other violent perps. They shouldn't be allowed to mentor a child.

[Kurska]

8. Oh boy, lets have the government start neutering people, that oughta end well.

Frankly, I thought we had moved beyond the point of mutilating someone's body because they committed a crime. I support abortions for the very same reason, the government has no business policing the reproductive rights of their citizens.

If their crime is sufficiently severe they won't be mentoring a child, they will be in prison. If they are released from prison, the government is stating they are now fit to exist in society. How can you say "Well this person is clearly dangerous so lets not let them have children, but lets throw them out into a society where they can harm children"? No double jeopardy, you do your time and then you're free, not mutilated at the whim of the state.

[boppers]

9. "start" neutering people?

We (the US) invented that shit, and were still doing it as recently as the 80's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization#United_States

[Kurska]

10. Wrong then, wrong now.

And yeah, Sweden did aswell and so did nazi germany. Disgusting portion of human history that is, lets not relive the past.