IMHO #1

Once in a great while I come upon a story that makes me want to kill someone. Recently, this was exactly the case. After reading an article that my girlfriend stumbled upon and decided to show me, I literally wanted to jump up, find the man whom the article refers to, and simply end his life. Of course I did not do this -- one reason is because the man lives in Poland and the second reason is that I do not want to spend time in prison.

The story that I am referring to is about a man who was recently arrested in Poland and accused of holding his daughter captive for six years -- repeatedly raping and abusing her, forcing her to give birth to two children. The police caught the man at a train station where he was allegedly trying to escape abroad. The investigation began when the 21-year-old daughter of the man approached police with her mother and began talking with the policewomen about her incredibly horrid ordeal. Amongst other things, the daughter says that she was raped, beaten, and kept as a slave in the basement of his home.

Much of this case is still unknown such as whether or not the mother had any knowing of what was going on or how the daughter managed to escape.

When I first heard this story, my blood simply boiled. How could any human being possibly be so sadistic, crude, evil, disgusting, impassioned, and down right sick? Sadly this is not the first time I have heard of something like this. There was a similar case to this one which happened not too long ago. Another man -- Joseph Fritzi is accused of holding his daughter captive for over 24 years and fathering six children incestuously.

How many times do we have to hear the same stories before something is done about this. How could not one person have known what was going on. Maybe I am being naive to think that this could have been prevented, but my heart breaks every time I think about what these poor girls must have had to go through and the awful memories I'm sure they will carry with them for the rest of their lives. I have always been the type of person who feels that sick, evil criminals such as these men, should receive equal amounts of punishments that actually FIT the crimes they committed. To me, jail is not enough. Honestly, I don't even believe the death penalty is enough punishment. That lets them off too easy. I would like to see them tortured in various ways and have to hurt and feel as much, if not more pain as those poor girls did.

Too many people these days are allowed to get off because they plead insanity or that they weren't in the right "state of mind" when they committed such crimes as enslaving young children. Well I am definitely in the right "state of mind" when I say that these people should get what they deserve! I have grown up in a world where crime rates have never been higher. Although these crimes did not happen in the U.S., it is not as if many similar ones do not happen here every day. I wish that I could fly overseas and try and comfort those poor girls who most likely did not know any better. If I could meet with them, I would make sure to let them know how important they are to this world and how much a difference they can still make. I would tell them that their fathers do not deserve to ever be in their presence again and they will still be able to have a family that loves them.

In today's day and age. Loneliness is a scary thing. Just imagine how terrified those young girls were trapped underground not knowing if they would ever be free. This is not some horror movie that we get enjoyment out of. This is real life and we need to be aware of that.

Sources:

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/09/poland.captive.daughter/index.html

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24324295-5006003,00.html