Here is a picture of the Petit family.
That’s 17-year-old Heyley Petit, 11-year-old Michaela Petit, and 48-year-old Janet Hawke-Petit, wife of 50-year-old Dr. William Petit, a a noted specialist in diabetes and endocrinology and the medical director of the Joslin Diabetes Center Affiliate at The Hospital of Central Connecticut in New Britain.
Janet Petit worked as a nurse and co-director of a local boarding school.
Hayley started a charity which was named “Hayley’s Hope.” Through her charity, she raised over $50,000 to fight multiple sclerosis, which her mother had been diagnosed with 8 years prior. She was also co-editor in chief of the school newspaper, co-captain of the crew team and a member of the basketball and cross country teams.
She had been accepted to Dartmouth.
They were a happy family.
This is Joshua Komisarjevsky.
26-year-old Joshua was born to teenage parents who gave him up as a child. He was adopted by the wealthy Komisarjevsky family, whose lineage includes famous theater director Theodore Komisarjevsky.
His adopted parents are rather well-to-do and live two minutes from the Petit family.
Always a distant child, Joshua Komisarjevsky committed his first burglary at the age of 14. He’s been in and out of jails ever since.
He has a 5-year-old daughter, which he was given sole custody of.
At one point, Joshua Komisarjevsky met Steven Hayes, probably while they were living at the same halfway house.
This is 44-year-old Steven Hayes.
Hayes’ criminal record dates back to 1980 and includes more than two dozen convictions for burglary, larceny, marijuana possession, theft of a firearm and escape from custody.
On July 23rd, at 2 in the morning, Joshua Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes were out on parole after serving time for burglary. They reported to a parole officer on a weekly basis and both had full-time jobs.
On July 23rd, at 3 in the morning, Joshua Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes kicked in the door to the Petit residence, expecting to do a quick burglary job and split the proceeds.
The problem was, the Petit family was home at the time.
The two career felons beat down Dr. Petit, giving him head injuries that would send him to the hospital.
Steven Haynes tied up and raped Mrs. Petit. Joshua Komisarjevsky tied up the two girls and raped little 11-year-old Michaela Petit.
Once they were done, they waited with the family, having their fun until the banks opened in the morning.
They arranged to have Mrs. Petit accompany one of them to the bank to make a withdrawal of $15,000. During this bank visit, Mrs. Petit was able to alert the teller that something was wrong. The teller called police, who went to the Petit house to check things out.
Taking Mrs. Petit back to her house, Joshua Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes strangled and killed her.
Setting the house on fire to cover their tracks, they left the rest of the Petit family, still alive, to die in the fire.
Dr. Petit made it out. The two girls died of smoke inhalation.
Both Komisarjevsky and Hayes were caught when they rammed three police vehicles as the two were leaving the Petit house while driving the Petit family’s SUV.
So what do you think should be done with Mr. Komisarjevsky and Mr. Hayes?
Do you think Restorative Justice would work for Dr. William Petit?
Do you think a nice long sit-down conversation with the career criminals who, while out on parole, invaded his house, raped his wife and daughters, killed them, and set his house on fire would make him feel better?
The two have been hit with six counts of capital felony murder, among other charges, such as sexual assault.
The prosecutor is pursuing the death penalty. That’s probably the best choice.
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So who are the tools who voted no to hell?
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That is sickening. Bring back burnings at the stake! Let them feel what those two girls felt.
Weird thing is, Steven Haynes looks a lot like my old drama teacher!
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They deserve to be sent there immediately!
They burned the two daughters alive, these bastards deserve to live the girls’ fate forever!
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cassandra claire reply on July 13th, 2008:
can’t you read, idiot?
the daughters died before they were burned. of smoke inhalation. they didn’t burn alive. stop ranting before you read.
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Max The Cat reply on July 13th, 2008:
Does it really matter dear? One of then raped the little girl…she WAS alive when they set the place on fire, although you’re right about the smoke inhalation. Her older sister had already been strangled to death, along with mom. I live a few miles from where this happened, and people are still having a hard time letting it go, so I understand Frederick’s anger, especially when you consider that the judge went through the trouble of putting a note in Komisarjevsky’s file to the parole board stating his opinion that the kid was on his way to violent crime and shouldn’t be paroled. Too bad the board never saw that report. There’s lots of reasons to rant about this case.
Max
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The mother’s name was Jennifer, not Janet. A friend of a friend.
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sick sick sick sick sick! why do these thugs ever get released from jail!
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Yes they deserve to die. Death by leathal injection is not harsh enough. Tied up, wrapped w ith duct tape from head to toe, dous with gas, and slowly let them burn to death.
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Death is too good for them. They need to be tortured and then injections. Let em get raped in prison and beaten first!
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I have been by the house. The amount of damage done could not have been done by ametuers or in the heat of the moment, these guys are pros, which makes my wonder how many other cases have they gotten away with?
While technically they deserve a defense, these POS are way beyond any possible defense based in common sense.
Atty Groggins is going to be piad by the State of CT to defend Joshua. She has never returned my email answering my question as to what her “reduced rate of pay” is going to be.
I beleive that Atty Groggins also should be sent to hell. There are so many other worthy casues and the simple fact is that the state want to raise taxes! The only suicide watch these 2 shuld get is a camera so that the rest of us can watch and enjoy! But the Attys feel that these 2 have rights. Reduce their pay to that of a Wal*Mart employee and I am sure that the attys would kill these 2 themselves so they could move on to higher paying cases!
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who ever voted no ..they are fucking sick..these men deserve the worst possible treatment they can get!! all i can say is god bless Mr. Petit and Rip to those three beautiful women.
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Those two shits should be subjected to the worst kind of experiments done for human research and sent to a concentration camp like Auschwitz. Following an excruciating, slow, and deplorable death, they should be tormented in hell for all eternity.
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Today is June 16th 2008 and these POS are going to court today. They had the balls to enter “not guilty” pleas. Gotta be the advice of the attys - who else is going to profit by keeping these scum bags alive?
The GP in CT want to kill them because parole was suspended for some time because of these two. I hope the GP gets these two and their lawyers!
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———-Do Joshua Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes deserve Hell?—————
The REAL problem is, you people sound just as psychotic as the monsters who commited this crime. Wake the Fvck up, would you people?!
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Max The Cat reply on July 21st, 2008:
no need wrote:
“….you people sound just as psychotic as the monsters who commited this crime….”
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Well, I can’t speak for anyone else, but you’re
probably right about me.
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I definitely agree that what these two men did was awful, disgusting, and totally wrong but no one, not even crazy murderers deserve to die. Everyone deserves to live no matter what they’ve done. I believe in forgiveness and prayer, so I will pray that these men and others like them will change their ways and feel guilt and repent. And everyone can contradict me if they want but I’m sticking with my morales and ideas. Wanting someone dead and hoping that they suffer is just as bad as actually killing them. And yeah don’t get me wrong, I’m pretty upset about what happened to the Petit girls, it’s just that I believe the only person who can decide someone’s death is God and we all need to remember that.
God bless the Petit family, your in my thoughts and prayers.
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Mazzi reply on August 3rd, 2008:
Judy - though your compassion is nice, your thinking is flawed. First - you say that “everyone deserves to live…” what about the victims? Didn’t they deserve to live?
Then you say “the only person (person?) who can decide death is God…” well, in this case, the death of three innocent people was decided by two criminals. Unless you are one of those people who believe that God is responsible for killing them.
If you believe in God, then you must also believe that he will not punish the victims. And if your theory is correct (that we should not kill murdering scumballs) then they should get no extra punishment from God for being killed.
So, I ask you to just step aside. I will cheerfully flip the switch on these scumbags, and happily face God later, and see what He has to say.
See? Simple solution - the creeps are gone, you are off the hook - and if anyone is gonna take heat from God, it’ll be me. Personally, I believe God would understand, but if He doesn’t - oh well! It would be well worth it to protect the vulnerable here on earth. Even if means spending MY eternity in hell. It’s a risk I am willing to take.
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Bob Saget reply on August 12th, 2008:
Well said Mazzi!!!
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I agree with Mazzi’s comment too. This is not the kind of world to have that “oh we forgive you” attitude on a topic like this. Those two less-than human beings deserve every bad thing coming to them. If they’re are out of the picture, less people will suffer. The truth is they don’t deserve to live, because they were given the gift of life, used it for evil, and now it needs to be taken away because the world is in fact a better place when they are not breathing.
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