Man, I totally agree with everything you said. And sadly, we share some things in common pertaining to certain experiences in our childhood. And let’s leave it at that for now. I will only say that I get it…I know exactly where you’re coming from, and how much it fucks you up.

If someone harmed my child, or killed them things would reach critical mass in record time. I would lose it completely, and if I got my hands on the person responsible it would not be a quick easy death. They would most likely spend a great deal of time in my basement slowly being tortured to death. The reality of a conviction – if I were caught- I can not predict. I would imagine a jury would have some sympathy for a mother, and I too would throw myself onto the floor begging for mercy.

Doing actual time wouldn’t be my biggest fear, nor my biggest reason to NOT go about these actions. My greatest fear second only to something bad happening to my children is the thought of being away from them. – Even one year would be unbearable. And I couldn’t imagine anyone else raising them. – They both of course have a steady, stable, and quite frankly excellent father, and incredible grandparents…so that would weigh heavily with me.

It would most likely be impossible for me to just do nothing. – I just don’t know.
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PS: Mine didn’t go to prison unfortunately. But he did die and that is good enough. – I suppose.

If I was on a jury helping to decide a case where a mother killed the rapist of her child, I’d be hard-pressed to blame her or to be convinced she was sane when she did it. I’d go nuts if such a thing happened to my child. Any parent would. Temporary Insanity would be easy to believe in such a case.

Waiting would work too, if he was locked away from harming other children. Rest assured, the perp wouldn’t get off free and be alive to enjoy it. If the law didn’t put him away forever, I’d find a way to do it myself.

And as you say, either way I hope you never have to know what you’d do!

If someone molested my child I couldn’t roll the dice and take the risk of going to prison, because that would be a time when my child needed me most. – I would most likely wait it out if possible, and do something at a later date.

Either way I hope I never have to know.

It seems the law is unable to help even if the system knows about the person, and this isn’t the kind of thing we should ignore. If someone is that dangerous and there’s no legal means to protect children from harm, no sane adult should hesitate to remove the monster. Usually I try not to promote vigilante justice. In fact, this is the one time I think I’m all for it. If it wasn’t my kid, I’d find a way to subdue the monster and let the parents have their way with him. THAT would be just.