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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums10 yr old girl found dismembered in bathtub. Police say mother looked for men to rape her daughter.
Albuquerque Police identified in the girls assailants her mother, Michelle Martens, 35, her mothers boyfriend, Fabian Gonzales and Gonzales cousin, Jessica Kelley.
According to a crime scene report, the body of Victoria Martens was discovered in a smoke-filled apartment, wrapped in a burning blanket and stashed in the bathtub. Police state, the child had no pulse, her left leg was almost completely cut off and both of her arms were missing. When police raided the apartment, they also discovered two adults with minor injuries, and captured a third who attempted to escape after jumping off a balcony.
In interviews with girls mother, she admitted that her daughter was given methamphetamine to calm her down, and that Gonzales had sex with her before choking her to death. Gonzales has denied the accusation, saying Kelley killed the girl by stabbing and then dismembering her.
According to the police that night was likely not the first night the young girl was raped, with her mother admitting that she sought out strangers online and at her place of work to sexually assault her daughter before admitting that didnt do it for money and that she enjoyed watching.
Police state that Martens used the dating website Plenty of Fish to look for men and that its possible that she also sought men to rape Victorias younger sibling.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/mother-of-new-mexico-10-year-old-found-dismembered-sought-out-men-to-rpe-her-daughter-police/
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Lucky Luciano
(11,254 posts)Initech
(100,068 posts)ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts).....from a plane.
GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)Good lord how lucky am I to have the fortune of growing up with caring parents in the middle class of this country
Moostache
(9,895 posts)Scum like this make me want to puke.
I have a 10-year old daughter and the idea of people actually doing these things to an innocent child like that is horrifying beyond words.
The greatest punishment of all for these types is time - time taken away from them doing anything other than staring at the walls of their cage. Life in prison without parole, general population accommodations and an announcement of their crimes should ensure that they are treated appropriately on the inside and may they never live to see another free day for a very, very long time.
pansypoo53219
(20,975 posts)+ great for disposal. these 3 can be alive. stick them in a tiger cage.
oneshooter
(8,614 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)None.
Coventina
(27,115 posts)Then, I'm going to hide this thread, because I just can't take the horror of it all.
What that little girl's life must have been like.
It's times like these when I dearly, dearly hope that there IS some sort of afterlife, where love and healing can take place for those who have been hurt so badly in this life.
jonno99
(2,620 posts)JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)It has nothing to do with politics but threads like this sure draw a lot of attention, don't they? Sad.
alittlelark
(18,890 posts)Meth is a horrible drug.....
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Last edited Thu Sep 15, 2016, 11:35 AM - Edit history (1)
Edit. Just checked. The answer is no.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)What does being a predominately Christian or not dating site have to do with it?
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)As we're simply playing with generalities to better validate our biases, the vast majority of crimes on the planet are committed by males.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)See how that works?
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)All he did was (correctly) demonstrate that Christianity is a poor indicator of lawfulness.
I guess it pays to actually read the post before you reply to it. Go figure.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)Especially when they feel their privilege being challenged.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)whathehell
(29,067 posts)so maybe we should rid ourselves of them.
whathehell
(29,067 posts)might have something to do with it, wouldn't you say?
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)Wouldn't you agree?
astral
(2,531 posts)It comes across as an intent to link religion with atrocities.
whathehell
(29,067 posts)The militant atheists here are vigilant in their quest for hooks on which to hang their Religion is Evil case, and not infrequently, their zeal outweighs their judgment.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,367 posts)whathehell
(29,067 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,367 posts)Because your post above is fucking HILARIOUS
whathehell
(29,067 posts)..It's always good to be able to laugh at yourself.
The level of cluelessness on the part of some here IS fucking HILARIOUS -- I agree!
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)whathehell
(29,067 posts)cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)I don't know why I thought that it was this one. I don't know a lot about dating sites.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)I can see the link.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)malaise
(268,968 posts)Throw away all the keys - they are depraved
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)there's really not a good argument for these monsters being allowed to remain alive for 5 more decades.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)And I even sympathise in cases like this, but capital punishment has never been shown to be any deterrent whatsoever and it would certainly not have prevented this Meth-induced horror. It's also much more expensive than keeping these monsters alive for 5 more decades.
All that would be left is vengeance and we, as a civilised society, should be above that. That said, they should never be free again, of course.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)beyond redemption that their lives literally have no value to the rest of society."
Waste of resources to feed them and provide medical care, etc.
Calculating
(2,955 posts)Let's not put the blame on meth here. Meth can put people in a bad mental state, but it doesn't cause you to go online looking for people to rape and kill your child while you watch. That's pure demented evil and shows premeditation went into this. If some meth junky freaked out and threw their baby in the microwave that would be horrific, but at least there wasn't premeditation. This woman WANTED to watch her little girl get raped and killed. It wasn't even for drugs or money. That's all on her.
whatthehey
(3,660 posts)The (only) real benefit of execution is that it alone has a perfect record at preventing recidivism. Making the DP about the enormity of the crime or the sympathetic nature of the victim pushes it into the revenge territory opponents have built as a strawman. How likely are these folks to kill again? There really isn't enough info to even do an armchair psychiatry pass at guessing, but to me that's the only question we should ask when considering execution. Crimes like this certainly suggest an almost total lack of empathy and restraint, so it's not impossible they are likely to kill again given the chance, but there's also the opportunity of a defenseless victim and the possibility of treatable drug-fueled violence.
I have not much sympathy for them to say the least, and have no problem with them never seeing freedom again, but we shouldn't fall into the trap of making the DP about the details of the crime committed (young victim, splashy method, easy emotional outrage generator) rather than the crimes prevented. Keeping them locked up punishes them. Killing them should only be done to save the loss of better lives.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)life in prison and however many years that is of intensely studying/psychoanalyzing them to help learn why people come to such a depraved sate. This lady wasn't born a child-rapist and murderer. Something brought her there. How will we ever learn anything if we just dump all the subjects in a landfill?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)but why? we can't start to learn how to stop it unless we know all the ways it happens.
We know a lot of them now but we should never stop trying to learn more.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)Look, I know you want to gut that piece of shit with a rusty knife. I get it. I won't cry if it happens. But I'm not willing to sponsor state murder. Simple as that. Psychiatrists can study them and find shit out. I want to find shit out more than I want to kill people.
Lucky Luciano
(11,254 posts)They'll be eliminated in no time. Won't even have to deal with the appeals process.
Calculating
(2,955 posts)Cases like this are why nobody will ever convince me that the death penalty should be repealed. There are some TRULY evil subhuman monsters out there who are defective and need to be returned to sender. It's an insult to the memory of the victim to let these pieces of trash continue breathing and fantasizing about their depraved acts.
Or, just put them in general population in prison and let everyone know what they did. I suspect the problem would be solved in a few weeks.
ronnie624
(5,764 posts)Marengo
(3,477 posts)In the public square.
Calculating
(2,955 posts)It's not like this case was even a 'heat of the moment' thing where they were all messed up on drugs. This case involved active premeditation. At no point did the mother stop to think "This is pretty messed up, maybe I should get some help or something." And WTF is wrong with the couple who volunteered to get involved? Nobody had any sort of "This is horrific, maybe I should do something" moment? It's like the perfect trifecta of 3 demonically evil individuals.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)level of depravity. I can barely comprehend what they did. That poor little girl. What hell she must have gone through in her short little life. I hope she is at peace now.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)I would not object to something "cruel and unusual" for these demons.
I think I'm going to be sick. That poor little girl.
still_one
(92,187 posts)example
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)May they spend the rest of their miserable lives in extreme isolation.
They forfeited their right to have anything to do with any other humans.
MFM008
(19,808 posts)The state should never kill.
A lynch mob perhaps.
Ravenous rabid wolves.
Dr. Phibes...
This is one they could privatize.
Initech
(100,068 posts)womanofthehills
(8,703 posts)she was only out of jail for 4 days when she did this - NM papers said she raped a woman with an object while she was in jail. So she was a big sicko with or without meth. She was the one who dismembered the poor child.
Dorian Gray
(13,493 posts)that poor poor girl. What a horror filled life she led.