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Texas father rescues kidnapped 15-year-old daughter after tracking her phone’s location
(www.theguardian.com)
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The restraint that man showed to not beat the everloving shit out of the guy who kidnapped and presumably intended to rape his daughter is just incredible.
Friend they are in TEXAS, I'm surprised shithead didn't catch a clip to the dome.
Magazine, but agreed.
I mean, people still hunt with bolt-actions, so it's plausible he could catch either lol
It's Texas it is entirely possible for them to be using a clip fed gun with an integrated magazine like some bolt actions use, the M1 grande uses, and the oh so glorious Mauser Broomhandle.
Unless he was just casually rocking a M1 Garand, I suppose. That has an internal magazine, and the clip simply holds the rounds in position.
I’m not surprised he got his kid out first, I’m surprised he called the cops instead of going back there alone.
Yeahhhhh, had he gone back alone, that probably would have been an easy murder charge. However, I can't say I would blame him, nor do I believe I would have the same restraint he showed.
IMO he'd get a plea bargain. To wit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Jeffery_Doucet
That's still a lot of time
He didn't do any prison time, it was all suspended sentencing
Oh I thought he served seven years because they suspended a longer prison sentence. Cool then.
A suspended sentence is basically "be good during probation and you won't go to jail."
Suspended, in the "hanging over your head" sense.
Suspended sentences work so that if you trigger the activation of the suspended sentence during the probation time, the whole length of the suspended sentence starts rolling. Therefore, if at 4 years and 11 months of a 5-year probation you do a crime that triggers the activation of your suspended sentence, you sit 7 years. And if you commit the same crime on day 8 of the probation, you still sit the same 7 years.
At least over here in Finland it can also work so that the suspended sentence is only a couple of months for some crimes, but the probation is still 4 years or 6 years or whatever. People often read that "damn, only two months and they are free", but in reality it means you must spend 5-ish years having to be mindful of not doing any similar-ish, even much less serious, crime or you'll find yourself sitting behind bars for those two months plus whatever the repeated offence carries.
He has a child.
He knows what it would mean for the child if he sat years behind bars. That changes the calculation quite a bit!
A loving parent won't get themself in a jail unless it's something that benefits the child enough to cover for losing a parent for many years.