[Cerek the Barbaric]

Originally posted by Arnabas: Well, I am joining this discussion a little late and only just heard the story. I've also skipped over the most recent posts in favour of writing my own reply. As someone who is expecting a child in a few months, I am unable to conceive of a person actually doing this. I can only say that this "man" is not human. Like Cerek (I think...) said, anyone who harms a child in ANY way desevres the same treatment threefold. I can feel no sympathy for such a monster.

Yes, Arnabas, it was I who made that comment.

As enraging as this story is, I actually heard of one FAR worse a few years ago. There was a news story about a couple that had actually taken their infant and toddler out into the woods and left them to die because they didn't want the responsibility of raising them. To make matters worse, they set them out in separate locations. Not that there was much they could do to help each other, but they were even deprived the comfort of each others company during their last horrific hours of life.

MY brand of justice would be to take the parents into the Rockies shortly before the winter hibernation season, strip them down to their underwear, and break both of their legs (to make them as "mobile" as their infant was). Then leave them to fend for themselves.

I also would strap Susan Smith securely into the backseat of a car and send it into a lake.

Judge that as you will.....but anybody that would inflict such a horrifying death on an innocent, helpless child deserves to suffer the exact same fate in my book.