The investigation showed that the young child "suffered broken bones, severe bruising, and was the victim of sexual violence," according to a press release

The investigation showed that the young child “suffered broken bones, severe bruising, and was the victim of sexual violence,” according to a press release

A 13-month-old child was allegedly raped and physically abused by a Pennsylvania police offer.

Steven Kyle Cugini, a member of the York City Police Department, was arrested without incident on Tuesday, April 16, following an investigation by the Pennsylvania State Police, Lykens Station, and Lykens Criminal Investigation Unit.

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    3 months ago

    News like this shocks me but then I do that thing we do when we hear bad news and see who’s responsible. Like a bad stereotype, it’s some authoritarian who votes conservative and wants special treatment.

  • HybridSarcasm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    616·
    3 months ago

    Baby…a 13-month-old child is a baby. This degenerate raped and mauled a baby. No trial. No due process straight to the chair.

    • Transient Punk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      401·
      3 months ago

      No trial. No due process…

      You should be ashamed to have typed that. I understand your frustration and anger (I fully agree with you there), but without a trial or due process, I could just say “@HybridSarcasm@lemmy.world raped a 13 month old” and now you’re going to die.

      I hope you can see the problem

      • Dkarma@lemmy.worldEnglish
        325·
        3 months ago

        That’s not at all what happened here. You can argue for due process without false equivalence.

      • johan@feddit.nlEnglish
        19·
        3 months ago

        I find it so strange the US still has the death penalty and to read people on lemmy advocate for it surprisingly frequently, despite its rather progressive user base.

        • Pronell@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          3 months ago

          That’s the problem with living in a society that has a death penalty… it leads to one having thoughts about how it should be effectively used.

          Y’know, since we have it. Can’t let it go to waste.

          • HessiaNerd@lemmy.worldEnglish
            8·
            3 months ago

            I’m in the US and I’m not for the death penalty. I think states (Texas, Georgia, etc) have a twisted judicial system and get it wrong too often.

            This sort of case is what stops me from full throated opposition. This person should not exist.

            • Pronell@lemmy.worldEnglish
              71·
              3 months ago

              So keep them in the cage if that’s what you feel is necessary. Revenge still isn’t worth it.

              I get it though, I’m not impervious either.

              • CaptPretentious@lemmy.worldEnglish
                52·
                3 months ago

                I’m really not in favor of my taxes going to a for-profit prison so this guy can eat and sleep for the rest of his life. And somewhere, someone is profiting off of it because he committed a crime.

                • gl4d10@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  3 months ago

                  but the market needs slavery to survive, isn’t a mcdouble expensive enough already?

                • Pronell@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  3 months ago

                  The appeals process really is more expensive. And then in the case he can be actually proven innocent, he isn’t dead.

            • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              3·
              3 months ago

              I agree, but I have two problems.

              • Innocent people go to jail all the time, including those who seem overwhelmingly guilty at first.
              • If sexually abusing a child is enough to have them put to death, then others will simply kill their victim and dispose of them - the crime has the same penalty after all.

              So I can’t support the death penalty, but I can fully support removing them from society entirely, keeping them completely confined for the rest of their life.

              • HybridSarcasm@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                3 months ago

                If sexually abusing a child is enough to have them put to death, then others will simply kill their victim and dispose of them - the crime has the same penalty after all.

                This is an interesting point. The justice system has intentionally designed the punishments in a tiered way to help avoid exactly this. I don’t have any data about its effectiveness, but it seems like a smart idea.