This guy is a fucking hero.
Details continue to emerge, and we cannot know for sure what happened, but this case features such grotesque apparent injustices that, without indulging in unwarranted speculation, and assuming the truth of what we know so far, it does seem to constitute part of a larger pattern of attack against parents in general and fathers in particular.
According to The Washington Times, 36-year-old Aaron Spencer of Lonoke County, Arkansas, faces murder charges after allegedly shooting and killing 67-year-old Michael Fosler, whom Spencer found in a vehicle with his 14-year-old daughter.
Incredibly, authorities had already arrested Fosler in July on charges of stalking and sexually assaulting the girl. Fosler then posted a $50,000 bond and went free.
According to Heather Spencer, the accused father’s wife, Fosler faced pending felony charges and a December court date.
“Our family did not know this monster,” Mrs. Spencer said. “He just appeared in a place where our child should have been safe and got access to her phone number. And that’s all it took.”
The alleged grooming and rape of the teenage girl occurred over the summer. Mrs. Spencer identified Fosler as the boyfriend of a family friend.
According to Fox News, Mrs. Spencer wrote on Facebook that Fosler had a “no contact” order.
Around 1:10 a.m. on Oct. 8, however, Mr. Spencer reported the girl missing, according to the Times. Then, on their way to the Spencers’ home, Lonoke County Sheriff’s Office deputies learned that the father had discovered his daughter in Fosler’s car and that Mr. Spencer had apparently shot the alleged kidnapper and rapist dead.
“We absolutely called 911 during the entire event,” Mrs. Spencer wrote, per Fox. “We had no idea this man was in contact with our child again. He was waiting 6-9 felonies for what he did, not 2. He was looking at the rest of his pathetic life in jail, and our daughter was the only witness.”
Mrs. Spencer also accused the FCSO of violating her family’s privacy while protecting Fosler’s, per the Times.
Lonoke County Sheriff John Staley, however, denied the charge.
“I have three daughters. I know she’s hurt right now, but there’s absolutely nobody I would put ahead of our children, their children, my children,” Staley said.
He did the world a favor. He removed a monstrous pedo from the gene pool. There’s no way I could convict him.
Remember Gary Plauché? He killed Jeffrey Doucet, a child molester who had kidnapped and raped his son, Jody. Plauché shot and killed Doucet as he was being escorted through an airport by law enforcement to face trial for what he had done to Plauché’s son. The killing occurred on March 16, 1984 and was captured on camera by a local news crew. Plauché was given a seven-year suspended sentence with five years’ probation and 300 more hours of community service, receiving no prison time…. When he was questioned as to why he shot Doucet, Plauché contended that he was in the right for murdering Doucet for abusing his son and that any parent in a similar position would have taken the same action stating “if somebody did it to your kid, you’d do it too”.
Amen.