Man confesses to molesting two children, cops do nothing

A man is caught downloading CP, confesses to sexual conduct with two kids, including his daughter, and the kids in question confirm it, but he repeatedly walks away, the police seeming to remain completely apathetic.

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last June, a woman went on her husband’s computer and saw child pornography being downloaded.
"My world turned upside down," said the woman.
But it was about to get worse, because she said she asked her husband if he had done anything more.
"And he said yes, he said that he had touched our daughter," she said. But she said he also claimed it had been a fully clothed molestation.
Scared and confused, the mother took her kids and left him, uncertain if she should tell anyone. Then, a few months later, Christmas came around. The estranged husband was staying at the home of long-time family friends. They, too, had a 9-year-old daughter.
"She said, ‘Mom I’ve got to tell you something,’" the girl’s mother said. "Something happened in the middle of the night."
Their daughter remembered the man crawling into her bed and taking off his pants.
"I was shocked and hurt," said the mother.
"I did not know how to react. I started shaking," said the father. "I wanted to attack the guy. I wanted to kill him."
And then something surprising happened. The suspect confessed—right away—to family and friends, and also to police. In fact, a Harris County Sheriff’s Department incident report states "the suspect reported he sexually molested two girls."
But what happened next has troubling implications about how police are handling child molestation cases, and if, in the process, they are endangering other children.
Even after his confession, police let the suspect go.
"I was livid," the suspect’s estranged wife said. "Are you kidding me? This makes no sense."
Even worse, her daughter then began to open up.
"Finally she broke down and she told me everything, and it was horrific," she said.
According to her daughter, it was more than just touching, but unclothed acts that even included attempted intercourse. When police interviewed the girl, the mother said they promised an arrest in a few days, but it didn’t happen.
"A week goes by, a week and a half goes by, two weeks," the mother said.
She said investigators made promise after promise, but the suspect remained free. In fact, she said the lead investigator on the case told her "it can take up to nine weeks to get someone arrested."
The mother was outraged, and so the next time she called him, she recorded the conversation.
First, Harris County Sheriff’s Sergeant James Fitzgerald blamed his caseload.
"I’ve got a hundred of these things that I’m actually working on literally, and there’s no way you can work ‘em with any kind of consistency and keep up," Fitzgerald said.
But what about the fact the suspect actually confessed?
Sgt. Fitzgerald: "You can’t turn yourself in for a crime that hasn’t been charged yet."
Mother: "Huh?"
Sgt. Fitzgerald: "Unless it’s a homicide or something."
Mother: "You can’t go to police and confess that you committed a crime?"
Sgt. Fitzgerald: "Not this type."
Confused? Randy Burton sure is, and he’s a former Chief Prosecutor for the Family Offenses Division of the Harris County District Attorney’s Office.
"I cannot for the life of me understand it. It’s inexcusable," Burton said. "There’s no difficulty here. We’ve got a child’s statement, and we’ve got the confession, it’s a slam-dunk case."

What the fuck is this shit?

To paraphrase a slightly overused Simpsons quote, "I sure hope somebody gets fired for that blunder." I somehow doubt there will be any consequences for this though...

How reliable a source is khou.com?

Cyberwulf wrote:

How reliable a source is khou.com?

If you follow the link that's in the page I linked to, it goes to the full version of the story on the site proper. It's the local Houston, TX news site, and there's also a video of the story from when it aired on TV there.

Not being from Texas, I'm not aware of what their reputation might be, but it looks legit to me.

EDIT: Fixed the link so it goes straight to the "full" page.

How does that even...? Never mind, I don't want to know. If I understood, I would be insane.

Take all the cops involved, tie them to posts, and beat them with sticks. They've earned it.

Sadly enough, it CAN take weeks to make an arrest. Crazy fucker neighbor, though multitudes of complaints were made against him because he was not only a huge jackass, but threatened people including my mother with violence, defiled people property, and just made the area unsafe, was only finally forcibly removed from the general neighborhood after two months. And thats two months after the last formal report against him was made.

What have we learned? Take manners into our own hands, because cops can be some seriously useless fucks.

Jesus. wrote:

What have we learned? Take manners into our own hands, because cops can be some seriously useless fucks.

Be careful of making ironic statements like this. As evidenced by the cult popularity of shitty movies like Boondock Saints, entirely too many people think vigilante justice is a good idea already.

TheHermit wrote:

Jesus. wrote:

What have we learned? Take manners into our own hands, because cops can be some seriously useless fucks.

Be careful of making ironic statements like this. As evidenced by the cult popularity of shitty movies like Boondock Saints, entirely too many people think vigilante justice is a good idea already.

Your post was so stupid I'm going to come to your house wearing a black and white mask and trench coat and push you into your fridge.

Then everyone will love me for bringing justice to the forums.

e: wtf am i saying

KHOU is the CBS station in Houston. Not my favorite, but they're all pretty reliable. I prefer the ABC station myself.

Mafi stop pushing people into fridges they keep eating all of my tuna noodle casserole

Delcat wrote:

Mafi stop pushing people into fridges they keep eating all of my tuna noodle casserole

I ate it 35 minutes ago.

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e: "hope you like your milk with extra URINE"

Mafiosa wrote:

e: "hope you like your milk with extra URINE"

thank you SO MUCH for making me not the only one who immediately went there ILU MAFI

Mafiosa wrote:

Then everyone will love me for bringing justice to the forums.

Make sure to remember to talk in a gravelly voice and never compromise. This is the key to true justice appreciation. INFLEXIBILITY FOR ALL!

Delcat wrote:

Mafi stop pushing people into fridges they keep eating all of my tuna noodle casserole

Yeah, and they're using up my ice cubes.

...I should really stop coming in these threads. They always make me feel depressed.

But Jesus Christ I really hope there's an update, I really do, because this is so horrible that I hope there's some kind of improvement. I don't understand how something like this can happen, which is clearly evidence I need to spend more time on the Internet.

TheHermit wrote:

Jesus. wrote:

What have we learned? Take manners into our own hands, because cops can be some seriously useless fucks.

Be careful of making ironic statements like this. As evidenced by the cult popularity of shitty movies like Boondock Saints, entirely too many people think vigilante justice is a good idea already.

The enforcement of law is delegated to the police. If they are unable, unwilling, or too incompetent to enforce it, the responsibility falls back on the people.

The unclipped part of the article says that he was arrested six weeks after he confessed. But so far, he's only been charged with abusing his own daughter. Prosecutor's say they can't charge him for the second victim because she didn't talk to investigators.