Deep Thoughts: Pedophile pastor attempts suicide in court

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Pedophile pastor attempts suicide in court

I guess the pressure of a conviction for abusing a young boy was just to much for former pastor James Harris. He tried to kill himself in the court room.

A Florida pastor convicted of sex crimes against a 15-year-old boy gobbled a handful of pills after receiving his sentence on Thursday in an apparent courtroom suicide attempt.

West Palm Beach court deputies immediately pounced on Rev. James Harris and wrestled him to the ground while ordering him to spit out the suspected poison pills.

Source: Disgraced Florida pastor’s courtroom suicide try: Pops pills after child sex-abuse conviction

I am happy they saved his life. This rat bastard must live each day of his potentially 80-year-long sentence. It is the least he can do given the abuse he forced on his 15-year-old victim. He must pay for his crimes.

Using his connections with Glade Central High School's football program, the disgraced minister lured the boy with phony promises of introductions to professional football scouts and trainers, prosecutor said.

Harris forced the boy to perform sex acts on him twice and, on a separate occasion, filmed the boy masturbating while a porn film played in the background, according to the Sun Sentinel.

James Harris belongs in prison. Let's hope he never sees freedom again.

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european observer · 664 weeks ago

If this guy wants to end his life early then what are you going to do to him? Are you advocating that he be forceably prevented from doing so? You seem to be advocating something even more severe than the sentence (justified I feel).
I feel that he should be allowed to exit this life if he wants to. Surely this is a right all of us have.

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Mojoey 107p · 664 weeks ago

I want him to pay for his crime. He can't pay if he is dead. It's
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european observer · 664 weeks ago

Keeping a prisnor alive against their will for 80 years so he can "pay for his crime" seems like an extreme form of punishment. A long prison sentence yes, but life without any hope of relief seems like a religious sentence to me. A very American type of sentence.

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Mojoey 107p · 664 weeks ago

A very American sentence... no bias there. This pastor should face justice. He should face sentencing so that his victim should can get justice and have a chance to confront his tormentor. Then he should go to prison. If at some point he becomes terminology I'll, then let him kill himself. Until then he gets to break rocks.

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european observer · 664 weeks ago

yes an american type of sentence. In most EU systems the sentence would be much shorter with the possibility of release at some point (as a sex offender). We generally have less lenghty terms with a greater emphasis on rehabilitation. We also have lower incarceration rates AND lower recidivism levels. I think the US policy of really long prison terms has more to do with revenge than anything else. You just end up with huge "warehouses of despair" but without really reducing the rates of these crimes.
Personally I think forceably keeping someone alive for the sole poupose of punishing them is a form of abuse. Didn't something like that take place in Guantanimo where prisnors driven to despair were force fed so that they could continue to be tortured when they went on hunger strike?

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