Skarp wrote:[
Again, I can't understand how there are so many of these guys walking around out there when it is so easy to find them. Everyone they abducted/raped/abused/killed presumably has relatives.
"Hey, whatever happened to _______?" should be a question regularly heard in the neighborhoods where these pukes live.
Its something you have to be very careful about. After an incident, the police know the relatives of the victim and know where they live. They visit often to make sure there is no vigilantism happening - they remind over and over, that the victim would be hurt twice, once by the initial incident, and then second when the relative takes action and then goes to jail.
It wouldnt be an issue in cases where there are plain simple evidence (DNA) that is easy to retrieve - but in some cases that is not possible. So then it takes serious detective work, and these kind of convictions are very difficult - so the police work on the easier crimes. Then the relative has to work on his own, and it takes a long time to be sure. But even then, you dont have convictable proof.
So what do you do? Kill him - and risk going to jail - put up signs saying 'we know who you are ' - a possibility, find him on a dark night - and make sure that he loses the wherewithal to commit that crime again, all possibilities. What you dont do is give up - and all it takes is to see other young kids around that are possible next victims.