Victim and Victimizer: Are They the Same?

The death of Jessica Lunsford will forever be embedded in our memories. It was a senseless act that we had a difficult time getting our minds around. Further facts may bring a better degree of understanding.

John Couey had a long police record that shows him to be a two-bit burglar with no history of violence and absolutely nothing to raise red flags. But there was something different about this nobody of a man on the night Jessica disappeared. He was ten feet tall and bulletproof on crack cocaine. The picture of a killer now emerges and it has nothing to do with his background pathetic background as a loser.

It is the same with Joseph Smith, killer of Carlie Brucia. He was a small time hood, more of a nuisance than a danger, until his system was full of crack cocaine. And it is the same with other young females who are abducted, raped and murdered. Each case is as tragic as the one before and many are more grisly than the case of Jessica Lunsford but all are equally dead.

In Jessica's case the public got highly censored news from a government that decided what we should and should not know. A pretrial motion kept the drug aspect out of the trial. Good people took on the difficult job as jurors in this case and mental imprints of what they were subjected to will be forever burned into their minds. What they did has been cheapened by the fact that even they were given partial truth to work with in a trial that was a mere mockery of justice.

This case was presented to a nation in such a manner as to induce public hysteria. It is time for us to remember that this is America where that sort of thing will not be tolerated.
For the health and welfare of this nation we had a right to know that the search was for a junkie rather than a sex fiend. Such careless, political power play has done irreparable harm to our country.