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Man who plotted to kill and eat children gets more than 26 years in prison

There's not much to discuss here. You posted what you posted and it'll sit there for all the board to see for as long as the board exists. Perhaps you'll realize later how excusing this EVIL asshole (and I rarely ever use that word seriously) because he hadn't yet carried out his plans is disgusting. Perhaps you won't. Still disappointing.
 
A long, long time ago. Certain content has always been a crime. And before you treat us with more pics from a war zone, at least take some time and google around as to why those aren't a crime.

I will say I'm massively disappointed with you, trying to excuse or legitimize this guy's behavior with a cheap political point.

I suggest you read the article, this aint that.

Child pornography is a heinous crime and I won't argue that.

As for my support of eating children, properly prepared, I'm surprised you couldn't see this was humor, not advocation. I'll try to be more serious from now on.
 
Those castration tools he had could come in handy for dealing with him.
 
Agreed. I mean I would think he'd be put into a high security psychological ward (is there such a thing anymore?) instead of prison, especially since he actually didn't eat any children. I mean, people act out all sorts of illegal things but they're not arrested and jailed for such things. This is very "minority report" without all the cool cop tools.

I saw the plot about the three women but not a plot to do anything to children.

Edit: Sorry I clicked on the Cop link instead of the main link. Why were 2 links included?
 
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I saw the plot about the three women but not a plot to do anything to children.

from the OP:

A Boston-area man who plotted to kidnap children, rape and eat them, was sentenced Tuesday to more than 26 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release, according to court documents from the United States district attorney's office.

His home in Worcester was searched last year and authorities found tens of thousands of computer images and videos of child pornography, 4,500 exchanges of child pornography between Portway and the people he chatted with online. The images included children purportedly being cooked and prepared to be eaten, court documents said.

Authorities also found a locked basement, court documents show. Photos taken the day of Portway's arrest show a narrow wooden staircase leading downstairs to a soundproof room in which he planned to imprison children. The room was furnished with a metal cage with a circular hole for feeding, a rusted and worn steel-topped table, as well as multiple kinds of metal bondage equipment. A child-sized coffin made of plywood was found on the floor nearby.

Online chats, seized by police, showed Portway calling his basement a "dungeon" where he intended to "keep kidnapped children while he sexually abused them and as a place to eventually murder and cannibalize the children," authorities said.

Sounds pretty clear what the intentions were. However, the child pornography he had in the place alone is enough for me to support locking this sicko up for life.
 
I wonder if 26 years was the maximum they could do based on the plea agreement?
I don't think this guy will ever be safe to return to society.
 
So this gets a whole 26 years in Massachusetts? Wow.

That deserves a lobotomy and the rest of his life as a zombie that cannot hurt anyone. This is why vigilantism is needed in USA. When these types of freaks get out because the judge is too weak on crime, someone needs to take these folks out for the greater good. It's appalling that some judge thinks this guy should walk the street in 5 or 10 years after a reduction for good behavior.
 
He's 40 years old. He'll be 66 when he gets out

If he gets out

With any luck the guy will get shanked. 15 or so years is plenty of time for the muslims, skinkeads, or latinos to take care of business. Hopefully they put him in genpop.
 
Pedophile seems like the incorrect term for someone who wants to kill children.
 
People that go to jail on a child related charge seldom survive.
 
I understand arresting people for making child porn, but why do we arrest people for having child porn? If they didn't make it then exactly who did they harm? The rest of it is just stupid. He might harm someone in the future, so lets throw him prison before he does anything. How is that justice?
 
I understand arresting people for making child porn, but why do we arrest people for having child porn? If they didn't make it then exactly who did they harm?

If you cannot understand why having child porn is illegal, we don't even have a foundation for discussion. Wow, is all I have say, just wow.
 
If you cannot understand why having child porn is illegal, we don't even have a foundation for discussion. Wow, is all I have say, just wow.

How is possessing child porn harming someone? Again, I understand how making child porn harms children, but possessing it doesn't harm anyone. Why is possession illegal?
 
How is possessing child porn harming someone? Again, I understand how making child porn harms children, but possessing it doesn't harm anyone. Why is possession illegal?

Because somebody was harmed in the making of that product. The demand created the supply, which created the harm.
 
How is possessing child porn harming someone? Again, I understand how making child porn harms children, but possessing it doesn't harm anyone. Why is possession illegal?

Because possessing it continues the illegal exploitation of a child and it hurts the child whom did not give legal consent. Very simple stuff here.
 
Because somebody was harmed in the making of that product. The demand created the supply, which created the harm.

So if a product that you demand turns out to cause harm to people in the making of the product you should be arrested for possessing the product even if possession of the product harms no one. That's bull****.
 
This man will likely never leave prison alive.

That said, it is a failure of our justice systems and our society in general that we have no truly humane way to deal with people like this man who clearly are severely mentally ill and need help more than punishment.
 
So if a product that you demand turns out to cause harm to people in the making of the product you should be arrested for possessing the product even if possession of the product harms no one. That's bull****.

Do you feel the same way about stolen TVs and other goods acquired through crime? You're okay, as long as you didn't actually commit the crime with benefitting from the proceeds of that crime, is that it?
 
Just send him to Texas. We'll handle it.

Just tough talk. That's what I thought. There's nothing any state could do much beyond what was done to him.
 
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