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Darren Sharper - Rapist?

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Darren Sharper takes 20-year deal in Louisiana rapes
Former New Orleans Saints safety Darren Sharper will serve a 20-year prison sentence for drugging and raping a series of women in New Orleans as part of a global plea deal that was playing out with guilty pleas in various states on Monday, according to a source familiar with deal.

Under the agreed-upon sentence in the New Orleans case, Sharper will plead guilty to two counts of forcible rape and a count of simple rape. The 20-year term he agreed to appears to be the longest among those in the four states where Sharper has agreed to plead guilty: Louisiana, California, Nevada and Arizona.

Sharper is expected to begin his sentence in federal prison and serve the balance in a state prison...


DARNELL DOCKETT ‏@ddockett
If your consciously and admiringly raping women regardless of your profession or social status class, you deserve death. Just my opinion.
 
Why not a date? I'd much rather do that than bar hop with my mate. Especially for the first time. Note, I am just asking Sharper is still an idiot.
 
There needs to be karma done to this perv. If I were a CO for a day in Sharper's unit I'll spike his dinner juice with rufies. Then when he's out I say, "here you go fellas, have fun" as the cell door slide open.
 
As of Monday, it appears the 39-year-old NFL retiree will be out of prison before he turns 50, having negotiated a "global resolution" to all charges that will see him spend 10 years behind bars on all charges in criminal cases in California, Nevada, Arizona and in state and federal court in Louisiana.

"I looked up this morning and saw the news, and I was like 'Oh no,'" said Ebony Tucker, executive director of the Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault.

"I was definitely disappointed. With the number of cases getting prosecuted, and so few of them do compared to the number that are reported, it was disappointing to see him get such a short sentence."

'A sweetheart deal'

When he entered his pleas in Arizona and California on Monday, his lawyers said would be sentenced to prison terms of varying lengths in each state -- eight years in Arizona to 20 years in both Louisiana and California -- but would ultimately serve just 10 years total in federal prison because each sentence will run concurrently -- that is, simultaneously, rather than back-to-back.
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"That is a sweetheart deal," veteran New Orleans defense lawyer Tim Meche said Tuesday. "There is something out there we don't know. Clearly. Any other defendant would get life."
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"Still, I can't imagine that when there's that many cases that they could all be lousy," Meche said.

Former U.S. Attorney Harry Rosenberg said the uncertainty of prosecuting a famous athlete, and the difficulty in coordinating prosecutions across multiple states might also have helped Sharper get "a very attractive deal."

"You look at the jail time he was facing, and people may say he got a great deal," Rosenberg said. "But on the other hand, he's still going to serve 10 years in prison and his entire future is gone."
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"Given some of his exposure (to long jail terms), it was a well-bargained deal by his defense lawyers. I don't know if any of his cooperation was considered with respect to the term that he got," Rosenberg said. "Usually you don't want to talk about the breaks he's getting."
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Even once those details are known, Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization of Women and a Tulane Law School graduate, said Sharper's sentence is "an outrage."

"This is what happens to a serial rapist who admitted to committing horrific crimes, over and over? To be sentenced to just nine years on top of his time served?" O'Neill said Tuesday. "It's an outrage for the sentence to be so lenient."
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2015/03/darren_sharper_rape_sentence_l.html
 
I've been waiting for something to leak, some kind of problem with the cases. I know some will want to say bribes but that doesn't fly between four jurisdictions state and federal. Too many people. Something is up with the evidence.

"This is what happens to a serial rapist who admitted to committing horrific crimes, over and over? To be sentenced to just nine years on top of his time served?" O'Neill said Tuesday. "It's an outrage for the sentence to be so lenient."

He "admitted" as part of a plea deal which included the sentence recommendations. It's not like he confessed and and then was being sentenced after a verdict.
 
One thing they say about date rape drugs... fogs the memory. I'd think that's one reason why they get away with it. I bet it's shockingly common.
 
One thing they say about date rape drugs... fogs the memory. I'd think that's one reason why they get away with it. I bet it's shockingly common.

I don't know much about them - how long can they be tested for afterwards (assuming there's a test)?
 
So if Darren Sharper spends 10 years in prison but while he's there takes classes offered to complete earning his degree but then gets raped while doing so does the statistic count as prison rape or college rape and which thread do we then fight about it in?
 
One thing they say about date rape drugs... fogs the memory. I'd think that's one reason why they get away with it. I bet it's shockingly common.

The most common and ancient date rape drug is ALCOHOL. But it's sometimes hard to tell who is the perpetrator and who is the victim when both indulge willingly. That's why I have a problem with morning after regret "rape" cases.

Rape is a horrible thing and should not be diluted by calling such things rape.
 
The most common and ancient date rape drug is ALCOHOL. But it's sometimes hard to tell who is the perpetrator and who is the victim when both indulge willingly. That's why I have a problem with morning after regret "rape" cases.

Rape is a horrible thing and should not be diluted by calling such things rape.

Yes, because we all know that women are brainless 2nd class citizens and should be treated as such. Most especially when involving rape cases.
 
The most common and ancient date rape drug is ALCOHOL. But it's sometimes hard to tell who is the perpetrator and who is the victim when both indulge willingly. That's why I have a problem with morning after regret "rape" cases.

Rape is a horrible thing and should not be diluted by calling such things rape.

Help me to understand what you're saying. Ok, I get that Alcohol could be the most ancient date rape drug, check. However, what I am not understanding is the next sentence of who the perpetrator and who is the victim when both indulge willingly. My understand just went from 100 to zero. My misunderstanding is leaning towards the meaning here is if a person has too much to drink and would make a decision that would not have ordinarily been made, that person is not a victim? Diluted?
 
This is just another symptom of a very sick system.

Serial rapist gets 10 years. With all the lives he's broken, people that he's impacted in a horribly negative ways, and gets 10 years.

Meanwhile, in 2012, the average federal prison sentence for a drug offender was almost 6 years.

We have federal mandatory sentencing for drug users, yet no mandatory sentencing for serial rapists and murderers.

This country has become a freakin' joke. A very bad joke with a crappy punchline.
 
This is just another symptom of a very sick system.

Serial rapist gets 10 years. With all the lives he's broken, people that he's impacted in a horribly negative ways, and gets 10 years.

Unless I'm missing something, we are going on very little information here. Essentially that multiple women accused him.

Bill Cosby has 30+ women accusing him of drugging and raping/molesting them and it seems as if most folks are in prove it mode on him.

To be clear, not saying Sharper isn't a scumbag deserving death. Just don't know from what is reported and suspect the evidence has problems or this deal wouldn't have been done.

In case anyone wants to ask "then why would he do it instead of fighting it?" Fair question. Biggest factor is there wouldn't be one trial. They would serially try them learning from each one. It's four pitches and one strike you're out.
 
Upon Further Review: Inside the Police Failure to Stop Darren Sharper’s Rape Spree

by T. Christian Miller and Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica, and Ramon Antonio Vargas and John Simerman, The New Orleans Advocate, April 8, 2015

This story was co-published with the New Orleans Advocate and Sports Illustrated.

NEW ORLEANS-It was 5:06 a.m. on a Tuesday in September 2013 when sex crimes Detective Derrick Williams caught the call. It came from the hospital. It was a distraught woman. She was saying she had been raped.

She told Williams a familiar story of French Quarter trespass: She'd hit the clubs the night before, she said. Drank a lot. Met a man. Went to his house. And awoke the next morning to find him on top of her, naked. But she told Williams she had never said yes to sex.

Williams typed up a brief report. He labeled the incident a rape. But Case No. I-31494-13 wasn't quite ordinary. The accuser was a former cheerleader for the New Orleans Saints. And the alleged rapist was Darren Sharper, a hero of the Saints' 2009 Super Bowl team, former Pro Bowl player and broadcast analyst for the league's television network.

News of the Sept. 23, 2013 incident quickly shot up the ranks. New Orleans' police superintendent and top prosecutor were briefed. In the weeks that followed, police records show that Williams gathered evidence. He got a warrant to collect a sample of Sharper's DNA. It matched a swab taken from the woman's body. Witnesses told of seeing Sharper with the intoxicated woman at a club, and later at his condo. Video footage confirmed Sharper and the woman had been together.

It wasn't enough for the district attorney's office. This was a "heater" - police shorthand for a high profile case. Prosecutors were hesitant to move too quickly on a local football hero with deep pockets and savvy lawyers, according to two individuals with knowledge of the investigation. They held off on an arrest warrant.

"If his name was John Brown, he would have been in jail," one criminal justice official with knowledge of the case said. "If a woman says, 'He's the guy that raped me,' and you have corroborating evidence to show they were together and she went to the hospital and she can identify him, that guy goes to jail."

Sharper did not - and continued an unchecked crime spree that ended only with his arrest in Los Angeles last year after sexually assaulting four women in 24 hours. In March, Sharper owned up to his savagery. He agreed to plead guilty or no contest to raping or attempting to rape nine women in four states. The pending deal allows his possible release after serving half of a 20-year sentence - a strikingly light punishment that has drawn widespread criticism.

Sharper's rampage of druggings and rapes could have been prevented, according to a two-month investigation by ProPublica and The New Orleans Advocate based on police records in five states, hundreds of pages of court documents and dozens of interviews across the country.

Nine women reported being raped or drugged by Sharper to four different agencies before his January 2014 capture. But police and prosecutors along the way failed to investigate fully the women's allegations. They made no arrests. Some victims and eyewitnesses felt their claims were downplayed. Corroborating evidence, including DNA matches and video surveillance, was minimized or put on hold.

Perhaps most critically, police did not inquire into Sharper's history. Had they done so, they would have detected a chilling predatory pattern that strongly bolstered the women's accounts.

Sharper typically chose victims who were white women in their early 20s, records show. He picked them up in pairs at nightclubs, and took them home to his hotel or residence. Sharper had drinks with them, sometimes lacing drinks he gave the women with drugs that rendered them unconscious.

The ProPublica and Advocate investigation thus reveals wider problems in the prosecution of sexual assaults in America. More than 20 years after Congress and state legislatures reformed laws to put more rapists in prison, police and prosecutors do not take full advantage of the tools at their disposal.

One key part of the change was to make it easier to use a suspect's history of sexual assaults at trial. But prosecutors and police often do not seek out other possible victims. One recent assessment called the reform effort "a failure."

The FBI also created a database to contain detailed case descriptions to help police capture serial rapists who operate across state lines. But it is seldom used. Of 79,770 rapes reported to police in 2013, only 240 cases were entered into the database - 0.3 percent.

Today, studies show that only about one in three victims report sexual assaults in the first place. Of those reports, Department of Justice statistics show, less than 40 percent result in an arrest, a far lower figure than for other major crimes such as murder or aggravated assault.

"We do an abysmal job of investigating and prosecuting rape," said Kim Lonsway, the research director for End Violence Against Women International, a leading police training organization. "There are failures at all levels."

To be sure, deep-seated societal attitudes make rape uniquely difficult to prosecute. Victims are ashamed or afraid to report it. Police and prosecutors can be reluctant to pursue it. Cases involving drugs and alcohol can turn on whether victims consented to sex, adding to the complexity.

And each of the cases involving Sharper, taken in isolation, presented prosecutors with hurdles. In secretly recorded phone calls with his victims, Sharper didn't make incriminating statements. He moved fast, in one city one day and in another the next. He drugged many of his victims with powerful amnesiacs, resulting in cloudy or even non-existent memories.

But taken as a whole, the Sharper case underscores American law enforcement's trouble with solving rape cases: Investigations are often cursory, sometimes incompetent, frequently done in ignorance of the suspect's past sex assault history.

Sharper's victims suffered the failures most. With Sharper, they encountered a man practiced in defense and deception. With police and prosecutors, they found deference toward the accused, and what often felt like disbelief concerning their claims.

ProPublica and The New Orleans Advocate contacted five of Sharper's alleged victims. Except for brief interviews with two women, none wanted to discuss the allegations. And none wanted their names used.

"It's pretty black and white," one woman said about the police. "They didn't do their job."
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He played his last game for the Saints on January 8, 2011.

Two months later, at 10:12 a.m. on March 18, 2011, Miami Beach police got a call from the rape crisis unit in Miami's sprawling Jackson Memorial Hospital. Two women had arrived that morning asking for rape examinations. Officer Alejandro Fernandez was dispatched to interview them.

Fernandez was new to the job: he'd been sworn in as a probationary police officer a month earlier. When he arrived, Fernandez interviewed two college students from the University of Georgia in Athens. They told the following story, according to police records...

Allegations and Charges Against Darren Sharper

  • Jan. 8, 2011: Darren Sharper plays in his final NFL game as a member of the New Orleans Saints, a playoff loss to the Seattle Seahawks. He would officially retire at the end of 2011 after 14 seasons, finishing with 63 career interceptions and 13 defensive touchdowns.
  • March 18, 2011: Two women file a report with the Miami Beach Police Department alleging sexual assault at Sharper's condo.
  • March 23, 2011: Miami Beach police close the investigation, classifying it as "miscellaneous/non criminal." They later destroy the rape kits.
  • Feb. 2, 2013: Sharper allegedly helps to drug a woman the night of a pre-Super Bowl party in New Orleans. The woman is allegedly sexually assaulted by Brandon Licciardi, Sharper's friend and a St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's deputy.
  • Aug. 31, 2013: Sharper allegedly rapes a woman in New Orleans.
  • Sept. 23, 2013: Sharper and Licciardi allegedly drug two women in New Orleans. Sharper and accomplice Erik Nunez then rape the women, authorities say. One victim files a report with the New Orleans Police Department.
  • Oct. 30, 2013: Sharper meets two women at a West Hollywood nightclub, takes them to his hotel room, drugs them and rapes one of the women.
  • Nov. 7, 2013: One of Sharper's victims from West Hollywood reports the assault to the Los Angeles Police Department. Detective John Macchiarella opens an investigation.
  • Nov. 20, 2013: Sharper drugs three Arizona State University female students in Tempe, Ariz., and rapes two of them. Victims get sexual assault examinations within 12 hours and file report with Tempe Police Department.
  • Jan. 14, 2014: Sharper picks up two women at same West Hollywood nightclub, drugs both and rapes one at his hotel. Victims report the incident to Los Angeles police and receive rape examinations.
  • Jan. 15, 2014: Sharper meets two women and a man in a Las Vegas club, drugs all three. With the women back in his hotel room and unconscious, Sharper sexually assaults both.
  • Jan. 17, 2014: Los Angeles police arrest Sharper on two counts of sexual assault.
  • Feb. 27, 2014: New Orleans police issue arrest warrant for Sharper on two rape counts.
  • March 11, 2014: Grand jury in Arizona files criminal charges against Sharper in Tempe case with two counts of administering dangerous drugs and two counts of sex assault.
  • Dec. 12, 2014: U.S. Attorney announces six count indictment against Sharper and Licciardi in New Orleans drugging and rape cases. That same day, the New Orleans District Attorney's office files similar charges against Licciardi, Nunez and Sharper.
  • March 20, 2015: Prosecutors in Las Vegas file two sex assault charges against Sharper.
  • March 23, 2015: Sharper strikes "global" plea deal to settle criminal cases in California, Arizona, Louisiana and Nevada.
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On the morning of March 23, Darren Sharper walked into a windowless courtroom in downtown Los Angeles in a gray, pinstripe suit. Judge Michael Pastor reviewed the deal with Sharper.

Looking down, Pastor asked: "Are you entering each plea freely and voluntarily?"

"Yes sir," Sharper responded.

"Do you realize that this is a final answer?" Pastor asked.

"Yes sir," Sharper answered.

Suddenly, it was easy to see.

The women had been right.

Sharper was a rapist.

A must read, long and detailed but... wow.

Sharper is no less than the Ted Bundy of rapists.
 
Upon Further Review: Inside the Police Failure to Stop Darren Sharper’s Rape Spree

by T. Christian Miller and Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica, and Ramon Antonio Vargas and John Simerman, The New Orleans Advocate, April 8, 2015

This story was co-published with the New Orleans Advocate and Sports Illustrated.



A must read, long and detailed but... wow.

Sharper is no less than the Ted Bundy of rapists.

Dude is like a rape machine. When does he have time for anything else? It also makes me think that if other rapists are as "prolific" as he is then maybe some of those estimates of number of rapes are higher than I previously imagined.
 

10 things to know about Darren Sharper's plea deal settling rape charges

Ken Daley, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune By Ken Daley, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on April 10, 2015 at 1:43 PM

Terms of Darren Sharper's global plea agreement with the four state jurisdictions prosecuting him as a serial rapist were revealed Wednesday (April 9) from a 15-page memorandum obtained by NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune. But to get you water-cooler ready, here are 10 things to know about the proposed agreement for the disgraced Saints star:

1. More prison time is possible - much more

Sharper appears to many to be getting off lightly, receiving a 20-year prison sentence but only expected to serve 10 if he can stay a model federal inmate. And with credit for more than a year of time served since his arrest in Los Angeles on Feb. 27, 2014, Sharper is set to serve less than nine years in federal prison (8 years, 5 months) and a California state prison (the remainder of the 10 years).

However, there are provisions in the agreement that could force Sharper to serve the remainder of a full 20-year sentence without credits if he violates terms of a strict California sex offender parole that will run 3-5 years after his release. If Sharper makes it through his parole term cleanly, he has 72 hours to move to Arizona to begin lifetime probation as a registered sex offender. If he violates his probation, he'll be hit with a 14-year suspended sentence hanging over him in that state.

2. Next up on The Voice?

That sound you hear is Darren Sharper clearing his throat and preparing to sing. The agreement compels Sharper to give truthful information about his crimes and accomplices to investigators, prosecutors, grand juries and trial juries "whenever and wherever requested." That could spell trouble for Brandon Licciardi and Erik Nunez, Sharper's co-defendants in the New Orleans rape cases. Licciardi's attorney, Ralph Capitelli, said Friday that he has no idea what Sharper plans to say, but added, "If he tells the truth, we don't have a problem."

3. Sharper leveraged information for leniency

The terms of Sharper's cooperation with authorities - and the outline of penalties if his participation is found wanting or false - takes up a full two pages of the 15-page document. Most interesting is that it falls to Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Judge Karen Herman to decide Sharper's fate if he doesn't hold up his bargain with prosecutors. The agreement empowers Herman to banish Sharper to a Louisiana prison to serve out the remainder of his full 20-year term, or have him stand trial for aggravated rape or perjury, where he would face a life sentence.

4. You may now (not) move freely

Sharper never again will enjoy complete freedom of movement. Even after he is freed from prison, he must wear a GPS monitoring device, is prohibited from traveling more than 50 miles from his approved residence, must notify his parole agent in advance of operating a vehicle, and must maintain a detailed travel log for the agent supervising his 3- to 5-year parole in California. He cannot live within 35 miles of either of his California victims, must maintain curfew hours set by his parole officer and is banned from taking any job that might allow him to enter a stranger's home. When the parole ends and he is transferred to lifetime probation in Arizona, Sharper must live somewhere approved by the state's probation department, needs written permission to leave the county and a written permit to leave the state. Sharper cannot move out of Arizona ever, unless approved to do so by a federal judge and authorities in all four states involved in the global plea agreement.

5. A sobering reality

Alcohol may never again pass Darren Sharper's lips. Terms of both the California parole and Arizona probation prohibit Sharper from possessing, consuming or having access to alcoholic beverages, liquors or over-the-counter medications that contain alcohol. California bans him from even entering "a business whose primary purpose is to sell or serve alcoholic beverages." Sharper must provide urine or breath samples whenever requested by authorities. In addition to registration and treatment as a sex offender, Sharper also must register as a narcotics offender in California and complete a substance-abuse treatment program.

6. No peeking at porn

California's parole terms prohibit Sharper from seeking sexual gratification online, on the phone or by virtually any media imaginable. He is banned from using computers, cellphones, Ipods/Ipads, gaming devices or any other electronic communications device "for any purpose which might further sexual activity." He is prohibited from possessing "sexually explicit material in any form," and from joining chat rooms or calling phone numbers "designed for sexual arousal or stimulation." Sharper also cannot go within 100 yards of a sexually-oriented business, nor possess "sexually oriented devices, handcuffs, restraint equipment or any other items that could be used for bondage, restraint, control or confinement." In addition, Sharper "shall not place or answer any type of personal advertisement seeking or soliciting a relationship with a stranger."

7. Meet the penile plethysmograph

The most sensational aspect of the plea agreement is found at the bottom of Page 11, in the third sub-paragraph detailing Sharper's Arizona lifetime probation terms. It specifies Sharper is to be placed on lifetime sex offender registration in the state, "which requires consent to penile plethysmograph test in which sensor attached to genitalia to measure degree of arousal to certain stimuli. (sic)" The agreement does not specify how the Arizona Department of Public Safety or the probation department of Sharper's eventual county of residence would use such data. But, if requested, Sharper has agreed to provide it. The device, developed nearly 50 years ago, measures the flow of blood to and from male genitalia in response to visual, aural or other stimuli. But because some sex offenders have shown ability to skew results by concentrating on fantasy or memory, the validity of the device "as a judicial decision-making instrument is not widely accepted by the courts or scientific community," according to a research report on sex offender treatment for the U.S. Senate's Committee on Criminal Justice.

8. No trick-or-treating

During his California parole years, Sharper must abide by another specific order: "You shall observe a 6 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew on Halloween and remain within your approved residence." This is a fairly common type of restriction placed on sex offenders to limit access to potential child victims.

9. No victim contact - of any kind

Sharper's California parole dictates that Sharper must never "contact or attempt to contact" his rape victims or their immediate families. "'No contact' means no contact in any form," the agreement says, "whether direct or indirect, personally, by telephone, by writing, electronic media, computer or through another person, etc. ... You shall not have in your possession any of your victims' personal effects; e.g., pictures, letters, etc."

10. It's not a done deal ... yet.

Though Sharper has entered pleas of no contest or guilty to reduced charges for sex crimes in California, Arizona and Nevada, the deal does not take effect until he pleads guilty to federal drug charges and to three rapes in New Orleans (two counts of forcible rape, one count of simple rape). And the deal still must get final approval from both a federal and a state judge in New Orleans. As currently scheduled, the final pleas and approval won't be entered until June 15.

I'm not really sure why a penile plethysmograph would demonstrate any validity in cases like this. Reformation with psychotherapy has virtually no success in rehabbing these criminals to normal sexual/non violent behavior.

Chemical castration in the case of repeat molestors/rapists can be carried out in several states.........with surgical castration as I remember offered as an option in only Texas and Louisiana.

Since the present court jurisdiction is in Louisiana, I'm confused as to why chemical or surgical castration would not have been brought up as the approach, a choice that would make penile plethysmograph testing a rather mute point.
 
I'm not really sure why a penile plethysmograph would demonstrate any validity in cases like this. Reformation with psychotherapy has virtually no success in rehabbing these criminals to normal sexual/non violent behavior.

Chemical castration in the case of repeat molestors/rapists can be carried out in several states.........with surgical castration as I remember offered as an option in only Texas and Louisiana.

Since the present court jurisdiction is in Louisiana, I'm confused as to why chemical or surgical castration would not have been brought up as the approach, a choice that would make penile plethysmograph testing a rather mute point.

As far as I'm concerned chemical or physical castration is unconstitutional and unwise. If we deem people to be sufficient threats cap them and be done with it. I'll volunteer.
 
Well, this is a new...

http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/news/12065745-148/exclusive-penile-plethysmograph-test-to

Sharper will be subject to lie detector tests and, while on lifetime probation in Arizona, to the “penile plethysmograph,” in which a sensor is attached to the penis while an array of sexual images flashes before his eyes, to gauge arousal.

WTF? To what end? I mean, rape is rape and obviously wrong and illegal but there's nothing illegal or wrong about becoming aroused while seeing images of a sexual nature? What do they possibly hope to accomplish by this?

I agree with infantrycak, just cap him if you have to go through this much trouble to deal with him. I don't much see the point in expecting the guy to never look at porn again or never drink a beer again. I expect him to not rape anyone ever again but I don't expect him to be able to stop being human. I don't think that's possible or realistic.
 
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