Another one to coddle?

Ohio girl found still alive, bound in basement; no info on 3 others . . .



A 13-year-old girl missing for days was found bound and gagged but alive in a basement Sunday, and authorities hoped a man charged with kidnapping her might lead them to her mother, brother and another woman who disappeared with her.

Matthew J. Hoffman, 30, was arrested at his Mount Vernon home, where Sarah Maynard was found, Knox County Sheriff David Barber said. He said the girl was hospitalized in good condition but would give no details and did not say if she had been sexually abused.

Barber did not say what led investigators to Hoffman's home, a two-story house with tan siding and a large television antenna on the roof that is about 10 miles from the home of Sarah's family. He said authorities hoped Hoffman would give them information leading to Sarah's mother, Tina Herrmann, her 10-year-old brother, Kody, and Herrman's 41-year-old friend Stephanie Sprang.

"We were hopeful of finding more than one of the missing people in the house," Barber said. "But the information we had was that Sarah would definitely be found in that house."

The four vanished Wednesday in a case that was all the more alarming because an unusual amount of blood was found at Hermann's home.

Authorities believe the girl had been "under the control" of Hoffman since Wednesday, when she and her brother last attended school, the sheriff said. He did not know if Hoffman was connected to either Herrmann or Sprang, but said he is not the ex-boyfriend of either woman.

"At this time, whether he's connected to the family or whether he connected himself to the family ... a lot of that remains to be seen as the investigation continues," Barber said.

Hoffman was charged with kidnapping, and Barber said more charges are expected. Neighbors has said they saw a body bag being taken from Hoffman's home about 40 miles north of Columbus, but the sheriff said that was "absolutely false."

"We have no one that we're aware of who is deceased," Barber said. "So we're still treating this as a missing persons case."

Authorities blocked off about a half block on either side of the house as they investigated early Sunday afternoon, keeping people from entering or leaving about a half dozen homes. But by late afternoon, the only sign of investigative activity was red and white evidence tape sealing the front door of the home closed.

Diane Davis, whose daughter lives next door to Hoffman, described him as a "crazy man." She said he at times sat in a tree behind the house and looked out at other people and that he often went to a nearby fishing hole with a backpack but no rod.

Herrmann was reported missing Wednesday when she did not show up for work at a local Dairy Queen. Barber has said blood indicating an injury had been found in her home, where Sprang's vehicle was in the driveway.

Herrmann's pickup truck had been found Thursday night near the Kenyon College campus, leading to a lockdown at the school.

Hoffman was being held in the county jail. A bond hearing was expected to be held Monday. Attempts to reach relatives of Hoffman and of Sarah were unsuccessful Sunday.
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Now, this story is just breaking, and the Associated Press has people in the area to report the progress of this investigation.  We have certain information that evade the epidemic of political correctness, and falls directly into our universal common sense, so we can make some fair and balanced conclusions:
 
1.) The perpetrator was not interested in this little, 13-year-old girl for help with his homework.  He wasn't interested in her to assist him in posting his latest church activities to his Facebook page, or in setting up an account with Twitter.
 
2.) although it hasn't been said, I'm willing to bet that he has an extensive history with local law enforcement and the criminal justice system, and that history will have several "second chances" that have been afforded him, in his escapades, so far.  If the local judges can be fooled into thinking that this kind of personality can be changed, or rehabilitated, I have a three-hour class for them!  If they then offer more "second chances" to similar criminals, there are procedures for their removal from the bench -- just ask the three most recent removals from the Iowa Supreme Court.
 
3.) In the event that the perpetrator is charged appropriately, there will STILL be efforts on the part of local prosecutors to plea-bargain the case into something less than what it should be, therefore the citizens of this jurisdication will be cheated from the very beginning, by being placed in harm's way by the very system that is supposed to protect them.
 
We cannot continue to treat these sexual predators as though we all live in some kind of "clinical world," where pseudo-experts come to court and testify that they can treat such malladies, with any level of success, whatsoever.  A pedophile is a pedophile, no matter what the courtroom definition may be; and none have ever been successfully treated.  Therefore, these creeps need to be handled as though they are among the most dangerous of psychological killers, and put them away for extended periods, (or even considering them for some kind of  humane capital punishment, in a majority of cases), and stop with the theorization that there could be something about them that they inherited or that it's part of their makeup since birth.  These monsters are created by their environmental concerns from early ages, but they are NOT born with these inflictions.  They know the differences between right and wrong, and they make the choices that lead them to their logical conclusions.  We, as society in general, cannot continue to allow them to prey on our perpetuity with impugnity, as our courts have unwittingly allowed.