If you want quick justice, perhaps he should get 18 months probation, and then be released, with "time off for good behaviour."

Good, now maybe her mother will get the same.

punish severly and maybe your brothers sisters children will realize crime does not pay. This baby was not asked if she wanted to be assulted but maybe by the time he was through hurting her she wanted to be out of the pain.

"The protection of innocents has to be put first, always and all ways. PERIOD!!!"

I agree that's what it OUGHT to be about. When people assume, before trial, what the outcome must be or else, I think they put their own kneejerk, emotional desires ahead of that. Again, in the immediate aftermath of Shaniya's death, THIS VERY MESSAGE BOARD was calling for the death of the wrong guy, who was arrested first. People here let their emotions cloud their judgment in their posts here.

As for putting the protection of the innocents first, one way we can do this is by not insisting every petty criminal be punished so severely he or she has no hope of forgiveness or opportunity and simply goes deeper and deeper into crime, until something like this happens. Had Mr. O'Neill's previous offenses been publicized here, no doubt numerous taxpayers would have objected to measures that might have paid for his education. Think how much better off Shaniya might be now if we'd been more sensible then.

Thank God!!!!! Let me smirk back at him since he got a chance to smirk at cameras when he walked into the court room. That smirk was on tv - I could have shot throught that tv and gone after him. But unlike him that's not my style. I will only smirk back.

beachboater - "I hear that child molesters and rapists don't fare to well in the general population."

I'd like to think that, but unfortunately, there are often gangs in prisons where they band together by crime and protect one another.

He may end up being safer than he was in his mother's arms.

This is a horrible story and we would all like to think there is some punishment that would make it seem like justice was obtained for the little girl but there is nothing that compares to what she must have gone thru. I'd love to hear that the story the prosecutor is presenting is wrong and the suffering wasn't as bad as it seems.

I saw him on the news tonight. He had a smirk on his face and looked like he didn't have a care in the world. What a POS!!!!! I hope he gets the death penalty. Any other decision would not be justice for that little girl.

What a terrible story. Terrible. What is more worse than this story is reading the comments of people who want us to be more like Iran - all of whom will probably also praise glory to their lord Sunday. *sigh*

He should be happy to be tried with the death penalty. Death row inmates get private cells, no interaction with the general population. I hear that child molesters and rapists don't fare to well in the general population.

And to top all that off, North Carolina basically doesn't have a death penalty. Well, we have one, but it is not carried out. We can't take the life of a murderer because the needle may cause him a little pain a suffering. Nothing compared to the victim, but the criminal has rights not offered to the law-abiding citizens of this state.

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