Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Cayetano Santos Godino
This man has to be, hands-down, the most mentally disturbed serial killer I have read about. Godino was charged and jailed for the murder of four children, attempted murder of seven other children, and seven arson, at the age of 16. He was raised in a household where his mother and father were alcoholics and abusives. From a young child he loved to kill cats and birds and play with fire. At the age of seven he beat a two year old and threw the child in a ditch and a year later beat another child with a stone. Thankfully, both children survived. At the age of 16 he saw a young boy playing outside, lured him into a shed, and beat him, tied him up, and went to search for a hammer and a nail. He saw the boys father and told him that he hasn't seen his son. He later found a nail and nailed the side of his head. He was later sentenced into a reformatory because of medical reports declaring him insane, but was later transferred Ushuaia Penitentiary for trying to kill other inmates.He suffered frequent beating from other inmates for killing their pets. He died in the institution in 1944. I try really hard to look at the killers point of view and I know he was physically abused by his parents, but I can not defend the killing of a defenseless two year old, or any other children for that matter. He even had the opportunity to stop himself from killing the child in the shed when he saw his father, but decided to savagely kill him by hammering a nail in his head. I have nothing more to say. I have had many people tell me people similar to Godino should just be executed, but how does that make us any better than him, or they are if we were to kill them? Isn't that doing the exact same thing that he did? Do you believe human beings like Godino should be executed?
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If there is no doubt of guilt then Yes! However, in many instances just putting the perp in general population will equal elimination.
ReplyDeleteIt is not that we are as bad as them as they know they are going to die and for what resons the people that they kill do notnhave a chance of this and they quite often dont die with any dignity and in pain the killer will die with dignity and painless and this is what he/she will know when they commit murder
ReplyDeleteThe kid was sent to prison age 10 for masturbation, and he was turned in by own mother! In a society that fucked up, is it any wonder he developed into a psycho? Probably felt guilty about his natural sexual feelings, angry at his betrayal and neglect by his own parents, add a bit of psychopathy and you have the perfect recipe for a very disturbed individual. I hope his parents and the society that preaches such warped morality were equally haunted for the rest of their days. He did the time, but they all had some culpability.
ReplyDeleteunfortunately society makes monsters every day and some humans will cope with a disfunctional,emotionally and physically disturbed childhood,others will not.And the ones who will not,if they harm other people or animals etc..must be taken away by force and either killed or locked up forever.The scarring which has resulted from their childhood cannot be healed,not ever if they are at the point of being killers.Everyones mind works differently, copes differently and it is a sad thing that innocent babies can turn into monsters,often through no fault of their own.
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