He did serve 13 years so I won’t debate whether he shouldn’t have.

Were I a juror deciding the fate of someone being tried for killing a serial rapist, I would know the law had failed. By refusing to convict I can enable the jury to correct the law’s error. ( greatly edited. )

He was in an impossible situation. He had to know he would waste many years behind bars, but could not resist the urge to strike back when no one else did. If dad had shot the rapist's nuts off, he might have been out sooner and forced enough exposure to get the perv locked up forever. Tough choices.

I do not usually condone violence of any kind, however “I” would be capable of this, understanding full well that I might spend the rest of my life in prison. Such crimes against children are unforgivable.

The first problem with this story isn't that a man was sentenced for taking the law into his own hands. That's the law doing its job correctly. The problem is that when presented with the evidence that a man molested a six year old girl, the law did nothing. That's the law failing to do its job at all.

The second problem with this story is that while I can see a number of reasons for someone to write that story and a number more for it getting a great deal of traction and engagement on the Internet, these reasons are entirely independent of the story being an objectively true and accurate account. My brief Intetnet search on this story shows little more than a bunch of the same screenshots. No corroborating evidence or news reports. There is a link to a mugshot and prisoner details here. [publicpolicerecord.com] The name and height match but the sentencing doesn't.

This sounds heroic but if this guy were given a lighter sentence it could embolden others to commit acts of vigilantism. And then, where do we draw the line? Letting an individual be judge, jury, and executioner sets a very horrible precedent that will almost certainly result in innocent people being murdered.

And if there are only two witnesses to a murder and one of them is the victim... the survivor gets to spin the story however they wish.

No... vigilantism needs to remain within the confines of comic books and movies.

Justifiable homicide.

Damn.... !!! Courage. He did so other fathers didn't have to and little girls didn't have to.

Possibly he served less because evidence was found?

I say "no" to vigilantism. Our adversarial system of justice gives both sides the opportunity to tell their side of the story, not just one side as in this case.