Parole Board Blows it Again; Teen strangled to death by recently-freed killer
Danny Rouse, Two-Time Child Killer
Ever wonder why neighborhoods rise up in anger when they learn a parolee of a violent crime is in their midst? Would you? Some would tell you that parolees have served their time and these NIMBYs are both unfair and unjust. Of course people are welcome to their opinions even when they are wrong and here’s another tragic example why the NIMBYs are justified with their outrage when they learn the new arrival on their block is a child killer.
Six months ago, the geniuses at the Kansas Parole Board felt that Danny R. Rouse, 51, had rehabilitated so they set him free. Rouse had killed a 5-year old boy in 1979.
Six months later, “a feeling came over him” (his words to police) and he killed 16-year old Stephanie Wagner.
We know it was Rouse because he confessed to killing her and told police where to find the body. (So please withhold any comments saying that there is a difference between being charged and being found guilty. He’s admitted it. End of story). Rouse got a second chance in life and used it to rob a 16 year old girl of hers.
What’s the lesson here? It’s okay to take chances in life. If you want to try a new detergent or a new restaurant then go ahead and give it a shot. Maybe it will work out and maybe it won’t.
However you want to see how a convicted child killer is going to do out in a world filled with kids, that is not a chance that should be taken. A child killer that has “feelings that come over them” to murder again should not be free–ever. California, one of the most liberal states in the country, has seen very few murderers paroled over the past decade. This has been a policy of the past two governors and is a very, very good practice. And please don’t hit me with the expense of housing all of these criminals. Hold a telethon to raise money to keep child killers in jail and millions will be raised. My checkbook is ready to go for that kind of fund-raiser.
Of course the pols are grandstanding:
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius issued a statement Thursday calling for a review of that state’s Parole Board.
“Kansans need to know what criteria they use, what information they consider and how they make decisions,” she said. “If there is a way to improve the process, we should do it.”
Improve the process? How about no parole for child killers? That’d be a very good improvement.
“There’s no doubt some of these people will re-offend,” said Don Blackburn, executive director of the Interstate Commission for Adult Offender Supervision.
Then why are they being released? Are the lives of kids secondary to the freedoms we want to bestow upon those that prey upon them?
Kill a kid, serve your full term.
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November 3rd, 2006 at 1:01 pm
Absolutely. I can’t tell you how that chaps my ass. It’s time for that dude to die. Period.
November 3rd, 2006 at 3:23 pm
What is hard to understand about a life sentence? Where is the injustice of keeping a person in prison if he has been sentenced to spend his LIFE in prison? Parole is a social roulet that betrays the innocent citizens.
November 3rd, 2006 at 4:42 pm
Rouse’s original crime was attempting to kill a woman for refusing to have sex with him. He left her for dead and then walked in and cut the throat of her child who was in the next room. How can parole ever be considered for these crimes? The Manson family members remain in jail (thankfully) so why was this monster put back on the streets?
November 3rd, 2006 at 6:18 pm
I was watching Montell Williams today and was shocked and appauled to know that there is a lady from California in prison serving twenty five to life for opening a soda in a grocery store and drinking it. She didn’t have any money in her pocket, so was accused of stealing, which was her third felony, so the judge told her she was out. Twenty five years in prison is a very long time to spend over a ninety nine cent soda. On the flip side of this story, a man who committed two violent acts, one of those crimes killing an innocent child, was let loose in a world full of wonderful children with bright futures ahead of them just to committ another violent act of crime, taking another innocent child’s life. I am in no way, shape, or form the judge of anyone, but there has to be some kind of fairness, and balance with our justice system. Whenever people who kill inocent children are set free to kill other innocent children, but others are serving twenty five years for stealing a soda, something is dramatically wrong. I’m sure that this woman could have borrowed ninety nine cents from somewhere. They didn’t have to send her to prison. He could have just kicked her out of the store, and told her not to come back. I would rather have her on the loose, and pay a little more at the grocery store than to have a convicted child killer running around loose with my children. I just cannot understand why this man was let loose, while others with petty crimes aren’t able to get out.
November 3rd, 2006 at 10:41 pm
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius: “If there is a way to improve the process, we should do it.” Nice meaningless statement.
She should have said, “If there was a way to improve the process, it should have been done, but it wasn’t and as Governor I take responsibility. I’m as ineffective as Bob Dole and as stupid as corn. Sorry.”
November 5th, 2006 at 6:43 pm
As a resident of Cass County, Indiana, where Danny Rouse sits in jail only 10 minutes from my home, I am outraged about Kansas setting him free. The poor family of Stephanie Faye Wagner should not be grieving and waiting to bury their little girl tomorrow. The authorities in Kansas should be ashamed. Is it not bad enough that he slit a five year old boy’s throat in 1979 in Kansas? Did they ever think of keeping him there? I only hope our judicial system in Indiana gives justice to the family of that little boy in Kansas as well as to Stephanie’s family here in Logansport. Such horrific people should never set foot on free soil again.