Another sick predator loose in Edmonton
August 12, 2008
An intelligent, well-travelled senior living in a wealthy neighbourhood was a serial rapist’s latest target, cops say.
Det. Melanie Grace said an early morning rape Saturday was likely committed by the same man who assaulted three women in the Garneau area earlier this year.
“We do believe it is possibly the same suspect,” Grace told reporters yesterday. “It may not be location that is connecting these sexual assaults.
“The concern is that it’s happened again.”
It happened to a 68-year-old woman living alone in a home near 122 Street and 40 Avenue, an upscale area called Aspen Gardens.
I’ve got family that doesn’t live too far from there, now that I think about it.
I don’t pretend to understand why people rape, nor do I pretend as though I care to understand; it is a disgusting act, and I don’t think Canada punishes people for it to any sort of sufficient degree. I do indeed believe in forgiveness, of course, but I also believe that some actions have legitimate temporal consequences, and I think that rape is definitely in that category.
My wife
often remarks that it would be a fitting punishment to render such criminals unable to assault others in the same way again via physical removal of whatever appendages were their preferred “weapon” in the attacks they’ve perpetrated. I can’t say I disagree.
