https://www.austin360.com/news/national/child-molester-beaten-death-days-after-prison-arrival-authorities-say/6B27csqdbXNrPpLOI37SJN/
"WASCO, CALIF. —
A convicted child molester in California was beaten to death by a fellow inmate just five days after his arrival at the prison where he was to be processed into the larger prison system.
Agustin Duran, 66, was attacked Saturday in a day room of Wasco State Prison, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials said Wednesday in a news release. Wasco is a short-term prison where incoming inmates are processed, classified and evaluated, both physically and mentally, to determine the appropriate prison requirements to serve out their sentences.
Duran was booked into the facility July 2 from Los Angeles County, where he was sentenced to 55 years to life for lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 years old, the news release said.
Prison officials said correctional officers responded around 7:20 p.m. Saturday to the day room after an inmate, identified as Andres Donicio Ayon, 19, began beating Duran in the face and upper body with his fists.
“An alarm was sounded and all inmates got down on the ground with the exception of Ayon, who continued to strike Duran,” the CDCR news release said. “Responding staff utilized a pepper spray grenade and Ayon complied and got down on the ground in a prone position.
“Staff placed Ayon in handcuffs and escorted him to a temporary holding cell.”
Duran was taken to a triage area for treatment and was airlifted to an outside hospital about an hour after the attack, the news release said. He died there the following afternoon.
Ayon was treated for minor injuries in the prison’s infirmary before being placed in the Administrative Segregation Unit. Duran’s slaying is being investigated as a homicide, officials said.
Ayon, who was booked into Wasco June 22 from Kern County, is serving a six-year sentence for second-degree robbery and use of a deadly weapon, the news release said. Kern County District Attorney’s Office investigators are assisting in the probe of Duran’s death.
The case that put Duran at Wasco was apparently not his first involving sexual molestation of a child. California’s Megan’s Law website, which tracks registered sex offenders, lists him as a registered offender since at least 2013.
Duran was previously convicted of sexual battery, lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years old and annoying or molesting a child with a prior conviction for a specified sexual offense, according to the website. Details of his previous cases were not included in the information."
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Pizzalawyer ago
I guess this molester's urges were just too strong. Such persons do not make good parents to begin with and they should just be castrated, and I am dead serious.
Factfinder2 ago
There is debate about the efficacy of castration or any other preventive measure, and because of this, there should be no second chances for child rapists imo.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/wellness/1992/03/17/does-castration-stop-sex-crimes/34bf63ee-840c-41e4-9c5f-5ac1bcf95b15/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.536ac0ae6f3b
"Rape crisis workers say that violence, not sex, is the real problem, which castration fails to address. "This misfocuses the issue and feeds into the myths about rape," said Denise Snyder, executive director of the D.C. Rape Crisis Center. "Sexual assault is a crime of violence and aggression . . . not the product of an uncontrollable sex drive."
The problem is often in the brain, not the testicles, said Barbara K. Schwartz, director of the Sex Offender Treatment Program at Twin Rivers Correctional Center in Monroe, Wash. A rapist who has been castrated "could still be a phenomenal danger. He can go out and, instead of raping people, he can assault them with broom handles or bottles or beat them up or kill them." "
Pizzalawyer ago
you are right about the literature but there you are dealing with chemical castration which may not be as effective as people think. Ancient cultures employed actual removal of the testicles to create eunuchs to serve and guard harems.
Gelded horses and nuetered dogs are for the most part quite neutral sexually, only occasionally aroused..
I agree that rape of an adult peer is based in large part on violence and power but I am not convinced as to.children. Men, and its mostly men , aren't commiting a violent act when watching child pornography. Those with violent urges will select violent pornography. The news is filled with men murdering children devoid of any sex. So I think we still have a long ways to go to understanding all of this but I favor drastic measures (other than murder!) until we know more. Thanks for the discussion.
septimasexta ago
"Men, and its mostly men , aren't commiting a violent act when watching child pornography." You have just exposed yourself, PEDO-PIZZA-LAWYER. No wonder this discussion has you sweating...
Factfinder2 ago
From the article:
"In Denmark in the late 1950s and early 1960s sex offenders were permitted to choose prison or surgical castration. Research on 900 castrated sex offenders showed that the rate of repeat offenses was low, about 5 percent."
Here they are talking about surgical castration. My point is that even a "low" 5% rate of reoffending is too much. So is anything above zero. The assault of even one child by a person who has previously been identified as an offender is simply not acceptable IMO.
Pizzalawyer ago
Thanks for that info.. Those are better results than I would have expected. But what can we do? A life sentence in a prison to insure 0% recidivism? Bill Clinton got a bill.passed that called for 3 strikes, ie felonies, then a life sentence which in the case of a child molester could very well turn into a death sentence.
Factfinder2 ago
Life in captivity is appropriate IMO. You can be assured that child rapists are keenly aware of what their lives in prison would be like if caught and convicted, but they still make the decision to rape.
I ask you, how is it appropriate to release a KNOWN predator with ANY potential to reoffend into a society full of innocent children?
How many children do you think it would be okay to put at risk in order to ensure that a convicted child rapist doesn't get hurt in prison?
I believe you don't really want to put any children at risk, but I urge you to think about this in real world terms. When these creeps are released from prison, children are at risk. It is a fact.
We need to take off the rose-colored glasses and adjust penalties to match crimes. A child's entire life is stolen when he or she is raped--their whole life--and they didn't get to choose whether or not they wanted to have their lives ruined.