Aaron Vargas is the highest profile local news story to go national and even international since Jim Jones. His sentencing last week closed yet another unique chapter in Mendocino County history when he was sentenced to an unexpected nine years in prison for shooting to death a Fort Bragg child molester, Darrell McNeill.
Nine years is not a long sentence for deliberately killing someone, but several
factors made it unexpected in the Vargas case. First, the DA had reduced the charges from first degree murder to voluntary manslaughter. There were a great many people in not only the Fort Bragg area but in all areas of the country who felt that Vargas did the community a favor by abruptly ending the serial child abuser’s long, predatory career.
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This is a great quote. “When you are molested at 11, 12, 13 years of age, and controlled the way he was, you can’t just wake up from it. And any of the 10 to 15 people we’ve uncovered still suffer. The peril to all these kids is so obvious, it just rings bells.”
We only have to observe the tragic life of Michael Jackson who was abused from an early age by his father who continues to pursue him even after his death. Michael Jackson lost his childhood to a sadistic predator, his father, and never, never regained it. He was locked into a life searching for his lost childhood and never could reach adulthood and maturity. And as far as we know the abuse was just psychological and not sexual/psychological.
What is it you do not understand about “arrested emotional development” when you have the life and times of Michael Jackson (and with all the recrimination heaped on him for pedophilia which I sincerely doubt existed)
played out on an open world stage. Michael Jackson, searching all of his life, found only Neverland, and not his destroyed childhood.
Why do you think Michael made such immature and baffling decisions? Why do you think Aaron Vargas made such immature and baffling decisions? Do you think the world would have been better off with Michael in San Quentin? Do you think the world is better off with Aaron Vargas in San Quentin?
Darrell McNeill could not permit Aaron Vargas to develop into adulthood with a wife and child. He was losing Aaron! He had to get aggressive and attacked him at his most vulnerable spot…his new life…his precious daughter. Aaron was crawling out of the snake pit, he must be stopped!
What Darrell could not finish the Van Pattens and Ronald Browns, with great pride and feigned indignation , have thrown Aaron Vargas into an even greater snake pit, San Quentin prison. In truth they should be serving Aarons sentence
because they did NOTHING to stop Darrell and that was what they were pretending to do – protect and serve. This sentence and posturing is simply transference of guilt.
And Aaron cannot defend himself from them, thats the beauty of molesting children and transferring guilt to them, the children suffer it all in silence. They are such helpless victims. And it is so empowering for the perverted soul.
How long, O Lord, before righteousness judgment goes forth in the earth.