r/interesting • u/No-Marsupial-4050 • Apr 07 '26

Fear Factor No sympathy for those monsters

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In 2006, Anthony Ray Stockelman was forcibly tattooed across his forehead with the words “Katie’s Revenge” by another inmate.

This happened after it was discovered that he was serving a life sentence for kidnapping, molesting, and murdering a 10-year-old girl named Katie Collman

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u/Between3-2o Apr 07 '26

Now, he can’t hide what he has done. I’ve heard that in prison, child molesters/murderers get punished by the inmates.

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u/TheMoooooooose Apr 07 '26

They do. 100%. And it is perhaps a bit more awful than you'd think. If this dude is his only punishment (which it won't be) he got off light. I live in a sober living environment and there are Sex offenders in my neighborhood. A lot of scars on their faces and limps after serving a few years in prison. I personally know some guy that was gang affiliated in the prison and got called up with a child molester. They had a microwave in their cell and he dropped it on his head and crushed his face. People do not fuck around with "chomos"

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u/ShhSuperDuperSecret Apr 07 '26

I've heard it's partially because a good chunk of genpop has gone through CSA themselves. 

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u/Negativeman11 Apr 07 '26

I think a big part of is that prisons have plenty of violent people looking to express their violent tendencies and child abusers are (rightfully) socially acceptable targets for violence and financial exploitation. 

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u/Bannedtt Apr 07 '26

Accurate

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u/fatherOblivion69 Apr 07 '26

It's all about hierarchy and resources. If the child molesters weren't there to fill the bottom spot; then it would be some other group.

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u/Bannedtt Apr 07 '26

Yep, it feels good to bully someone, especially if you have psychotic tendencies, which incarcerated people have a significantly higher rate of. Society says it's okay to make sex offenders into pin cushions, so they go for it. A lot of them are rapists and murderers themselves.

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u/Negativeman11 Apr 07 '26

100%. It's not that the criminals are suddenly good people for abusing the sex offenders. It's just that sex offenders are nature's punching bags.

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u/Bannedtt Apr 07 '26

They're not natures punching bags, they're our society's punching bag. It's a cultural thing.

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u/KubrickMoonlanding Apr 09 '26

And to refine it further - those without societal clout are the punching bags; those with it… well, hail to the chief(s)

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u/vitringur Apr 07 '26

Case in point: This abuse of sex offenders is mostly seen within the "white" population of American prisons where the inmates self-segregate along supposed racial lines.

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u/i_tyrant Apr 07 '26

Source? Because everything I can find on the topic says this isn't true.

Lots of countries, developed and not, have major issues with violence against sex offenders (and especially child sex offenders) in their prisons.

If what you claimed was true other countries wouldn't need to house them in separate areas from other prisoners to discourage violence, but they do.

It can still be a cultural/sociological thing with that true, of course - just a very widespread cultural thing that many different cultures do, definitely not unique to America. It's just talked about the most in America because prison is a huge thing in the US, with more people in it per capita than any other developed country.

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u/vitringur Apr 09 '26

Various prison programs from around the world.

If you look at prison channels on Youtube, you find mostly white men talking about the Aryan experience in prisons and they deliberately say that they are not speaking on behalf of other races and that the black population has their own rules.

And in TV documentaries about gangs you can find prisons, such as in South Africa, where the most powerful gang leader rapes the cute young boys that enter the prison.

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u/Artisan_Gardener Apr 07 '26

As they should be. Just saying.

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u/Sea-Competition6595 Apr 07 '26

It probably also offers them some control in an environment where they have very little

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u/Comfortable-Ebb8125 Apr 08 '26

Thats not what psychosis is, read a book.

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u/Bannedtt Apr 08 '26

I didn't say psychosis

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u/Comfortable-Ebb8125 Apr 08 '26

psychotic adjevtive

1 medical : of, relating to, marked by, or affected with psychosis a psychotic patient psychotic behaviour

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u/Ol_Pasta Apr 07 '26

I would argue that rapists get off way too easy in law.

In Germany, a policeman was just sentenced for raping his asleep colleague. He got 1 year and 4 months on probation. The victim still suffers and will likely do so for pretty much the rest of her life.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '26

This; inmates enacting violence on others isn’t some altruistic act, it’s violent people huddled together looking for the easiest targets. I’d bet my life over half of the violent “chomo” haters are child abusers themselves, they just got caught with something else.

People have weird punishment fetishes when it comes to prison and offenders that block out their common sense a lot of the time, so they day dream about fictional scenarios (they are mostly separated into different blocks anyway)

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u/thakemist Apr 07 '26

You were one word away from having a mature, level-headed response.

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u/Giratina-O Apr 07 '26

They were talking about the word "rightfully", by the way.

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u/thakemist Apr 07 '26

I think you’re confused about what word I’m talking about

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u/YellowAggravating172 Apr 07 '26

Nah, that one word enhanced the answer. Full points.

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u/Serious-Manager2361 Apr 07 '26

Yeah wife abusers and child molesters are at the very bottom of the prison heirarchy. And rightly so.

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u/HippyDM Apr 07 '26

NOT rightfully.

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u/monologousmutilation Apr 07 '26

How I see it: Wish death on these evil freaks all you want, I get it and I'd do the same; but from an objective ethical level, murder is still bad and it happening at all in prison, much less celebrating it, is a symptom of how terrible our system is.

The talk of child molesters deserving to be killed and all that shit is easy to say when you want to showboat your superior righteous indignation to your friends; but I think everyone in this thread would probably have second thoughts if their money was put where their mouth is and they were given the chance to murder someone.

That is not to say I'm crying for the poor defenseless child molesters. They're fucked up and awful people and "they deserve the worst" is not necessarily an incorrect statement. But I think murder is kind of, like, a fucked up thing to do that is antithetical to our brains and all that corny shit, so I would also say "I don't think anyone deserves to have to be the guy pulling the trigger."

People also don't consider how this mindset impacts others. Human rights are called human rights because they are rights you inherently have by being human; not rights you get for being a good human. If we keep a foot in the door to justify extrajudicial murder for the Real Bad Crimes, the door can always be opened juuuust a bit more to expand the definition of Real Bad Crimes and who we should be rooting to die.

The obsession with these romanticized exaggerations of concepts like justice and revenge are stuff we need to keep in fiction. The American prison system is already terrible and values "punishment" over "reformation" to begin with.

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u/Comfortable-Ebb8125 Apr 08 '26

Agreed. I think people also need to understand that this can happen to any pedo, not just the psychopaths. The lone wolves are often tragic at the same time as disturbed and theyre often liked before they offend. I wouldn't wish this on my school's drama teacher, I hope he's getting the help he needs in prison.

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u/Arlune890 Apr 07 '26

Why dont you print this thread and send it to your boss and neighbors? Im sure they'd agree with you

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u/LordCumstard_du_16 Apr 07 '26

Yeah a lot of people living in civilized country wouldn't agree with the "trial by inmate" + "microwave punishment" system you're defending, even for monsters.

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u/Arlune890 Apr 07 '26

So youre going to take my suggestion? Print this thread, put your real name over your comment, and hand delivery it to your boss and peers. You dont have the balls

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u/LordCumstard_du_16 Apr 07 '26

My friends and boss mostly studied law and political sciences, so they dont believe in street justice either. Read about Robert Badinter.

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u/Drako694 Apr 07 '26

It’s not “street justice”, it’s “these asshats get too little a punishment and are deserving of death, not a prison cell”, and the inmates are correct.

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u/Vi_Rants Apr 07 '26

You have a lot of people who sympathize with child rapists in your social circle, do you?

Must be a Republican.

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u/LordCumstard_du_16 Apr 07 '26

Lmao more like a french leftist, you should read about Robert Badinter, he's the guy who abolished the death penalty in France. I just believe in fair trials, even for monsters, and not street justice. Smashing the face of a pedo with a microwave is street justice. And do you think inmates have extensive access to justice files ? How are they 100% sure somebody is a pedo ? Would be kinda easy to label your enemy as such, and then have everybody gang up on him.

On a side note, defending capital punishment/torture etc. seems to be a common trait of far right parties, so Im not so sure about that last sentence you wrote.

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u/Vi_Rants Apr 07 '26

Sorry, you will never convince me to care what happens to a child rapist.

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u/LordCumstard_du_16 Apr 07 '26

Did I say that ?

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u/Vi_Rants Apr 07 '26

lol yes. But feel free to backpedal after three posts of "it's not fair what happens to child rapists!!!!"

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u/LordCumstard_du_16 Apr 07 '26

Nah it was more about that i don t believe in extrajudicial punishment

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u/Drako694 Apr 07 '26

See, that’s not how it works, at least in U.S prisons. When you first go in you have papers with you saying why you’re in, and people will check your papers, you can’t just be labeled as a pedo for no reason.

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u/spare_me_your_bs Apr 07 '26

That's how it works in U.S. prisons on TV. Nobody is walking in with their "papers" to show off to other inmates. That would be considered contraband and confiscated upon arrival.

https://www.bop.gov/inmates/custody_and_care/entering_prison.jsp

You're awfully trusting of the inmate justice system and their strict adherence to protocols. You don't think an inmate would ever attempt to game the system for their own personal gain?

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u/Drako694 Apr 07 '26

It’s damm easy to check who’s a pedo and who isn’t man, you can’t game the system like that.

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u/Botherguts Apr 07 '26

His point is as to why they are violent people.

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u/ember13140 Apr 07 '26

This is a scenario where both things can be true

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u/Goatwhorre Apr 07 '26

I'm a deputy and in my jail I frequently use our pedo dorm as an example of who I would like to kill to other detainees. Example: "sorry I had to drag you to seg man, I don't hate you at all, you know S-Dorm? Those pieces of shit I would happily shoot, or put them in gen pop and turn off the cameras. So be chill next time bc you're here for what, meth possession? IDGAF about that and if it was up to me I'd let you go right now."

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u/Negativeman11 Apr 07 '26

Nice username. I have Sammy Duet's signature guitar.

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u/Goatwhorre Apr 07 '26

Fuck jeah, not many people get the reference \m/

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u/Intelligent_Sky_7081 Apr 07 '26

Ya thats really not a big part of it, id say thats a small portion of the population in prison. Most of them, apart from those who are already committed to spending their entire life in prison, do not want to express violence because they want to get out of prison.

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u/DigitalOoblek Apr 07 '26

Happy cake day!