No, doc, rapists like Chapman are monsters
Hey, Joe Plaud, this one’s for you. Joe is the psychologist you read about in yesterday’s Herald, the one who gave us all a good scolding for not looking the other way while he does all he can to free the infamous Wayne W. Chapman, a child rapist.
Incarcerated for two rapes while possibly molesting up to “50-100” more, records state, the 70-yearold Chapman was categorized as a Level 3 sex offender which, even in this bleeding heart of Massachusetts, is an acknowledgment that the risk of re-offending is high and the degree of dangerousness to the public is substantial.
That’s why many of us feel this savage should remain behind bars, where his behavior can be controlled.
Then again, can it?
While Plaud and Chapman’s attorney, Eric Tennen, were strategizing how to spring him, Chapman was recently accused of exposing himself and masturbating in full view of the prison’s nursing staff, suggesting his rehabilitation is highly questionable.
This is not complicated.
You don’t have to be the father of a young boy, or the grandfather of a young boy, to be viscerally enraged by the thought of someone you love crossing paths with someone like Chapman, nor did you have to know his young victims to weep for them.
But that kind of talk irritates Plaud.
Lashing out at what he called “needless fear-mongering,” he lectured a small media gathering to “put down any pitchforks and tiki torches!” What insufferable gall.
“I bump into (sex offenders) on the Red Line,” he told them. “These are not monsters running around the streets!”
Joe, please, must you insult us, too?
Of course these barbarians don’t hunt their prey on the Red Line; they lure them into secluded areas where they’re most helpless and vulnerable. Or is that more fearmongering? This commonwealth has a shameful history of freeing sickos.
Remember Daniel Tavares Jr., who killed his mother with a carving knife, then mailed death threats to his father until he was released from a Massachusetts prison?
Tavares was next heard from in a suburb of Seattle where he murdered a newlywed couple.
“There was no reason for this,” a spokesman for the sheriff out there lamented. “If you’d looked at him the wrong way he’d probably kill you, yet they turned him loose after 15 years.”
Joe, who should we have blamed for that?
And who would we blame if Chapman walks and another young boy is brutalized?
We have a big problem with public safety here in Massachusetts, and people like you, Joe, are a very big part of that problem.