Man jailed for 30 months for killing alleged paedophile

[Holden Caulfield]

Man jailed for 30 months for killing alleged paedophile

A former boxer has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for killing an alleged paedophile. Aleksandr Kuznetsov admitted committing the crime, but said the man he killed had attempted to rape his 8-year-old stepson.
It was early in the morning on January 1, 2008. Aleksandr Kuznetsov claims he had taken his 8-year-old step-son out for a walk, but then they got separated.

He said that upon returning home, he found the boy on the landing, and on top of him - a man with his pants down.

Aleksandr, a former professional boxer, claims he was mad with rage:

“I didn't want to kill him. Blind rage just consumed everything. All the anger, the fury. When I calmed down, the police were here, and I was in cuffs.”

The man, a 20-year-old student from Uzbekistan Bakhtishod Khairallaev, died on the spot from head injuries.

According to Pavel Vymenets, Head of St. Petersburg Investigative Department, alleged paedophile Bakhtishot Khairillayev had no social life or criminal record.

The St Petersburg court ruled that the victim attacked and injured the boy.

Kuznetsov had previously served a suspended sentence for drug abuse.

http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/32947

thoughts on anything? I think the sentence given is a discussion topic in itself.

[Sean]

Kuznetsov says he dragged his step-son away and called police. But while he was waiting he took his rage out by inflicting several head wounds.Previous article on the case. (http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/20257)
This action itself makes it murder in the eyes of the law. Essentially he caught the man raping his child, took the child away from him, called the police then went back to beat the shit out of him. That's completely unfair. Its the kind of reaction I would expect any right thinking individual to to have in any situation of sexual assault like this. The only difference is that most people aren't boxers and therefore unlikely to kill the sex attacker. Yeah, I'd say he has to get some kind of sentance for this killing, but I doubt he'll be treated to badly in jail. I'm unsure how the Russian penal system works concerning early release, but I'd say if its even vaguely like the UK system he won't have to serve half of it.

[Devrim]

As far as I can see from the story there is no evidence that the man was trying to rape his child except the man's claims.

Devrim

[apathy maybe]

In the here and now (well, then and Russia), that's murder. That's illegal, no matter what the reason.

In a future perfect society, that's also not acceptable. That's vigilantism of the worst sort, where there is no immediate and present danger (the boy was removed from the situation, and the cops called).

In either case, we don't want people going around killing other people just like that.

[Holden Caulfield]

As far as I can see from the story there is no evidence that the man was trying to rape his child except the man's claims.

Devrim

assume that this is true, what do you think about it?
I seriously cant say that I wouldn't react in the same way if I was the guy,

but you do raise a very valid concern Devrim

[Killfacer]

I think if someone was trying to rape my child then i would react in an extremely similar fashion, but it find it hard to beleive that any paedphile would just try to rape a kid on the landing of their house.

[Devrim]

You can't say how yourself or other people will react to events of this kind.

The thing that appears to me in this article is that somebody has beaten somebody to death and then accused him of molesting his child.

If I had just beaten someone to death, I would want some sort of mitigating circumstances. The dead man is hardly in a position to deny that he did it if he didn't.

But then these sort of things happen don't they. A Russian beats some sort of Turk to death, well he must have deserved it, mustn't he.

Devrim

[Drace]

I dont blame the guy. Rage is not so controlable...

[Rascolnikova]

The ability to effectively perpetrate violence bears with it a responsibility to use that violence carefully. Whether the victim should have been killed for this crime is one question; whether the perpetrator should be excused for doing it himself is another.

[Devrim]

I can't believe that everybody takes this at face value. As I read it, a Russian beats an Uzbek to death, claims he was trying to rape his kid, and then gets off with a reduced sentence.

Hey, it's only an Uzbek.

Devrim

Devrim

[Junius]

On the other hand, if it was a white American whom beat to death an African American and claimed that he saw the man attempting to rape his son and that should act as mitigation, the responses would be different, or at least people would be slightly more suspicious over the boxer's claim.

[Rascolnikova]

I can't believe that everybody takes this at face value. As I read it, a Russian beats an Uzbek to death, claims he was trying to rape his kid, and then gets off with a reduced sentence.

Hey, it's only an Uzbek.

Devrim

Devrim

I didn't even follow the link; from the initial post it's not clear that it's a Russian.

[Jazzratt]

I'm also suspicious of this guy's story. I also think that a 2 1/2 year jail sentence is outrageously lenient.