On October 25th of last year, a New York cop, by the name of Gilberto Valle was arrested by the FBI for his plans to kidnap, rape, kill, and eat women. It is important to note that none of his plans were actually carried out, because the FBI was able to arrest him. Yesterday, his wife testified in court against him. His lawyers are defending him with the statement that since he never did any of these things, no charges can be pressed against him. Obviously, I disagree.
The problem is, they're right. In America, anyone is allowed to have sick, disgusting thoughts, as long as they don't act on them. But I would argue that Valle in this case, had the intent of acting on these plans. For goodness sake, he had files on his computer about over one hundred women that he stalked and was planning to cook. Files that he used police databases to get. If that's not a crime, I don't know what is. Did I mention that he was also offering up $5,000 on the internet for someone to kill and rape a woman for him, before he got the chance to eat her, because he didn't "want to be tempted the next time [he] abduct[ed] a girl.” Since he hasn't done anything, though, he is just some cop who has a weird fantasy about which he chats with others online about, which begs the question, Is that enough to convict him? I would hope so.
Sources:
http://sourcefednews.com/nyc-cop-totally-planning-to-eat-some-women/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKb5ZLgRR4E&list=PL8kma_GjQgWxiIbjU_JcWcjHMixor2AOW&index=2
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/27/cannibal-cop-trial-fbi-agent-corey-walsh-gilberto-valle_n_2772821.html
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2013/02/27/cannibal-cop-chatted-barbecuing-woman-with-olive-oil-fbi-agent-testifies/
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