East Coast Rapist suspect acknowledges attacks in several states, says he couldn't stop - Polidicks

[url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/east-coast-rapist-suspect-acknowledges-attacks-in-several-states/2012/11/10/11cdbd1e-d87a-11e1-91e1-eed6436f6d13_story.html[/url] [quote=Washington Post]Aaron Thomas would go for walks that had almost a scripted ending. He’d see a woman. His heart would race. His hands would shake. He’d approach her. He’d scare her into submission. Then he would rape her. [B]“They were objects,” Thomas said. “Whoever came down the street, an object. . . . It’s awful. It’s scary. . . . I don’t know why I couldn’t just stop.”[/B] Thomas says he is the East Coast Rapist: the man who terrorized women in the Washington area and New England beginning in the early 1990s, culminating in an attack on three trick-or-treating teenagers in Prince William County in 2009. His crimes, which spanned nearly half his life, gripped the region with the kind of fear that comes from an unknown man, lurking in the darkness, attacking strangers who were doing such everyday tasks as walking home from work, waiting for a bus, moving out of an apartment or even sleeping in their own bed. In hours of telephone interviews with The Washington Post from his jail cell in Prince William County, Thomas for the first time publicly acknowledged that he attacked women in several states. He said he has struggled to understand why he did it, and why he did it so many times — more than a dozen rapes by his count, although police think there were probably many more. Thomas’s unusual pretrial confessions offer the first real picture of the man who eluded police for decades. Interviews with Thomas, his family and others close to him tell a brutal story about the troubled son of a D.C. cop who grew into a ruthless criminal. He was a doting father figure and fun-loving companion but also jealous, violent and prone to sneak out at night, when he would prey on the vulnerable and hide his actions from everyone. He was street-smart, tough, physically chiseled and unpredictable. Thomas was also careless enough to leave his DNA at 13 different attack locations, according to police, creating a long trail that would inevitably tie him to them all. Loved ones said he hinted several times that he had done terrible things, but he was never specific and they never pressed him. Those around him didn’t put the pieces together, or they didn’t want to. So he got away with it for years. Now, Thomas is poised to accept responsibility for his crimes. He is scheduled to plead guilty on rape and abduction charges in Prince William County on Tuesday for the Halloween attacks and in Loudoun County on Nov. 30 for a 2001 rape in Leesburg, law enforcement officials said. Thomas faces the possibility of several life terms in prison. Thomas began his conversations with The Post with a lie. He blamed the crimes on an alter ego named “Erwin” — a character he told his family and police about after his arrest in March 2011. But Thomas eventually admitted that he was faking a split personality and that Erwin was just a name he gave to his problem. Thomas met with psychiatrists for months as his defense attorneys prepared for an insanity defense — an argument that would center on Thomas not knowing right from wrong at the time of the rapes or having irresistible urges. But late last month, his attorneys informed the court that they would not pursue that defense. (continued in source)[/quote]

What a very sad yet interesting perspective on a case like rape.

I would make a cum joke but something tells me I'd be hated upon for doing so.

This is sad. I still think we should offer the choice of chemical castration to alleged rapists. It's not that bad considering he could have a "normal life" (well, more of a normal life than the one he's depicting) with a guarantee of safety for everyone around him.

This is strange, because most rapists I've read of never saw anything wrong in what they did. Seeing this guy can't understand why he does it makes me think he can somehow turn it around. The fact he's sorry is already a better thing than him being "they asked for it lol"

[QUOTE='[Green];38410186']This is strange, because most rapists I've read of never saw anything wrong in what they did. Seeing this guy can't understand why he does it makes me think he can somehow turn it around. The fact he's sorry is already a better thing than him being "they asked for it lol"[/QUOTE] The thing is, very rarely do people genuinely believe that they are bad; more or less that they have good intentions but are caught up in circumstance. The people you mentioned who were on the mentally insane side probably didn't think they were bad people either, they were just too insane to realize what they were doing was wrong. I mean, look at all those letters from death row inmates; every single one of them said they felt sorry for their crimes. There's also a lot of cases with child molesters, where it seems that they don't actually think much of what they are doing until they are confronted with the consequences of them. At that point, it's a matter of self-control whether they commit the same crime again. This is why prisons should focus on rehabilitation, rather than treating them like animals for ten years of their life.

How come nobody has picked up yet on the fact that he referred to said women as objects? Seriously, that's creepy as hell.

[QUOTE=-Get_A_Life-;38410106]This is sad. I still think we should offer the choice of chemical castration to alleged rapists. It's not that bad considering he could have a "normal life" (well, more of a normal life than the one he's depicting) with a guarantee of safety for everyone around him.[/QUOTE] Like being sterile is gonna stop a psychological disorder or trauma which manifests itself in the desire of commiting the act of rape.

I think a lot of it has to do with power struggle and abuse as a child.

[QUOTE=Van-man;38413211]Like being sterile is gonna stop a psychological disorder or trauma which manifests itself in the desire of commiting the act of rape.[/QUOTE] Chemical castration removes the need for sex. [editline]12th November 2012[/editline] Damn, need for sex is a cheesy expression, could be a porn version of Need for Speed.

[QUOTE=-Get_A_Life-;38413749]Chemical castration removes the need for sex. [editline]12th November 2012[/editline] Damn, need for sex is a cheesy expression, could be a porn version of Need for Speed.[/QUOTE] Need for Seed.

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;38412906]How come nobody has picked up yet on the fact that he referred to said women as objects? Seriously, that's creepy as hell.[/QUOTE] the guy is mentally ill as fuck, I think we get he is not right

[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;38410089]I would make a cum joke but something tells me I'd be hated upon for doing so.[/QUOTE] well it's a good thing your mind didn't roam there and had the forethought to not post something like that

[QUOTE=-Get_A_Life-;38410106]I still think we should offer the choice of chemical castration to alleged rapists. It's not that bad considering he could have a "normal life" (well, more of a normal life than the one he's depicting) with a guarantee of safety for everyone around him.[/QUOTE] i think this is a weird thing to say and it reminds me of chopping people's hands off for stealing i'd rather see an attempt at someone being rehabilitated than an unnatural quick-fix for the issue

[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;38414694]i think this is a weird thing to say and it reminds me of chopping people's hands off for stealing i'd rather see an attempt at someone being rehabilitated than an unnatural quick-fix for the issue[/QUOTE] Unless you're porn star, I'm pretty sure no longer being able to be aroused by things isn't quite as debilitating as having your hands chopped off.

it's pretty fucking degrading though to the point of animalistic. not as degrading as rape of course, that's one of the lowest things that can happen to a person, but i was thinking we lived in a developed world where an eye for an eye was no longer relevant?

[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;38414853]it's pretty fucking degrading though to the point of animalistic. not as degrading as rape of course, that's one of the lowest things that can happen to a person, but i was thinking we lived in a developed world where an eye for an eye was no longer relevant?[/QUOTE] How is that an eye for an eye? It's more like making somebody wear sunglasses for an eye.

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;38412906]How come nobody has picked up yet on the fact that he referred to said women as objects? Seriously, that's creepy as hell.[/QUOTE] lots of psychopaths view people as objects, thats why they can do what they do with little or no remorse, its like hurting a tomato to them

why would anybody hurt a tomato that's sick

[QUOTE=Mingebox;38414883]How is that an eye for an eye? It's more like making somebody wear sunglasses for an eye.[/QUOTE] i dont care what dumb metaphor gets used it's still way shitter than actually sorting the person out properly and reintegrating them into society fully rather than castrating them like a dog

[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;38415253]i dont care what dumb metaphor gets used it's still way shitter than actually sorting the person out properly and reintegrating them into society fully rather than castrating them like a dog[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure castrating them like a dog would involve cutting their balls off, not giving them pills. I don't really see how it's any different to giving someone anti-schizophrenia medication.

[QUOTE=Mingebox;38415374]I'm pretty sure castrating them like a dog would involve cutting their balls off, not giving them pills.[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure that you're being incredibly pedantic for no good reason

[QUOTE=Dori;38415392]I'm pretty sure that you're being incredibly pedantic for no good reason[/QUOTE] Nah.

Stop being such a mingebox

[QUOTE=Mingebox;38414883]How is that an eye for an eye? It's more like making somebody wear sunglasses for an eye.[/QUOTE] No, it's more like blinding a man permanently with acid instead of fixing his problematic vision.

Because this guy says "I know I was doing wrong" does not mean he knows he was doing wrong. People do lie, especially ones arrested for major crimes. If you read about his childhood you'll see that he's caused problems, including criminal, since he was very young. This guy seems more like a psychopath to me, a person who does what he wants including hurting other people and does not stop until jailed. Castration would not help, since he'd still offend just in other ways. Sex for him is an outlet, not the cause.

[QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;38415686]No, it's more like blinding a man permanently with acid instead of fixing his problematic vision.[/QUOTE] Except for the part where it isn't permanent, and doesn't use acid, and is nowhere near as bad as being blind.

[QUOTE=-Get_A_Life-;38410106]This is sad. I still think we should offer the choice of chemical castration to alleged rapists. It's not that bad considering he could have a "normal life" (well, more of a normal life than the one he's depicting) with a guarantee of safety for everyone around him.[/QUOTE] While castration could reduce sexual urges and render a man infertile, it doesn't necessarily fix the underlying psychological issues that causes rapists to rape people.

[QUOTE=hypno-toad;38416444]While castration could reduce sexual urges and render a man infertile, it doesn't necessarily fix the underlying psychological issues that causes rapists to rape people.[/QUOTE] I wouldn't be so sure, high sexual levels can change people completely. Obviously he'd still need therapy.

[QUOTE=Mingebox;38414845]Unless you're porn star, I'm pretty sure no longer being able to be aroused by things isn't quite as debilitating as having your hands chopped off.[/QUOTE] it's illegal under international law and a violation of human rights we're not gonna chop off people's fucking genitals for doing bad shit that is absolutely ridiculous and inhumane