Mother sets fire to her daughter's gloating rapist
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[quote=The Telegraph]A Spanish mother has taken revenge on the man who raped her 13-year-old daughter at knifepoint by dousing him in petrol and setting him alight. He died of his injuries in hospital on Friday.
Antonio Cosme Velasco Soriano, 69, had been sent to jail for nine years in 1998, but was let out on a three-day pass and returned to his home town of Benejúzar, 30 miles south of Alicante, on the Costa Blanca.
While there, he passed his victim's mother in the street and allegedly taunted her about the attack. He is said to have called out "How's your daughter?", before heading into a crowded bar.
Shortly after, the woman walked into the bar, poured a bottle of petrol over Soriano and lit a match. She watched as the flames engulfed him, before walking out.
The woman fled to Alicante, where she was arrested the same evening. When she appeared in court the next day in the town of Orihuela, she was cheered and clapped by a crowd, who shouted "Bravo!" and "Well done!"
A judge ordered her to be held in prison and undergo psychiatric tests, provoking anger from friends and neighbours, who have set up a petition calling for her release.
Soriano suffered 60 per cent burns in the attack on June 13 and was airlifted to a specialist unit. He survived for 11 days before succumbing to his injuries.
It is understood that the woman, who cannot be named because of laws safeguarding the identity of rape victims, claims to have no recollection of the attack which took place in the Bar Mary, just 300 yards from the family home.
As decorators painted over the blackened walls of his bar last week, Antonio Ferrendez Lopez told how Soriano had walked in at lunchtime.
"The place was packed with people eating. I was sitting at a table and Soriano was standing at the bar very close to me when the woman walked in," he said. "She didn't acknowledge anyone but walked up to Soriano, who was drinking a coffee, put her hand on his shoulder and turned him round to face her.
"Then she pulled the bottle she was carrying from under her arm and began to tip it over him. At first I didn't realise what was happening, but then I smelt the petrol. I jumped up and tried to grab her, but when she struck a match I got clear.
"The petrol was in a pool around Soriano, and she threw the match into it. It ignited with a whoosh, and he screamed and staggered about covered in flames. As people rushed outside to escape the flames, she just looked at him, then turned and walked away."
Customers helped Mr Lopez put out the fire with extinguishers and doused Soriano with water until paramedics arrived.
Soriano's attack on the woman's teenage daughter took place in 1998. The girl was going to buy a loaf of bread when Soriano snatched her from the street, threatened her with a knife and raped her. Her mother is said to have suffered mental illness ever since.
Soriano was convicted of the rape and ordered to serve 13 years in jail. The sentence was later reduced to nine years on appeal.
The woman's lawyer, Joaquín Galant, told The Sunday Telegraph last night: "The family has suffered a double tragedy. First the attack on their daughter and now this. Both the father and his daughter would like to express their sadness at the death of Soriano."
Earlier, Mr Galant said that the woman did not deserve to be kept in prison. "For seven years she has been deeply affected by what was done to her daughter," he said. "This man, fresh from prison and asking how her daughter was, might be considered to have provoked her."[/quote]
I want to say "Go Mom!", but I know it still isn't right.
Good riddance to that fucker.
Of course everyone will rate anyone that says something along these lines dumb.
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Shortly after, the woman walked into the bar, poured a bottle of petrol over Soriano and lit a match. She watched as the flames engulfed him, before walking out.
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It's like a mother fucking action movie.
Holy fucking shit
Being burned alive for something you've already paid for is not a bravo, dumbasses.
What a fucking psycho. I hope she gets sent to jail permanently.
Before you rate me box. Read the article, he has served his time in jail already.
Damn thats just messed up
I mean, I know he's an asshole for raping her, but I think burning him in a fuel-fire is a little bit overboard
this story is just all kinds of fucked up
Wow, he was 69 and raped a 13-year-old? I know it isn't necessarily justified to kill him, but he seemed like a genuinely shitty person with no redeemable qualities whatsoever. What kind of a sick person rapes somebody AND antagonizes the mother of the victim about it? That's just horrible in every conceivable way.
That's fucked. I understand the temptation, sure, but she went and obviously found petrol, found matches and then came back to light him up. That's got so much involved that it wouldn't even be 'in the moment'.
Sounds like the comment just caused her to snap. The article states she was already unstable following the original assault, taunting her must've just pushed things a bit too far.
It's good she's getting a mental evaluation, and hopefully they try to help her get well instead of throwing her into a concrete room to rot.
I knew Pyro is Spanish
So rape, which as horrible as it may be, did not cause death, is responded to with murder by burning? That's absolutely insane.
How many of you would honestly sit back as a man taunted you about raping your daughter. What are you fucking ghandi or buddha?
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;37532968]What a fucking psycho. I hope she gets sent to jail permanently.
Before you rate me box. Read the article, he has served his time in jail already.[/QUOTE]
I really don't know what kind of reaction somebody is supposed to have to having their daughter raped. "Oh, she'll walk it off." Revenge isn't normally justified, but really, I'd do it anyway regardless of me being sent to jail or not. Rape is a serious subject. Even if it was years ago, he taunted her about. That's like killing somebody's son/daughter in front of their sibling/parent/whatever and going "(s)he lived a horrible life, (s)he deserved it! Hah!", you're [i]not[/i] going to respond calmly. Especially if you're reminded of it. A grudge is a dangerous thing to hold.
That's fairly... cinematic sounds like the wrong word, but it is really like something you'd see in a movie.
You guys do realize what he said as he passed by pretty much proves he wasn't taught a lesson in jail. I cannot express how STUPID it is for him to go back near the victims and taunt them.
I mean, I want to say he deserved it but at the same time it's just too far.
[QUOTE=jakedog;37533027]How many of you would honestly sit back as a man taunted you about raping your daughter. What are you fucking ghandi or buddha?[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't have resorted to fire baptism, but he's got a point.
[QUOTE=jakedog;37533027]How many of you would honestly sit back as a man taunted you about raping your daughter. What are you fucking ghandi or buddha?[/QUOTE]
I would damn well hope so, I don't think my hypothetical daughter would be able to cope with herself after just being raped too well if her father was in prison for murder.
Aha! Now [I]that's[/I] the good old Facepunch way to respond to something!
She went overboard, but it's kind of understandable.
Go ahead and rate me dumb FP, And rant on about how we should just "rehabilitate" this guy, But imho, The fucker got what he deserved.
[QUOTE=Sr.;37532961]Being burned alive for something you've already paid for is not a bravo, dumbasses.[/QUOTE]
[quote]Antonio Cosme Velasco Soriano, 69, had been sent to jail for nine years in 1998, but was [b]let out on a three-day pass[/b] and returned to his home town of Benejúzar, 30 miles south of Alicante, on the Costa Blanca.
While there, he [b]passed his victim's mother in the street and allegedly taunted her about the attack.[/b] He is said to have called out "How's your daughter?", before heading into a crowded bar.[/quote]
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hey guys just so you know, you're rating winner for a person getting killed for a crime he was already punished for
i mean i know some people on facepunch get erections over violence, but this is grievous bodily harm resulting in 11 days of torture caused by burns, a crime at least as heinous as rape.
[QUOTE=McCarthy;37533055]Go ahead and rate me dumb FP, And rant on about how we should just "rehabilitate" this guy, But imho, The fucker got what he deserved.[/QUOTE]
He got murdered for verbal harassment of the mother of the victim of a crime he already served nine years in prison for, and that's deserved?
[QUOTE=thisispain;37533071]hey guys just so you know, you're rating winner for a person getting killed for a crime he was already punished for
i mean i know some people on facepunch get erections over violence, but this is grievous bodily harm resulting in 11 days of torture caused by burns, a crime at least as heinous as rape.[/QUOTE]
KillaGunna24 provides a good point: the rapist didn't learn a single thing.
[QUOTE=thisispain;37533071]hey guys just so you know, you're rating winner for a person getting killed for a crime he was already punished for
i mean i know some people on facepunch get erections over violence, but this is grievous bodily harm resulting in 11 days of torture caused by burns, a crime at least as heinous as rape.[/QUOTE]
His punishment obviously had no effect if he's taunting the mother of the girl he raped. I'm not saying he deserved being burned to death, but he sure as hell deserved more than what the justice system gave him.
[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;37533092]KillaGunna24 provides a good point: the rapist didn't learn a single thing.[/QUOTE]
uh
so??
that's the failure of Spain's jail system
what kind of precedent does that set exactly?
[QUOTE=jakedog;37533027]How many of you would honestly sit back as a man taunted you about raping your daughter. What are you fucking ghandi or buddha?[/QUOTE]
None of us are suggesting that we wouldn't have done the same, but she still requires help and doesn't just deserve to get off scott free, if even just for her own sake.
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