Joel Hendon

A Crime Too Cruel To Comprehend: No Adequate Legal Punishment


Posted: Thursday, December 01, 2011

by Joel Hendon
http://hebronics.org/index.html

In June of 2007, Carmen Tarleton, 39, a registered nurse in Thetford, Vermont, lived with her two daughters, ages 12 and 14 at that time. She and her estranged husband, Herbert Rodgers, 52, were in the process of obtaining a divorce.

According to various archived accounts, Rodgers was angry about the situation and here is a quote from an article written after the sentencing of Rodgers.

During the spring of 2007, Rodgers grew angry with Tarleton, who he believed was seeing another man. He asked God to control his anger, but said unless he received guidance by his birthday on June 10, he would attack. Rodgers planned to break into Tarleton's Thetford home, kill a man he believed Tarleton was seeing, attack Tarleton and then slit his own throat. He plotted for a week, buying a dumbbell, a baseball bat, and industrial strength lye, which he poured into a squeeze bottle. (Concord Monitor, February 15, 2009)

According to police records and court documents, Rodgers did not receive the guidance he sought and on the morning after his birthday around 2:30 A.M., he drove to Tarleton’s home. He threw the dumbbell through the glass door and entered the house. Tarleton, thinking it was a burglary ordered the young girls to hide in a room and lock the door. They ran into the bathroom and locked it.

Then Rodgers shoved her onto the bed and hit her with the baseball bat, breaking her arm. He hit her again, fracturing her skull and eye-socket, then he tied her hands behind her back and squirted the lye all over her head and body. She suffered burns over 80% of her body. One doctor stated that the strong alkaline burns from lye is among the most painful, destructive and difficult to treat.

Her condition has stabilized, leaving her now with no vision in one eye, very little in the other eye, has difficulty breathing through her nose, and her facial features are actually grotesque. However, she has now been approved for a facial transplant with a grant for $3.4 million to cover the cost.

Rodgers pled guilty to one charge of maiming and was sentenced to 30 to 70 years in prison in February 2009. Had he not pled guilty, it is reported that he could have received a life sentence. However, with a minimum of 30 years beginning at age 53, amounts to virtually the same.

For a current update on this amazing lady with a photo of her current condition, please click http://www.whatsonningbo.com/news-5946-carmen-tarleton-woman-disfigured-by-hubby-in-lye-attack-to-get-face-transplant.html
Author Biography: Joel Hendon was born near Gadsden Alabama. He attended public schools in Cherokee County, Alabama and after serving a tour of duty in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, attended Jacksonville State University, majoring in Business Administration. He became a Christian in 1948, and although he followed secular work as a career and retired from Allied Signal Aerospace, he is an avid student of the Holy Bible and related works as well as biblical history. He has an extensive website of conservative religious and political articles.http://hebronics.org/index.html

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» left by The Old Gray Mare
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Dreadful. I hear some of these things and cannot fathom how people even concoct the evil deeds they carry out. I've been involved in a dreadful mess myself and have not yet put out the third installment where things got rotten in my own life. But at its worst, it wasn't so cold as this. It is articles like this that make you say thank heavens my head is on straight and may it stay that way for all the days of my life. Makes one thank the Creator for the life we have.
» left by Joel Hendon 171 days 19 hours ago.
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Indeed. Thanks for reading and commenting.
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