Father Posts ‘Wanted Dead or Alive’ Posters for Daughter’s Boyfriend, Gets 7 Years in Jail
By Matt Kiebus Wednesday, August 03, 2011What would you do if your 20 year-old daughter was dating a 33 year-old registered sex offender?
Dads are naturally protective of their kids. They attempt to instill qualities and morals that they should value and teach them responsibility. Sons are typically given a longer leash to stay out late and get in trouble, whether that is with friends, girls or the law. Their misdeeds are met with finger wag and a hard stare. Daughters, on the other hand, are an entirely different story.
Most dads are predetermined to be overprotective of their little girl, sometimes to a blinding fault. The majority of dads dread seeing their angel grow up for one reason — guys. Once a man becomes a father their memory of exactly how their gender functions, especially during the high school and college years, immediately refreshes in their mind. I imagine this moment is the one of the top 5 most anxiety-ridden in a man’s life.
A father’s worst nightmare is a daughter with bad taste in men, and/or slutty taste in clothes. And worst nightmares always come true.
Normally, fathers eventually learn how to contain the overprotective gene, stop overreacting and begin to trust their daughters.
That is, unless their 20 year-old daughter starts banging a 33 year-old registered sex offender. If that’s the case, then it’s perfectly okay to react with the rage of a WWE wrestler. That is to say it’s not exactly street legal.
“Domingos Jose Oliveira, 49, hung the posters around Grossmont College in El Cajon after his daughter brought home new beau Sean Kirk, 33. The posters offered a $3,000 bounty for the death of his daughter’s boyfriend.”Okay, well, that might be taking things a bit too far.
Prosecutors charged Oliveira with solicitation of murder, hate crimes, and making threats against his daughter. Oliveira was convicted on two counts and has been sentences to 7 years in prison.
The defense unsuccessfully argued that Oliveira was doing what any other protective father would do. I don’t think there is a father anywhere who is a-okay with their daughter dating a sex offender 13 years her elder, but where is the line?
According to the poll on the New York Daily News website only 7 percent of voters think Oliveria is a criminal, while a whopping 65 percent voted Oliveira “a protective dad. I wouldn’t want my daughter dating a 33-year-old sex offender either.” The other 28 percent thought he was a little of both.
As a 24-year-old who knows absolutely nothing about being a father and has always been petrified of the prospect of having daughters, I can’t fault the man too much. However, his anger was seriously misplaced. California isn’t the Wild West anymore—putting a bounty on someone’s head with flyers on a college campus isn’t looked upon kindly by authority-type figures — even if it’s for a sex offender.
Taking a bat to his Camero or locking your daughter in the basement for a year or two just seem like more fail safe plans.
[New York Daily News]
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