Stephanie,

I too understand your position and share your anguish. I knew Brett Kinney, and he was a wonderfully innocent and astonishing individual. Mrs. Welden was very much the same, and neither deserves the fate they received!

Above all else, Mrs. Welden was a mother or mother figure to many, and her presence on our plane of existence will be sorely missed forever. You mentioned the quality of character or lack thereof that may be present within those who occupy our prison system, and you made some very valid points. They didn't get there as a result of being "nice" people, and in many cases, they would be the last people I would look to for justice. Try to understand though, that such institutions have two sets of societal rules: the one the system dictates, and the one they create for themselves in order to survive their incarceration. Theirs I believe is the stronger of the two in the long run because they must both live under it, and administer it. Their laws on the inside undoubtedly have fewer boundaries than what our outside society would allow

It has been noted in many accounts that inmates populating such institutions have little or no respect or regard for people who perpetrate crimes against helpless children and elderly folks (especially women). It is doubtful that all prisoners have children (or healthy relationships with any children), but it is an undeniable fact that each and every one of them has or did have a mother! Regardless of their present situation, their mothers brought them into this world, and there is and always will be a bond between mother and child! I firmly believe that this bond carries over with them as it does with most of us, and the vast majority of them see all mothers in the same light that they would see their own. Few of them could tolerate the thought of something like what Wick did. Not to their own mothers or to the mothers of any others. You may be correct, it could be nothing more than boredom with Rosie, and frankly I could care less. But I do think that they would make his remaining life a living Hell no matter what reasoning they conjured up. They say that there is honor among thieves, perhaps there is, and perhaps not. It really doesn't matter as long as he is appropriately dealt with. You never know, it could be that God might appoint the prisoners I mentioned as his messengers and allow Timothy wick to begin his eternity of suffering and payback right here in South Carolina.

I know that I must appear to be rather cold-hearted toward Wick, and I sincerely apologize to all of you here if I have offended you. I do not however have any apologies for this animal, and I feel he deserves the worst that we could imagine for him. My own mother lives on only in Heaven and in the hearts of those of us who loved her. Mrs. Welden is in the same place now, and I wouldn't feel that I had honored either of them if I had more liberal views toward Wick!