Aaron Spencer charged with murder after shooting alleged rapist in Arkansas

A travesty of justice is unfolding in Arkansas, but it surely’s not too late to cease it.

At 1:12 a.m. on the morning of October 8, 2024, Aaron Spencer and his spouse woke as much as discover their 13-year-old daughter lacking from her mattress. Spencer’s spouse referred to as 911, whereas Spencer jumped into his automobile and sped into the evening, determined for any hint of his lacking youngster. He hadn’t gone far when he noticed Michael Fosler’s truck, along with his daughter inside.

Fosler was no stranger to the Spencers. In July of that 12 months, Fosler allegedly raped Spencer’s daughter, leading to his indictment on 43 separate prices, together with sexual assault of a minor, web stalking of a kid and possession of kid pornography. Lonoke County prosecutors dealt with the case and it ended up on the desk of Circuit Decide Barbara Elmore. It is a bit unclear who dropped the ball – Lonoke County, Decide Elmore, or some mixture of the 2 – however what we all know for positive is that this harmful youngster molester was launched on a $5,000 bond, with a restraining order to forestall additional abuse of Spencer’s daughter. Then got here October 8 and neither the deposit nor the contactless order had been well worth the paper they had been printed on.

Aaron Spencer has introduced he’s working for sheriff in Arkansas, a 12 months after he was arrested for allegedly taking pictures his teenage daughter’s accused rapist. (Aaron Spencer/Fb)

Spencer’s actions at that second had been nothing in need of heroic. He ran Fosler’s truck off the highway, gun in hand, and ordered him to launch his daughter. As an alternative, Fosler fought again, and the combat ended when Spencer emptied his firearm into Fosler. Spencer then rescued his daughter from the truck and referred to as 911.

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Spencer ought to by no means have been on this state of affairs. He should not have saved his daughter from a monster. However as a result of domestically elected prosecutors and judges failed him, that was the place he was positioned in. Amazingly, the prosecutor not solely didn’t take any accountability for what had occurred; he charged Aaron Spencer with second-degree homicide. And would not you recognize it, the choose within the case was none aside from Circuit Decide Barbara Elmore.

Decide Elmore took quick motion to maintain this case hidden from the general public, issuing a gag order on anybody who had any reference to the case and stopping them, beneath penalty of contempt of court docket, from talking to the press or public concerning the case. Gag orders aren’t that uncommon, however this gag order was so intensive and so intrusive that the Arkansas Supreme Courtroom stepped in and declared it unconstitutional, ruling that it was “on its face a transparent, manifest, apparent and gross abuse of discretion and exceeded his authority.”

Decide Elmore was undeterred. Regardless of the constitutional proper that each defendant has to a public trial, she successfully closed the trial to the general public, considerably limiting the seats out there to the general public, the media, and even Spencer’s personal protection group. Elmore did this with out providing any various strategy to view the method, and with none evidentiary listening to or judicial findings to justify it. For the folks of Arkansas, it appeared the answer had been discovered. The choose who as soon as deserted Aaron Spencer’s daughter now wished to verify his trial was as secretive as she may muster.

Luckily, the Arkansas Supreme Courtroom intervened once more and overturned the choose’s order. However they did not cease there. The Supreme Courtroom took the extraordinary step of eradicating Decide Elmore from the case. The bizarre treatment confirmed how egregious her habits had turn out to be.

Aaron Spencer was accused of killing a person suspected of preying on his daughter. (Lonoke County Detention Middle)

This is step one in the direction of justice, but it surely shouldn’t be the final. The prosecutor ought to drop this case altogether.

Not that the prosecutor’s habits so far has been indicative of excellent judgment. Statements from prosecutors on this case aren’t solely embarrassing; they need to be bothering the folks of Arkansas. Prosecutors advised that Spencer’s offended feedback from July — when he found his daughter had been raped by Fosler — had been in some way proof of his intentions in October. By no means thoughts that such anger can be the pure response of any father. And it would not matter that Spencer did not observe down and kill Fosler within the weeks and even months that adopted; he shot him whereas saving his daughter from one other kidnapping by Fosler.

Prosecutors additionally advised that Spencer ought to have merely referred to as 911 when he noticed his daughter within the truck with Fosler. {That a} father ought to hand over pursuing his daughter’s kidnapper and rapist within the hope that the police can arrive in time to avoid wasting her is so astonishingly absurd that it boggles the thoughts that any prosecutor charged with defending and defending residents and victims of crime would tolerate this.

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However the elimination of Decide Elmore and the related delay in Spencer’s trial present a chance to finish this farce. The native prosecutors ought to drop this case. The legal professional common ought to decline to defend a conviction within the unlikely occasion {that a} jury returns one. And the governor should promise to do all the things in her energy to pardon Spencer, if that is what it takes. To do in any other case can be to show the legislation on its head and depart everybody in Arkansas on the mercy of the predators who would victimize them and their kids.