Aaron Pace Pleads Guilty To Killing Toddler With Drain Cleaner

How low of an IQ are we talking here? Are we talking retarded? Because even though i love my sister who has Down Syndrome dearly, i would never let her babysit my 3 and 5 year old kids on her own. A lot of the time you will see that people with very low IQ or mentally handicapped need everything according to a very strict schedule – it’s how they make sense of a very complicated world around them. Anything that fucks up their routine (which a 20 month old child is bound to do) sends them over the edge. I have seen my sister completely lose it when dinner was 10 minutes late once. I think i’ll reserve judgement on this guy until i find out more about his mental faculties.

I was thinking the same, I’m always baffled when a perpetrators family, especially one that has admitted to committing the crime, gets belligerent the court room and threaten the VICTIMS family. I think that family’s gene pool needs a little drain cleaner.

I’ll pass judgement. I don’t care how low his IQ is. He was smart enough to know drain cleaner would hurt. Maybe he didn’t mean to kill the kid but that child suffered horribly and turnabout is fair play. I would give this monster a drain cleaner enema any day of the week and not feel bad about it. People that hurt/kill/rape kids need to get death sentences. Period.

Pace, who was described by his defense attorney as having a low IQ, apologized to the victim’s family. “I just want to say to the family that I’m sorry for what happened,” Pace said. “I never meant this to happen and it hurts me more than anything that he’s gone. I have to take responsibility for this.”

There it is again: “happened.” Like caustic chemicals just appeared out of thin air and rubbed themselves on the child’s body. “I never meant this to happen…” As if when he was rubbing drain cleaner on the child, he thought it would be soothing, but surprise! the chemical composition of the substance he was using suddenly just up and changed to lethal and caustic right before his very eyes. “…it hurts me more than anything that he’s gone.” Yeah, ’cause it’s all about you, you piece of shit, and how much it hurts you that “he’s gone.” As if he’s just stepped into another room or moved out of state instead of being fucking dead, you worthless bastard. Even the one sentence that he manages to get semi-right has amelioration: “I have to take responsibility for this.” Rather than, I have to take responsibility for murdering an innocent defenseless child.

When defendants make these kind of weaselly statements of “guilt” the system ought to tack and additional 5 years on, just so they can ponder the correct language for what they have done. “I just want to say to the family that I am sorry for cruelly murdering your child. I committed a gawdawful crime for which I can never properly make amends, and have harmed you beyond the power of time to repair. I take responsibility for murdering your little boy and I will spend the rest of my life doing penance for this horrible crime.” There, dickwad, I fixed that for you.

Again, my apologies for the rant.

Absolutely fucking perfect. Yours is the comment I made in my head as I read this “apology” but was too lazy this morning to type it.

They should all be at least found in contempt or arrested for harassment. How classless can you be? It’s clear ignorance like that, that makes me think that Hitler was on the right track with the idea of population cleansing. He just made the mistake that a certain race or religion was what it should be based on. It’s clearly just a matter of how ignorant someone is.

“Amelioration”? Sexy. You’re welcome to rant any time.

“… then rubbed the caustic substance into the boy’s skin with a rag.”

Funny how someone with a low IQ doesn’t have burns to his hands.

You go right on ranting and I’ll go right on cheering you. The other thing that always pisses me off no end is when a “quantifier” is tagged on. “He rubbed drain cleaner….but he has a low IQ…” So, his low IQ made him kill the baby. Brilliant. Not only did he kill this baby, but he traumatized a whole boatload of people as well. It’s just not the sight of sloughing skin, but the smell of burnt flesh and knowing there is nothing one can do to make the pain go away that will haunt these people. It’s something I’ve never forgotten.

The thing is, it’s not that easy. My sister eg literally is a child in an adult’s body. She doesn’t get that the consequence might be so serious, just like a child doesn’t see the dangers in eg balancing on top of the first floor banister rail. I’m not saying this guy is definitely like that too, but in my sister’s reasoning I can kind of see the “he doesn’t want a bath, I know, I’ll give him a good clean with this stuff – works wonders for the sink”

http://www.dpw.state.pa.us/ucmprd/groups/webcontent/documents/document/p_012760.pdf Here’s the DHS report on the fatality. Says here that Pace raped a 9 year old girl at 17 and also bit a 3 year old in the face previously. Charming.

So he was a well qualified babysitter.

Fucker never should have been around this little guy!

I’m so tired of the “low IQ” excuse. I am expected to teach ALGEBRA to these same low IQ people, and then the defense when they commit a crime is they didn’t know right from wrong? I submit that algebra is more difficult to grasp as an abstract than the basic ideal of right and wrong.

I am wondering if the victim’s parent found this babysitter on Craigslist?

In a link from the.earlier article that jaded wrote, it says he was the little guys “God father “. I don’t know why the quotations were used, but if the mother knew him well enough to even refer to him as god father, then she damn well knew about his past, and mental

While I agree with pretty much all of that, I think it’s important to keep in mind that most likely not one word of that apology was actually composed by the defendant. Either his lawyer or his family is putting words in his mouth.

Which, really, makes it even more revolting, to me at least.

Presumably the guy’s family was aware of his past. If they were aware that he was working as a babysitter and did nothing to stop it, they should all be charged with endangering children.

I absolutely agree; it’s not that easy. And I can understand the reasoning behind actions. However, I was responding to this:

“The boy’s babysitter, Aaron Pace, admitted he got angry when the toddler became cranky and uncooperative during bath-time, so he grabbed a container of drain-cleaning crystals and then rubbed the caustic substance into the boy’s skin with a rag.”

To me, this doesn’t show “baby doesn’t want a bath, I’ll give him a good clean with this stuff”.

To me, Aaron Pace’s actions show intent to harm; he was administering punishment to a baby that was fussy during bath time.

Then to justify his actions, his lawyer offers up the defense of low IQ. This greatly bothers me; the same with offering up mental illness for the Sandy Hook killings. The implication is that the mentally retarded and mentally ill cannot be trusted because they are incapable of knowing right from wrong and/or control their actions. It’s a generalization that targets a specific group and is harmful.

If Aaron truly did not know right from wrong or that rubbing drain cleaner on a child would cause harm or death because he lacked the ability to understand the consequences of his actions due to having a low IQ, then I would have absolutely no problem defending Aaron or anyone else for that matter. But in this case, I don’t see that.

This should have never been plead down. Based on his past as a child rapist and now a child torturer/murderer he is the scum of the earth. How does this man get a deal while others who kill people who abuse them throughout their life get LWOP or DP? The system is so backwards and applied unevenly.

This is where I hope inmate justice will take over and he gets exactly what he did to that little innocent boy. Low IQ is not an explanation or an excuse.

I agree but he will suffer for killing my grandson!!!

no apologies needed. Thank you for sharing your thoughts for my family!

My point exactly as his grandmother I’m still hurting that I will never get to hold my grandson again!!!

there were none! this is made up stuff and the whole story is not here

Hang on, I just read that the baby was your family. I’m sorry this idiot got hold of him. Pace must have come from bad stock if his family thought to “get revenge” for him going to jail.

Why was this man alone with the baby in the first place? Where was the mother?? She too should be held responsible for doing such a dumb thing!