Ryan D. Firoved
Here’s another sorry excuse for a human being who doesn’t get it because he doesn’t want to.
Ryan D. Firoved, 37, of Kirkland, Washington, arranged with his girlfriend to meet in a local motel room, where he would rape her nine-year-old daughter.
When he arrived, he was met instead by Kirkland police officers. The horrified woman had contacted them after he made the suggestion.
Firoved, who is married – his wife (wisely) filed for divorce last March – is a previously convicted child molester. He was also under active investigation by the Seattle Police Department’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.
Of course, Firoved had an excuse for police when they snapped the cuffs on him: “It is made up, sick and a fantasy, but at the end of the day I never touched anyone,” Detective Alan O’Neill reported in the charging documents. Firoved said he had actually shown up at the motel to break up with the woman.
Yeah, and you never touched anyone only because you didn’t get the chance.
Anyway, the good people of King County didn’t buy it. On October 9, a jury convicted Firoved of attempted first-degree rape of a child. Superior Court Justice Douglass North sentenced him to ten years in prison, but the sentence allows Department of Correction Officials to hold him indefinitely if they believe he continues to pose a risk. This is a legal provision pioneered by by our close friends in Kansas, Peggy and Gene Schmidt, after their 20-year-old daughter Stephanie was raped and murdered by a paroled rapist.
Before making the suggestion that he rape her little girl, Firoved bragged to the woman that he had raped several other young girls.
And here’s the point of this particular – and particularly – sordid case: The woman told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that while Firoved admitted to being a pedophile, he felt this kind of rape was okay because it was “consensual.”
Now, what kind of idiot do you have to be to think that sex with a nine-year-old under any circumstances can be consensual? And the supposed “consent” of the mother doesn’t count.
The answer is that it doesn’t take any kind of idiot. It just takes someone who is so narcissistic and so driven by his perversion that he can twist anything around to serve his nefarious purposes.
Like Anthony Brinkman, the sadistic pervert in Missouri we wrote about earlier this week who wanted to watch as a woman beat and raped his own 11-year-old daughter, there is no hope for a guy like Ryan Firoved of ever being turned around or rehabilitated.
And there is no hope for us if we ever put him back on the street. Thank God for the Schmidts and Judge North’s sentence.
Offenders of this type cannot be cured. All science and medicine indicates that. Their very personalities are patterned on existing in fantasy and preying on children/ or their chosen victim type. If you cut off both his legs and one arm he would still fantasize and drag his torso along to commit the same crime again.
To lie to do it, twist to do it, do anything to do it and get away with it, is all these guys are about. I don’t think it will ever be safe to let him out until science perhaps finds some way to implant a whole new personality into deviant already built adult humans. We currently aren’t even close to that.
The problem is that this is an “hereditary” crime. People who were raped as children tend to become child rapists themselves. It’s like the legend of the vampire. Psychologically these people think that life exists on two levels: the things we are told are true and what really is true but not talked about. They assume that most people, like themselves, were raped as children and that they are performing an initiation. Better they, they tell themselves, than someone who might “harm” the child.
There is also an element of: “When I was a child I had to submit. Now it is my turn to be submitted to.”
I don’t judge these people harshly. “There but for fortune…” is my motto. I do agree that they cannot be rehabilitated but I don’t advise any sort of punishment. Executing them is simply expediently removing a problem. I don’t expect anyone to learn anything from their trials or their deaths.
Sometimes I think that “Old West Rules” should be applied in cases like this. Years ago many people think there just weren’t as many pedophiles as there are now–yes there was, they just didn’t live long. We did not have a system then that supported pedophiles and rapists and gave mocking sentences to these freaks, while there victims (if living) had life sentences. As I had mentioned before, there are just some things you don’t come back from–and child rape is one of them. These people are useless monsters who need to be culled from society. But what does our society do, in general? We smack them on the hand, give them ridiculously short sentences, then let them back into society where they will at the very least sexually offend, and will probably eventually escalate to murder to prevent getting caught. We, as a society, have taken away parameters of acceptable behavior and morality and just said, Oh its okay, you can do what you want, its fine, nothing’s your fault. This, my friends, is not the product of delusion, it is the product of a society that preaches entitlement and tolerates and makes excuses for monsters. And the worse thing is, there are so many cases where the additional horror is involved of the mothers of the children consenting to the behavior or even encouraging it, just to keep the man around. It honestly makes me ashamed to be a woman when I hear of cases like that.
How detached from reality does someone have to be to even think it’s okay to ask someone to do this for them? It’s hard to tell if they’re just that delusional or if they’re just that stupid. I’m leaning toward they’re just that desperate to do what they are driven to do. The definition of “depravity” just keeps getting darker and darker, doesn’t it?