Source: floridaphoenix.com 11/12/25
AG Uthmeier cites accusations against nanny who recorded himself molesting at least 5 children.
While announcing that Florida will seek the death penalty for a 36-year-old nanny indicted for raping multiple young children, including a three-year-old, Attorney General James Uthmeier called on the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to reverse a decades-old decision declaring it unconstitutional to execute child rapists.
Uthmeier stressed during a Brooksville press conference that Nathan _______, accused of videoing the rape of five children under 12 in Hernando County — with more rapes suspected statewide — is an example of why the U.S. Supreme Court needs to reconsider the 2008 precedent at issue.
“[This is] nothing more than pure evil,” Uthmeier said, imploring Floridians who have information on Nathan to contact his office. “Crimes like this against young children, where you take their innocence, you take their childhood away from them, these horrific acts deserve the ultimate form of justice.”
Nathan was arrested on Oct. 20 after a “Good Samaritan” notified the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office that he had child pornography on his phone, according to county Sheriff Al Nienhuis. What authorities found was “one of the most heinous investigations,” Rita Peters — special counsel to the attorney general who’s worked in the sex crimes unit for more than 25 years — had ever seen.
Nathan was indicted Monday by a Hernando grand jury on seven counts of …
This would be extremely stupid to allow. After all, if you can give death for a crime that did not result in a death, where does it stop? Does that mean any sexual crime regardless the age of the victim in worthy of death? If so, what about beating someone half to death, most likely causing lifelong injuries, should one get death for it, or what about drinking and driving, causing the death of innocents on the road, does the drive get death for his actions? The minute you allow them to use kids as a way to get around laws to legally kill people, no one is safe from said laws.
This man’s behavior is clearly worthy of condemnation. Anyone alive should have enough of a conscience to know that this is very wrong. That said, he had a chance when he was first prosecuted to turn his life around. I don’t know what drove this person to engage in this pattern of behavior, but it seems he never had enough self awareness or a conscience to question himself before he sealed his own fate.
He definitely should never see the free world again, but I don’t see him as so violently dangerous to people in general that he should be executed (of course that remains to be seen, should he lead a violent life against others in prison).
I believe life is sacred and we shouldn’t take it unless absolutely necessary. A life sentence, to me, is a more of a punishment than the death penalty. In my opinion he would better used as a living example to other people in prison of what happens when you fail to correct your life’s trajectory. Perhaps other people with sexual offenses would see his hopeless state, take heed, and seek rehabilitation to avoid a similar fate when they are released.
The big mistake here is that the most egregious cases of child sexual assault are often the most strongly contested in court–they often involve accusations being made years or decades after the offense, at which point there is little physical evidence and few witnesses. They also often involve “recovered memories,” or other pseudo-scientific phenomena that may be fashionable for a period and then fall into scientific disrepute later, which is important to consider in death penalty cases where appeals typically go on for 20 years. Do alleged victims really want to be taking the stand again and again, 20 years later?
SCOTUS has already upheld the death penalty for every single last PFR and their family by allowing the governmental hitlist to exist so why on earth would they stop the government from killing PFR now?
This is why I continue to say “In God we Trust” is just a moral justification for them to acknowledge and mete out punishment what THEY deem acceptable and appropriate. Because Christ was such a retaliatory and vengeace-seeking figurehead with his war against sin, right?
Nonsense.
Just know that everything “sex offense” related is 110% politically-driven.
I really don’t like the thought of having to live in a country where the constitution doesn’t matter. I know most of you other commenters won’t be around much longer but I’ll be around for at least the next 20 years. So frankly, things have to change somehow. There must be some mechanism to ensure the states comply with supreme court rulings.