You've Got To Be Kidding Me...!

File this one from Michelle Malkin under the kind of stupid insanity that is increasingly plaguing America due to political correctness:

Your Wednesday morning blood-boiler comes from Raynham, MA. Over the weekend, the Raynham Enterprise News reported that a father had blown the whistle on an elderly, non-English-speaking grocery worker who allegedly reached under a bathroom stall and groped his 4-year-old son's leg. The suspected molester has been charged with indecent assault and battery on a child. The police are also filing assault charges against the father.

Excerpt from the article itself:

One Raynham father is taking justice into his own hands, warning other parents this week about an alleged "predator" who he says groped his 4-year-old son in a supermarket bathroom last month.

Police said the suspect, an elderly janitor at Market Basket, allegedly reached under a bathroom stall partition and touched the boy's calf while the child was standing on a bucket June 1. The boy's enraged father, who police said saw it happen, allegedly flung open the adjacent stall and punched the janitor, giving him a cut on his lip and a welt on the middle of his head.

The employee, Valerio Rodriguez, 71, of Providence, allegedly told police through a translator "that he was wrong for touching the little boy. " Although Rodriguez faces a felony charge, the father, Jason R. Beatrice, 31, was reportedly horrified to see him still cleaning floors at Market Basket when he visited the store July 4. "He was pushing a mop bucket smiling at children," reads an anonymous flier, which police said Beatrice authored and distributed in Raynham.

You've got to be kidding me!!!  First of all, why can't this guy speak English?  The article doesn't say, but I'd like to know if Rodriguez is here illegally.  Apparently this reporter doesn't feel that's an important point to investigate.  Even if he is legal, where's the assimilation?  There is none, another illustration of a growing problem.  Second, why did this store let this guy continue working?  He admitted groping a child...sure, the legal stuff is yet to be played out, but come on!  Does this store not see this guy as a danger?  What if Rodriguez -- between now and his arraignment at the end of July -- does this again and molests another kid?  The store will be nailed to the wall for not protecting its customers from a known liability.  It's irresponsible by allowing someone who is a known potential danger to the public to be in that position.

Finally, the duh factor: this father should never have been charged for defending his kid!  What has happened to common sense in this country?  What has happened to our justice system that defending a 4-year old child from being groped by a stranger is considered a crime??  This is just stupid.  Mr. Beatrice, good for you!

For the record, if anyone touches either of my kids like Rodriguez did, I will gladly become a felon by pounding his face into the concrete.

There's my two cents.