This one really makes you think...
This man risks life in prison by turning over evidence in a crime he committed. But he did it anyway. Why? To protect a little girl. Bravo for him! Obviously, burglary is wrong and he should be punished, but he still did what he could to save another human being from unspeakable acts. And what he did put the monster in jail.
MercuryNews.com | 05/07/2006 | Risking a life term to protect a child:
Matthew Ryan Hahn glared in disbelief at the digital photographs of a man molesting a girl. She was only a year old, maybe 2.
The next thing to do would be obvious -- call police. But Hahn had been convicted of burglary more than once. And the memory card on which he discovered the photos came from a stolen safe.
Hahn knew being nabbed for another crime could make him a three-striker and send him to prison for life. But the images were burned into his mind. One photo showed some freshly overturned earth -- could the little girl already have been killed and buried?