Bostonherald - Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe is pressing ahead with a felony assault charge that could put a paraplegic grandfather in the slammer for up to 10 years for whacking his 3-year-old granddaughter’s alleged molester with a Louisville slugger after setting a trap for his arrest. As a result of 57-year-old Martha’s Vineyard computer salesman Frank Hebert’s unconventional citizen’s arrest, Joshua A. Hardy, 27, of Middleboro, now faces child molestation charges in a second case out of Wareham involving another little girl, authorities tell the Herald. “I’m not a hero, that’s for damn sure,” Hebert, his voice cracking, said last night. “I’d do it again tomorrow, knowing the consequence. I didn’t have a choice. A 10-year-old kid could take me. This is not about me. This is about a tiny child. I would never tell her I took a risk for her. I’d tell her I loved her.” Hebert’s granddaughter is the child of his life partner’s daughter, but he considers her his kin. The child goes by a different name and her mom married the accused last summer. Hebert claims it was over Christmas that the tot began asking her grandparents to protect her. On Feb. 22, Hebert said his partner took her daughter and granddaughter, who were visiting, back to the mainland to talk to police, while he lured Hardy to his Mac PC Sales and Service shop in Vineyard Haven. Hebert said “fear” prompted him to bring a baseball bat to the rendezvous and call state police to back him up. Hebert said he pointed the bat at Hardy and ordered him to stay seated until police arrived, but Hardy, he said, stood up and laughed at him — and that’s when he used the bat. “All I had was a 39-inch-long baseball bat,” he said. “I never intended to hit him. If I was a standing man, I wouldn’t have brought a bat, but without it, I am a bloody ragdoll.”


First of all this cripple can spare me the sob story about how he never intended to use the bat to demolish this pervert.  Ya you did cripple.  Why else lure him to your PC shop?   Why not just call the cops and have them pick him up at his house?   Seems like that would be the safe play here.  So obviously he planned on kneecapping this fool.  But that doesn’t mean  he should be arrested or facing charges.   Guy is a god damn hero.  Sure it’s a little pretentious to get your picture taken with your blue tooth in, but that doesn’t change the fact this guy stood up for his 3 year old grand daughter and helped put a child molester in jail.    I mean it would be one thing if the guy he attacked turned out to be innocent but he’s not.   That’s the deal with frontier justice.  If you’re wrong you go to jail.   But if you’re right you should get a medal and be allowed to do whatever you want.  Kneecap, murder etc.  All in play for pedaphiles.