Child rapist runs away

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Shut Up.

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Originally posted by Fiend_85
Shut Up.

There's a surprise. :rolleyes:

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yeh it was such a surprise one could say it was almost warranted in your case :P

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Strange really that all child killers and rapists are constantly called 'sick' in the media, but we dont treat them as such.

There are secure hospitals you know, places where these people should be.

That way a panel of trained mental health workers could decide whether the person is safe to be back in the community.

This way the re-offending rate would go down and we wouldnt have to release people we knew to be dangerous.

But, we cant do this obviously sensible idea because it would be seen as 'going soft' on rapists.

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The judge doesn't pluck his decisions out of his bottom (much as it looks like it sometimes); if the defendant was given bail the judge was almost certainly given this advice by others. I think that, with hindsight, that the advice was wrong, though given the defendant's age obviously they didn't think that he would abscond.

J and bongbudda, it's very difficult. I fully accept and believe that people are created by their environment (it's rare to see a child killer from a happy family, for instance), but it's a very fine line between taking these circumstance into account and justifying people's behaviour with these circuimstances.

It's very easy to fall into the trap of putting everyone in moral incontinence pants in cases like this, where nobody is responsible for or accountable for their actions, their circumstances allowing them to claim that they couldn't help it and that it wasn't their fault. It was, and they need to be punished as such.

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I'm not really trying to explain away their actions, they are clearly guilty and it is really their fault.

But, its more complex than an ordinary criminal, punishment will not act as a deterant to sexual assults because it is, in the main, a compulsion that they feel they can not control.

It is more for the sentancing that I think they should be sectioned rather than put into prison. Because that way you could release them when they didnt pose a threat anymore and not before.

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Originally posted by bongbudda
It is more for the sentancing that I think they should be sectioned rather than put into prison. Because that way you could release them when they didnt pose a threat anymore and not before.

Could work, but they should lose all privaleges, like only be allowed visitors like how they would in a prison and stuff like that. They shouldnt be able to have the freedom if they went to somewhere like that.

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Originally posted by BeckyBoo
They shouldnt be able to have the freedom if they went to somewhere like that.

Freedom?

have you see Broadmoor?

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Originally posted by Kermit
Freedom?

have you see Broadmoor?

lol no

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Originally posted by Kermit
Freedom?

have you see Broadmoor?

Exactly, other dangerous offenders who are deemed mentally ill are held in places very much like prisons. Why not sex offenders?