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Do you think that all child sexual abusers should go to prison?

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by doodlethenoodle on January 29th, 2008

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  • Firebrand
    Firebrand Jan 29th, 2008 Abusing a child would if I had my way carry immediate physical, not chemical castration and either a death penalty or Life with no parole.

    I certainly do not and would never apologize for my views.
    In fact I would happily be the executioner.

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  • Mini_kilt
    Mini_kilt Jan 29th, 2008 No. I know it's not a popular opinion, I know I'm going to get downrated.

    Laws need to be changed in order to distinguish abuse from consentual couples. Right now there are MANY teenagers who have been convicted of sexual crimes against a minor for engageing in acts with a partner a year or two their junior (sometimes a year or two their senior as well). These cases are ridiculous and end up with people on sexual offender lists who are of no harm to the general population (in that respect).

    Also I think pedophiles do not benefit from any sort of prison system. I think in North America (and in other parts of the world) prison systems are more effective at breeding criminals then they are at correcting problems.

    I think a good alternative is manditory Pschyciatric treatment along with enforcable rules about being around children, possibly in adult only communities, I don't know. I don't have the answer, but I think prison is a bad solution, these people can still contibute to society.

    Yes, I am a mother.

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  • ICU says April is Autism Awareness Mo.
    ICU says April is Autism Awareness Mo. Oct 16th, 2008 Personally, I dont think child molesters can be rehabilitated. Prison for life or death. We need to protect our children. I am a victim and know that my innocence as a child was taken from me that day.

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  • caligo
    caligo Mar 9th, 2008 Only if they get put in general population.Speaking as someone who has been to prison I can say that if the rest of the prisoners got a hold of the child abuser he would get paid back in full.

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  • Anonymous Jan 29th, 2008 I think they should get raped daily, in prison, for the rest of their life.

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  • Rince
    Rince Jan 29th, 2008 I think they should go to HELL, but prison while they are waiting, yep.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Jul 27th, 2008 NO! I most certainly do not! That would be a waste of tax payer's money! A cheap bullet to the head on the town square would be more fitting. Child predators are the worst type of gutter scum out there and much more should be done to rid the world of them completely!

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  • seanmcox
    seanmcox Mar 19th, 2008 I think most/many should be shot... expeditiously.
    Others, I think, might simply do with some therapy.
    There's probably a prison medium.

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  • squarepeg
    squarepeg Mar 14th, 2008 i'm not sure..i was sexually abused, and i think alot of them were abused themselves. if they can recieve help in prison, i'd be all for it.

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  • Daneca
    Daneca Mar 9th, 2008 While I absolutely abhor such behavior, I believe the psych ward would be a more appropriate place. These are people too and need help. They were more than likely abused themselves. I'm not saying go to rehab for a few months and be let out. I'm talking a long long time.

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  • I love my baby
    I love my baby Jan 29th, 2008 Without the benefits.

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  • uncacal
    uncacal Jan 8th, 2009 Just transfer them to a new parish.

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  • willameenapuddleduck
    willameenapuddleduck Nov 6th, 2008 they shouldnt go to prison, they should be hanged.

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  • Karen J
    Karen J Nov 4th, 2008 I think jail is not enough. Just turn them over to people who love those kids and let them handle it.

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  • Happy to be me
    Happy to be me Nov 4th, 2008 Yes, and i think they should have a horrible accident on the way there. And once inside prison, well they are on there own.

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  • Gecko
    Gecko Oct 23rd, 2008 My daughter was sexually abused by her father when she was 3.
    As far as I am concerned, I think that they should all be put through what they did to a child. Maybe when they have it done to them, they will understand what they put that child through.
    Or you could just send them to prision and tell all the inmates what they are there for. They will take of the person for you. They have no tolerance for that behavior.
    I am usually a very nice person and only answer questions that I have knowledge in. I always have a positive attitude. This is a touchy subject and I cannot remain silent or understanding.

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  • Theby
    Theby Sep 27th, 2008 They should be physically castrated first.

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  • Brina
    Brina Sep 13th, 2008 yes they should and they should stay there and be castrated.

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  • Brittany Anna Riley
    Brittany Anna Riley Sep 13th, 2008 bieng sexual abbused as a younger child i think the should all die a very long and painfull death like being eaten alive by buzzurds o r ranoverf a ouple of times wit a 18 wheeler and maybe even decapitated

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  • starrrgazer
    starrrgazer Sep 8th, 2008 Yes, they should and should never be let out again, EVER.

    The problem with all the answers that say to do something to their genitalia is that they don't have to use that to abuse. Many pedophiles don't actually do so. They abuse through using their mouths, their hands, objects, whatever. It does not require having genitalia to sexually abuse.

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  • Morg the Army wife
    Morg the Army wife Sep 6th, 2008 I think they ought to be shot.

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  • kate3937
    kate3937 Sep 5th, 2008 No. I think the parents, family and friends should torture the sob until death.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Sep 2nd, 2008 The morgue is a better place.

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  • SUPERNOVA
    SUPERNOVA Sep 1st, 2008 yes they should

    and the other inmates should be allowed to make their lives total hell!!

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  • MissFerly
    MissFerly Mar 20th, 2008 I think they need to be rounded up and shot because there is no rehabilitation for these people.

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  • girlygirl
    girlygirl Mar 14th, 2008 They should go to a mental health facility

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  • uraseasquirt
    uraseasquirt Feb 3rd, 2008 no, they need to go to a mental institution.

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  • Teasdale
    Teasdale Jan 29th, 2008 No because I'm a taxpayer and don't want to pay for their sorrya**es to receive free room and board. Prison would be too easy. I think they should be strung up by their privates and swung at like a pinata. Zero tolerance for sexual abusers. Zero.

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  • Anti-Semantic - ORIGINAL All-Black Avatar
    Anti-Semantic - ORIGINAL All-Black Avatar Jan 29th, 2008 Prison or Psychiatric Institutions. If they go to prison, it shouldn't be with the murderers though. I saw a show on National Geographic Channel called Supermax Prisons; believe it or not, even hardened murderers have some morals - they won't touch child molesters...together with informants, child molesters are known as "untouchables", and they are sent into their own distinct section in the prison because in any other section they'd be killed instantly. I agree that molesters must be brought to justice, but nobody should just be thrown to the wolves.

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  • joejoe
    joejoe Oct 18th, 2009 I THINK THEY SHOULD BE TORTURED!!!!!!!!!

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  • have mercy love :( forgive me.
    have mercy love :( forgive me. Oct 13th, 2009 Agreed. And I hope they get raped or molested. The pain and trauma caused by such a despicable act is unforgivable. However forgiveness should be given, as it isn't one person's place to be able to be above forgiveness.

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  • catydid
    catydid Oct 10th, 2009 Yep, on the way to the chair.

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  • farseer
    farseer Aug 28th, 2009 on the spot castration

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  • MicrocosmicOrbit
    MicrocosmicOrbit Aug 22nd, 2009 Yes but did you know many of them were sexually abused?

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  • Mrs.Dufresne rediscovers Alana Davis
    Mrs.Dufresne rediscovers Alana Davis Aug 22nd, 2009 I think they should burn in hell.

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  • 123elementary
    123elementary Aug 20th, 2009 Anyone who takes advantage of whatever power they have, over anyone, should go to prison.

    If anyone raises their hand, their voice, or interferes with a child in a sexual away. They should go to prison.

    All of the above is ABUSE, and all of it is damaging for life.

    BUT,

    Instead of the general public blowing a lot of hot air, making all kinds of brutal remarks about how they'd cut heads off, or gathering and posturing outside a perpetrators home, for Pete's sake, think about the victims, think about what you can do to prevent such crimes, not only that, try to understand what causes such behaviour.

    It really is time the silly emotive responses were stopped, and a little brain power applied to this problem.

    We all know, and fully accept, children learn their behaviour.

    Now that statement doesn't mean you have to have been a victim of sexual assault to be a child sexual abuser, but it does mean you've been treated badly by someone somewhere, and it's the psychological damage that abuse has caused, which causes any person to behave in an antisocial way.

    WE can't just focus on the sexual abuser, because as I say, any kind of abuse perpetrated upon a child is damaging, and it's that very damage which causes the full range of antisocial behaviours.

    i.e. A sexually abused child can become a psychological abuser, a psychologically abused child can become a violent abuser, and a violently abused child can become a sexual abuser, or any and all of the above.

    The whole point is, we as a society must stop any kind of abuse being perpetrated upon our children, even that little tap on the bottom is humiliating and degrading for the child, that loud yell attracts attention and belittles the child, and of course, constant nasty remarks are psychologically destructive.

    Surely as adults all of us possess the ability to calmly, quietly and effectively, communicate with a little child.

    The more we practice that behaviour the more natural it will become, and the less monsters we'll create.

    You all know as adults how you feel when someone treats you badly, it damages you as a person, it humiliates and degrades you, and upsets your emotions.

    Remember this when you deal with thinking, feeling, and emotional children, because they feel the same way you do when they're a victim of any kind of abuse.

    When abusers of any kind are caught, we have judges who rely on the public in the form of witnesses,Police Officers to gather that information and any evidence, or expert opinions, a prosecution and defence lawyer, so that in the end, a fair and reasonable judgement of the alleged perpetrator can be made.

    Yes I know, some of the judgements seem poor, but that's always going to be, because one of the abovementioned has done a poor job, or witnesses harm the case, because of something they confuse.

    You have to be in a court room for the full trial taking all kinds of notes, before you can criticise any aspect of any case.

    To rely on the media to draw a clear and fair picture is a huge mistake, after all, the press is famous for "never letting the facts get in the way of a good story".

    After all of the above, it gets down to this, "PREVENTION".

    We all agree child abuse of any kind is extremely damaging, and that damage is for life, so screaming and yelling abuse at yet another so called monster, all happens way too late for the victims, and demonstrates to any child watching, a kind of behaviour which is just as bad as the behaviour of the person you're all yelling at.

    By gathering in a wild pack, you demonstrate loss of control, abuse of power, in that you're part of a mob all targeting one person, and violence, especially with much of what you all say in your emotional outbursts.

    To prevent future victim, you need to put all your anger, all your contempt, all that wasted energy into "PREVENTION" It's too late for the victims when you're carrying on about yet another abuser.

    All offenders need to be part of some kind of research which must be part of any sentence, especially any release back into society.

    All of society must work towards ending all kinds of abuse, because all kinds of abuse is what creates all kinds of abusers.

    Remember this, It really is too late for the Victim when you're abusing the perpetrator.

    If you really are serious about this horrible problem, then deal with it in an effective way, by getting involved in its PREVENTION.

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  • Maya
    Maya Aug 19th, 2009 If a person can do a thing like this it means that they have been very hurt themselves. I think rather than a prison sentence they should be castrated and sent to a mental hospital for ongoing treatment. What happens to children when its their father who does it and they have no mother or anyone else to turn to. i believe they are better off staying with their father rather than an orphanage, after he has been castrated and recieved mental help.

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  • TVcolor
    TVcolor Jun 5th, 2009 deathpenalty should be brought back for thous people

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  • Sam
    Sam May 27th, 2009 i think they should be taken into a field somewhere and shot is what i think!!

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  • Sharona Life is a Tale Told by an Idiot
    Sharona Life is a Tale Told by an Idiot May 25th, 2009 We all hate the actions of an abuser of kids. The real tragedy is these cretins were actually kids once and most of them had abuse in their childhoods. That in no way makes me want to coddle them. They must be punished, but prison does not do a damned thing to rehabilitate anyone that is mentally ill. They should be locked up, at this point in time since there seems to be no cure, maybe forever. But, we need to try some new approach. Forgetting for a moment the cost involved, because this is not my field of expertese, I would lock them up alone away from other criminal minds and only allow sane, normal info to flow into their minds reprogramming non perverted ideas into their heads. They should have classes, doctors, movies whatever, all to do with correcting this aberration. They do not need to ever be in the company of society again, necessarily, but at least not put them in a breeding ground of more crime by letting them mix with other perverts.

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  • Jokebat
    Jokebat May 23rd, 2009 They deserve death.

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  • ThisAnonymous1
    ThisAnonymous1 May 20th, 2009 If it was proven without a doubt that they are guilty, yes. Just a say-so shouldn't do it.

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  • molly
    molly May 19th, 2009 death penalty - they would only do it again when they got out of prison

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  • Wookster
    Wookster Feb 25th, 2009 Why should tax payers pay to keep them in prison? They should be tortured and shot.

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  • 0.0.0.0.0.0
    0.0.0.0.0.0 Jan 13th, 2009 When an over 18 year old adult, sexually abuses a child under 14 years of age, that person should get life in prison or the death penalty, no exceptions for any reason.
    For cases that do not fit that exact circumstance, we must have some lesser levels of punishment in order for our laws to be fair and reasonably applied.
    Teenagers that are dating and just happen to have one too many birthdays in age difference and the relationship consensually becomes sexually active is just not the same crime.
    In such cases, when the person that is a little older is convicted as a sexual predator, this is a total misapplication of laws intended to prevent violent crimes against children.

    From my own experience, I had sex the first time when I was 14 years old with a friend that even though we were about the same height, he was 17 years old.
    I didn't know or care at the time but it was perfectly legal as peer group sex in the state where we lived. This relationship went on for almost a year before he went away to college but in March of that year he had a birthday that put him over 18 years old and what had been legal, suddenly became illegal for him.
    I never considered myself to be a victim, he never forced me to do anything, and I have absolutely no regrets.
    I'm now 22 and he is 25 and even though we are in school in different states, we get together when we can and have actually had some serious talk of marriage.
    It is a terrible injustice to consider such relationships to be illegal and predatory.

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  • Halskiisaklink
    Halskiisaklink Jan 9th, 2009 Not if he's 19 and she's 15.

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  • Banned from Yahoo
    Banned from Yahoo Jan 8th, 2009 Nah I have a basement we can torture them there!

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  • Hypatia
    Hypatia Dec 23rd, 2008 No, they should only be transfered to another parish :)

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  • mz bjelus
    mz bjelus Nov 11th, 2008 i would say they get killed on the spot our world is goign to easy on punishment theses days its just not right

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  • Katey0718
    Katey0718 Nov 10th, 2008 Yes all Sexual abuser sould go to prison..After getting there thing cut off...

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