You make some very very good points smooth. You can't lump the whole group together.. it just isn't right. Also, I'm not sure where, but I saw a stat that said that women offend more than men do. The only reason you don't hear about it is because of the double standard. It's almost a bragging right for boys to have sex so they don't report it as a sexual assault or anything of the nature. Just thought I'd throw that out there.
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It also isn't very responsible journalism to report these extremely anomalous cases as if they were the norm. So four or so cases have been reported now, yet tens of thousads of offenders have not been reoffending in that same timeframe. Do we really need to chop everyones balls off or send people to siberia in light of the fact that just a few people have actually reoffended like that? Seems to me like those people could have stayed in prison or carefully monitored in their homes without too much extra expense from the justice system.
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I think you're dead on with this. When a case does occur (i.e. the sick fuck in Florida) then there should also be some sort of story about the sex offenders who are out trying to rebuild their lives and are doing well in society. I guess that doesn't make for sensationalist news though. How sad.