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mixedmedia · 03-05-2009, 04:15 AM

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Originally Posted by mikec

The article doesn't make complete sense to me either...maybe like ASU2003 said, he was visiting the previous year, and then moved in a year later.

as ngdawg said, level 3 is typically defined as an offender who has been determined to be a high risk of re-offending. So the real topic to debate isn't so much about the woman, it's more about, why the FUCK do sick fucks like this get let out into the world, into our communities, when they're high risk?

Sex offenders are not wired right. I'm no expert, but from all I've gathered on the subject, most pros think that there is no curing them. They might [MIGHT!] be able to try to control their urges, but the fact remains that the urges remain - whether it's rape or fucking with little kids...They might do their time, but let's face it, rehabilitation is pretty much non-existent...jail is punishment, not rehabilitation. If anything, people come out of jail with more connections than when they went in.

And let's not talk about how drug dealers get more jail time than sex offenders....definitely a different subject, but shortly, it's crazy that people who rob innocence and trust spend less time in Jail than people who sell shit to other people who are asking for it..Let's put it this way - I'd rather have a convicted drug dealer in the neighborhood than a convicted sex offender.

As the father of 3 girls, if I knew a sick fuck was living in my neighborhood, and chatting up the little kids - well I'd probably go to jail too...you know, if the dude was just minding his business that's one thing...maybe it could be possible to try and let the guy live his life. Maybe

Why not definite? Well, it's hard, because you can let these people live their lives, and not interfere, and maybe they're OK for years. Just quiet Charlie minding his business, he won't bother anybody. Then one day, your kid doesn't come home from the bus, or from out playing with their friends, and next thing you know she's found dead, beaten and raped a week after she went missing, and as it turns out, it's that supposedly "rehabilitated" convicted sex offender who lives around the corner whose semen is found in her tiny womb... Then what do you do?? Maybe that seems dramatic, but it HAS HAPPENED and WILL HAPPEN AGAIN! Question is, if you KNOW someone has a history of this type of behavior, do you sit back and do nothing, and wait for it to happen again?

Back to the story, if this mofo is bold enough to be chatting ANY little kids, AND offering them any type of gift (fireworks??????) he's clearly demonstrating that he's not rehabilitated. So what do you do? Let it slide...NO...Call the cops - who will possibly give him a talking to, but in the end, do nothing? Or do you send the message yourself? hmmmmm

I could go on and on - I just cannot imagine what I would do if someone did something terrible to one of my girls.

Some might think my views are whacked...I have a lot of tolerance for a lot of things, but there are certain things which are completely intolerable....murderers, rapists, child molesters - kill them. Period. They are not going to serve any use to society except to terrorize. Who needs it? We haven't had a good plague in a long time, and the world needs some cleaning out. Why not start with the scum of the earth?

I can't believe how much time I spent on this reply - clearly I'm passionate about the subject, because if something heinous were to happen to any of my girls at the hands of one of these fuckers, I'm pretty confident I would go insane with grief and anger, and would gladly do life in prison to get to that bastard before the cops. Jail would not be punishment enough. I'm hoping from my comments that those of you who think the mom was in the wrong might at least be able to see why she did what she did. I'm not sure if you can understand if you don't have kids. I know that sounds so cliche...but trust me, the love you feel for your child far exceeds the love you could possibly feel for anyone else, friends, parents, lovers...and the idea of some piece of shit tearing apart your greatest love in life.......hopefully you get the picture.

Peace!!

My kids were molested. I do not 'see why she did what she did.' Sometimes imagining how you would react to a situation is far different than you actually react to it. In my experience, and I have talked to quite a few other parents of molested children, this kind of anger and outrage is largely reserved for people whose kids have not been molested. Or, I imagine, people who already have a tendency towards anger and/or violence.

I do understand your point about recidivism and jail terms. I think we need to do more to determine which sex offenders are truly dangerous and keep them institutionalized - no, there is no reforming true pedophiles...and currently our justice systems do not recognize a 'pedophile' (as a psychological condition) amongst other offenders.

And the man who molested my children received 20 years (for a first offense), certainly not a light sentence. Murderers have gotten lighter sentences in this state since he was sentenced. But Florida is one of the better states for recognizing the particular threat of recidivism in sex crimes. Of course, it was a lesson learned hard...

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While I was walking my dog, I realized that this story and the subsequent discussion about it reminds me of another story and the discussion I had with some people at another place. It was about this man in Texas who was being sued by a group of illegal immigrants for holding them at gunpoint and threatening to shoot them and sic his dog them. I wandered into the conversation in the midst of a praise-fest about what a hero this was guy was and how outrageous it was that these illegal immigrants were being allowed to sue him. But with a little research it became obvious that this guy was a verifiable nut with a history of erratic behavior and was successfully sued by a family in his town for false imprisonment. I'll bet a dollar on a dime that this woman is a nut with a tendency to react to stress with anger...and under almost any other circumstances she would be reviled for acting out with violence. I really see no sense in glorifying a person like that.