I’ve done a search on previous threads and know this is a pretty incendiary topic (hence the post in GD). I’m a father of two 4 year old boys and I’d be incensed to the point of violence if they’d been molested.
However.
Pedophilia (and this is coming from a point of almost total ignorance in the subject) appears to be the one offence where you might get released from prison, but your ‘debt to society’ will never be paid.
Certain white and blue collar crimes have finite sentences. In extenuating circumstances, I suspect even Murder can be ‘paid off’ and the offender allowed to move on.
But Pedophiles will always always always be persecuted, without remorse, with great venom, and by folks that aren’t qualified to evaluate their status.
Another thread mentioned a 43% recidivism rate. That speaks to me that the disnostic for release aren’t thorough enough…but that leaves more than half that DON’T repeat, and they MUST register where they live, and the WILL be persecuted as a result.
I dunno about your folks, but the decisions and motivations I had at 12 (a year at random), 18, 28, and now, have all been drastically different.
It’s a terrible crime, precisely because of the affect on the victims, but there’s the possibility of therapy helping the victims and helping them move on…not so much for the messed up dude/dudette that breaks the law. How many of THOSE folks break the law because they didn’t get treatment for sexual abuse in THEIR past?