Strictly speaking, QED, I believe it was lewd or lascivious acts with child under 14 years. But whose counting?
El Cid, your 3rd paragraph is particularly bizarre in an all round bizarre OP. I don’t know about the legalities of making one state the nation’s gas chamber for pedos. I see from the linked article that some members of the state legislature are “worried whether the proposal could endanger the state’s death penalty laws and be struck down as unconstitutional.”
“Bizarre.” Well, at least I know you’re not going to sugar-coat it. What, in particular, is so bizarre about extraditing sexual predators into a system that is adequately prepared to handle them?
I’m not saying that. If you make a perv understand the penalty for recidivism is death, he might take his affliction more seriously. I am proposing that a one-time offender gets to decide whether he lives or dies. How does Miguel keep on living? He stays away from little kids.
Apparently it wasn’t enough of a concern to keep the Senate from approving it. I’m a little behind on my SC news.
It wasn’t enough of a concern to risk looking “soft on crime” or that you don’t “think of the children”. A politician’s gotta eat.
Anyway, it’s bizarre to think that SC should/would take on the burden of other state’s pedophiles. Bizarre to use extradition as a means of punishment shopping. Lastly, bizarre to go through all that rigamorole to just give some sicko a death threat.
Hardly. I’m simply proposing a recidivism case study. Jesus, when did you become such a tight-ass?
Speaking of bizarre, how did you divine that? Tea leaves or entrails? Seriously.
Or maybe you’re projecting: do you feel threatened?
Fine. Why not just see if it works on an actual SC pedo rather than a case study of your favourite hypothetical being forced to move there.
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Perhaps we should poll the South Carolinians on their feelings about moving all the sex offenders there.
The problem is that SC pedos will more than likely re-enter a familiar community, for example via Group Homes or even their parents’ houses. I don’t want these people to be sheltered or enabled. My thought was “fish out of water” will draw more suspicion (and possible exposure of their RSO status), thereby increasing the community pressure. Kind of a strictly bifurcated approach, but I want these people to get help or be gone.
So for all intensive purposes [sic] you think this is about a vendetta? Well you’d be wrong.
Hey, I’m not going to lie, I’ve got a personal stake in this kind of stuff. Then again, I can’t really think of anybody who hasn’t.
With the added twist that South Carolina is considering making three-time convicted child rapists eligible for the death penalty. So by moving them to South Carolina, if they get convicted three times they can be killed. Sort of a roundabout way of wishing death on pedophiles, after they are convicted of raping three children.
The issue about sex offenders, well make that pedophiles is that it seems like conventional wisdom is that sexual orientation is not a choice. If we accept that it’s really not a choice then it is not fair to punish one for it.
As for what do we do with this people, I have no idea.
Xcept that the law, as far as I am aware, does not punish for any paraphilic ideation but for engaging in the acts forbidden by law. A person may be intensely turned on by children (or by Shetland ponies for that matter) but as long as he does nothing to act upon that urge (molest a child, trade CP), there’s no crime. The presumption behind the law is that though one cannot switch on or off what arouses him sexually, one CAN realize that in his case it is something abnormal and potentially very harmful, and make the conscious moral choice to not act it out.
Ya know, I always wanted a pony…