Why aren't pedophiles punished?

This brings up a very good point. If someone tries to get on a plane with a gun (not for criminal reasons but just to exercise his rights to carry and out of fear that it might be "misplaced" with the checked luggage), he won't see the light of day for a very long time because of federal weapons charges. Yet, what harm would it do for him to fly with a gun especially if it is unloaded. However, pedophiles usually are let out in time to see the Sunday game. There's something wrong with this picture.
 
They are punished, if caught. I suppose some particular case caused this rant, but in my county all the pedophiles caught in the time I've lived here have received very long sentences, which they richly deserved. I guess I just don't see any sign we're going easy on them.
 
After they are convicted, give them a large, prominent tattoo in the middle of their foreheads that reads “child molester” in block letters. Then educate the children to avoid anyone with a tattooed forehead. Make them report to their parole officers quarterly or more frequently to verify they have not had the tattoo removed. It’ll make them look distinguished. . . .kinda like Charlie Manson.
 
TBeck, good post with some excellent points. What consenting adults do in their own homes is not anyone elses business. Pedophilia by definition does not involve consenting adults.

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Glad to see so many replies, I've been away for a few days. What got me started on this was an episode of America's Most Wanted a few weeks ago. Most of the profiles were of repeat child molesters and one was accused of raping his 18 month old daughter. I have an 18 month old child and the thought of this made me completely sick. I just don't understand why these people are let out to hurt more kids. Everyone knows that the chance of these people doing it again is so high and they are still letting them out of jail. I guess I just needed to vent a little.

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I'm retired from the Md prison system at the rank of Lt. Here's a few facts...

A typical first offence sentence, 3 years. Consider that one of these sickos might commit dozens of atrocities before being caught.I know of one perv who,despite a record going back into the 40s and parole violations, got paroled again. It took this educated, able, intelligent and well to do monster a mere 6 months to roll up offenses against over 30 kids, some as young as 6.

And it's a power trip, not sexual at all sometimes. It's about control,the sex act is merely completion.

And, 80% of pedophiles have female victims.

And since it's a power trip,it's well nigh impossible for them to stop. And since it's a power trip,castration just changes the instrument, not the crime.

However, removal of the head instead of the genitals results in complete rehabilitation. No further offenses, period.
 
DAngus, when you e-mail a pedophile site to the FBI, send a cc to the Secret Service.

It's my understanding that the Secret Service is the Federal branch in charge of computer crimes.

LawDog
 
This reminds me of a frightening person over on AR15.com He was a farily frequent poster and he got along well. Untill...
He made the statement that there was nothing wrong with Molet=sting children because they normally like it. He said he was Molested when he was young and he liked it because it was a female teacher that did it. He believed that there was nothing at all wrong with it.

Just the hinting that this kind of thing is Ok is sickening to me. The idea that this does not negatively affect a child is crazy. I for one think child molesters and Pedophiles should meet a slow painful death.
 
If you know what you're doing, and can hold down the urge to throw-up/kill the SOB long enough, child molesters are easy to interrogate.

You should hear some of the stuff they come up with to justify their actions, though. I've seen a lot of things in my time, but the only time I have thrown-up and not been ill, was after a successful 30 minute interrogation of a child molester. Holy Ghost. I yacked for so long, I wound up drinking water just to have something to throw-up.

The following probably violates most of the Constituition, but hey, it's me. ;)

One of the lower tricks used by a defense attorney defending a child molester, is to get the molested child up on the stand. Usually, just the threat of having their abused baby up on the witness stand is enough to make the parents beg the DA to offer a plea bargain. :mad:

When I was a newbie, we had a child molester wind up getting caught in our County. The week before the trial, the Sheriff gave me an order to find a motorcycle gang and ticket them for something--preferably multiple tickets. And get a contact address.

Well, I did. Got back to the SO, and the Sheriff called the riders and told them that if they showed up and monitored Court on a certain day, he'd tear up the tickets. They weren't real happy, but they agreed.

Well, that day came, and they showed up. Beards, leather-and-denim, earrings, the whole nine yards. The Sheriff leads them into the Courtroom and very ceremoniously seats them behind where the defense will be sitting.

They were pretty hacked-off about the whole thing--until the Court Clerk read the offense that was being tried. :D They spent the next two hours popping their knuckles and baring their teeth at the defendant. Poor guy was so rattled, he changed his plea to 'Guilty' before the trial really got off the ground. :D

LawDog

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I have an idea.... If partial birth abortion is constitutional.... then is it not the right of the mother to be able to abort that birth at anytime? Say even when the brat is 40? If that is the case then the mothers need to be held responsible for their brats who commits these types of crimes. Maybe if the kid does something wrong like that, then the mother should make the decission to abort at that time.... Well it's just a thought..... after all my Mom always told me that she brought me into this world and she could dam well take me out...... :)



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Richard

The debate is not about guns,
but rather who has the ultimate power to rule,
the People or Government.
RKBA!
 
Sorry I left out shotguns. Child molesters are going to act whether the pusihment is stiff or not. Those that would purpose to kill would have probably done it anyway to keep from being revealed.

We really need to work in our State Legislatures to make this a Capital Offense punishable by death with there is no question about guilt.

Texas would be a great beta site for this type of action. ;)

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Lawdog & Other LEO,

Man, I do not envy you all having to listen to the sh*t that comes out of these scum's mouths during interrogation, but I'm glad you all get them off the street. If you wouldn't get in trouble I'd have to suggest using your night stick liberally.

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This new push for "alternative lifestyle" status for these low lifes is a sad commentary on the state of the world today. BTW I saw the lady's site that set up NAMBLA, she got em good, and their main distribution company. There is alledgedly a "big" name in the computer industry that has been financing them. However it could have been the Disney ( surprising huh ? ) Infoseek guy they busted the other day, I don't know how old the site was.

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The realistic option is a life sentence without chance of parole and no judicial discretion to lower the sentence.

I cannot fathom how defense lawyers, knowing their clients are guilty, can try to get them lower sentences or off.

I understand the nature of the adversarial system and the idea that you don't do the DA's work for him or her - but how can you live with yourself.
 
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Some of them do it because they are dishonest, bad people, others do it because they believe it will be a bad thing if this country ever gets to the point where there are no fair trials, and giving even these sleazeballs unfair trials would be presedence for such wrongs.

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