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Originally Posted by Daradon
I agree with all of those points and that order. Though I don't believe they always have to be assessed individually, often they go hand in hand. Obviously 1 and 3 do very much so.
As I was saying earlier, just curious about what everyone thought about proper sentences since everyone seemed to think 9 years was laughable.
I guess a larger issue was that people consider our system to be such a joke. Sure it's not perfect, but I don't think it's a joke either. I wanted to hear more interesting ideas or opinions than just, 'lock em up forever'. I mean stuff like this only gets posted cause of the 'rubberneck factor', and that's a shame. So people can all wring their hands and say 'oh that's terrible', and 'criminals get off way too easy'. That's not hard to do, and more disturbingly it's voyeuristic and only adds to the problem.
Surely there can be a larger purpose to these types of threads then just the typical knee-jerk reactions. That's all I was trying to bring.
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I've always thought that the criminal justice system has to be re-aligned when it comes to child sex crimes, I honestly think that child rapists and molesters should automatically have the dangerous offender label attached to their file one they're convicted with no chance for interpretation by the judges.
In other words, there should be no limit to the sentence of these monsters and they only get out once its proven that they won't re-offend and when they're released they're restricted from attending any area frequented by kids and they wear an ankle bracelet for the rest of their lives.
I've never seen a single study that's shown that pedophiles can be cured. Even this scumbag was considered to be a model prisoner, and went through the full treatment and he still acted on his compulsion.
So to answer your question, I believe it has to be an open ended sentence, no limit until certain conditions are met.