Woman, 55, Admits To Having Sex With Boy

This woman need to face the music, throw the book at her. However some of you are taking some things too far. Dont get me wrong we do need to protect the kids, but consider a few things, when i was a child my parents actually watched me, today most just open the door and let them run. I have a friend who has a daughter and said he doesn’t want a petifile living in the neighborhood, while i understand the sentiment this is the US if they have paid there time they deserve a chance to be productive members of society. dont get me wrong, hang repeat offenders. But, I have another friend, well someone i know, who has to file with the local police department everywhere he lives, he has had his dog killed mutilated and left on his doorstep, he has had some pretty nasty stuff painted on his houses and his life has been threatened many times, you know what he did to deserve this for the last 19 years? at 21 he had sex with his 17 year old girlfriend, a girl he had been seeing for three years, his birthday and hers were a week apart, her father never liked him and busted him as soon as he could. this mans life was destroyed over a weeks difference in birthdays. He wound up marrying that girl and having two beautiful children with her, children who keep getting questioned because of that.Are we going to castrate him? We have to start having the punishment fit the crime, I mean really, I’m sure a 15 or 16 year old fully understands what they are doing. I know I did at that age, and I’m sure all of you did too. Now I am not saying we shouldn’t go after the sickos that are going after any kids younger then that, so please dont think I am. But i do really believe a much clearer line must be drawn.

Lets see what the outcome will be? Probably, probation. But, if it was a 55 yr. old male and a teenage girl: he would be tarred and feathered and life in prison. Lets see if JUSTICE is served here.

It occurs to me that I ought to back up and clarify something: Regarding the victims, I feel an incredible amount of sympathy towards them. To my knowledge I do not personally know any victims of these kinds of crimes, but I would be more than willing to offer any sort of comfort or help towards them they asked if they came to me for it. I feel for them and their families. I believe they have have done nothing to “deserve it” and hope that they are able to find a way to heal and to find emotional resolution over this. I think that the offenders should be financially responsible for every last bit of medical and theraputic care the victims acquire regarding the crime for as long as they live. That being said, I honestly believe that the victims are best vindicated when actual justice takes place.
The offenders who justify or simply refuse to admit to their crimes perhaps have no hope. Maybe there is no use in trying to reach them and they deserve to be locked away for a lifetime in order to protect others. But yet again Laura, I go back to the study that you brought up: Where medicinal castration was administered in a clinical trial. Now, as you pointed out, it was a choice participation trial. SO, at least some are willing to submit to proven reform over imprisonment. So what if the majority don’t? If any DO, then that’s a score for this idea of getting them back to being beneficial parts of society instead of gov’t funded shut-ins.
It is essential that we not bog ourselves down in theoretical treatment to the point that we forget to punish or we forget to mourn and assist the victims in any way possible. But, when things are clearly getting worse not better, it is time to reavaluate how we handle these offenders, and finding the most effective preventative measures we can is essential. And that’s why I am bent on playing devil’s advocate.

PS:

really??

I understand the thought of not losing your hope and optimism.  I am only commenting on what I have seen and experienced professional AND personally.

We have an astronomical rate of recidivism for these offenders and we write that off to “that’s just who (what)they are.“ Laura, you yourself pointed out that chemical castration proved affective. I also pointed to the study where 94% of the criminals in that particular program hadn’t regressed after ten years. There is hope for us to impliment these practices broad range and actually fix the problem and make them benefical members of our soceity as opposed to just locking them away on our tax dollar. And if we ask further questions, if we study this further there is a possibility we could find preventative measures that would allow us to combat these types of crimes prior to them being committed, which is hands down the best way to protect the innocent in our society.