Watch Your Children Folks

subgenius · 07-10-2007, 12:27 PM

Child molesters that get caught for one or two crimes tend to be just the tip of the iceberg. I read in some report that for every one victim that the authorities know about there are one-hundred that they don't know about. All with the same child molester.

Also, rapists and child molesters have an extremely HIGH rate of repeating crimes. And, that is even AFTER serving time. They have cases where a guy was just released from a long jail sentence for rape or child molestation and they go out the same day of release and attack another woman or child.

I know that telling the other inmates will make the child molester suffer more in jail. We all want them to suffer. But, statistics have shown that all that does is make the rapist or molester a WORSE criminal. They come out far more dangerous than they went in.

American jails and prisons do not rehabilitate. They warehouse. I know we want them punished. But, I think it makes bad criminals even worse. In some cases it actually allows an older criminal to teach a younger one how to better get away with a crime (any crime). Non-violent criminals will also often come out of prison as violent criminals.

Something needs to be done...

subgenius · 07-10-2007, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Jras0001

You can thank the "war on drugs" for the types of sentencing you we now see for drug law violations. Ive seen guys go to prison for possessing an ouce of weed and stay longer than people who have committed vehicular manslaughter. (killed someone while driving under the influence).

Yeah, that is alarming. Again, some changes need to be implemented.

MTKrav911 · 07-10-2007, 01:32 PM

Subgenius it all has to do with Legislators and pressure. You have to pressure law makers in to making stiffer penalties. FOr example, the Amber Alert system was sparked years ago (the system that is federally in place to immediately make public through media etc when a child is kidnapped), because of family pressures.

Sometimes more pressure is put on legislators on drugs (usually in drug infested areas) so penalties go up. Plus don't count out federal pressure from whichever administration is in office and their agendas.

What I pray and hope for is that sometime in the near future we have an administration that prioritizes increasing the penalties for crimes against children. All crimes, not just molestation. There are good laws in the books, but they're too few and far between.

We still have a long way to go. ANd that's unfortunate.

FYI this guy we snagged yesterday is screwed. We threw 2 felonies and a misdemeanor at him, plus he can get extradited when he's done with our time to New Mexico for apparently a violent armed robbery he committed there which prompted the no bail warrant.

As we like to say in our office.

He's federally ****ed!