magic-cat
Mother to Many
While I usually smile when someone talks about LP, I think he is silly and a media hog, as I have said in post on another thread- this news item really upsets me. My husband spent a good many years investigating child molesters and putting a whole lot of them behind bars and I personally don't believe a pedophile is EVER rehabilitated to the point where they would not be a danger to the public. So I don't think I am going to smile and call LP silly anymore, I am going to shake my head sadly that a man, who is supposedly intelligent, could EVER offer assistance to a someone who harmed a child.
The laws of our land say that once a man has paid his debt to society to which he was sentenced then he is free to go. Sex-offenders are no exception, although, albeit, they should be, they are not. They do carry an additional "condition" that states that they must register as a sex offender and report job changes and residence changes immediately. Our legal system convicted this man, sentenced him and then "treated" him. As further insurance he will be wearing a satellite ankle monitor and will be living in a building with a guard where there are no children. I know that crimes against children are unjust and without understanding, but to say that this man should not have the protections afforded him by the legal system of our country implies that mob rule should be the rule of the day-where the vigilantes, and not the justice system make the decisions about what will happen to criminals. If THAT becomes the reality then our entire society will melt down into anarchy and there will be no protections for ANY of us, much less these dregs of society molesters. He was NOT sentenced to death, and he was NOT sentenced to life, so what DO you suppose we do with him?