Do you think child molesters should have the 2nd chance to commit a crime due to faults within CA justice?
929039
i was molested as a child and i say a child molester should have life probation, goverment keeping tabs on them wherever they go, and be placed in a mental instatiute(or however you spell it.) for rehabilatation, molesting kids is NOT normal, they are messed up. they should have mandatory instatiutionalistion for at least two years before they could go back into society on probation.
302819
Why indeed?? Actually, the recidivism rate of sex offenders is the second LOWEST in the Nation. Murderers have the lowest recidivism rate. I am not certain what that is attributed to, but there are murderers that are released from prisons. The highest recidivism rates in the Nation are drug abusers and drunk drivers. Your child has a higher chance of being killed, maimed or harmed by a drug dealer, drug abuser, drunk driver, gangs, playground accident, neglect and drowning than they do of being harmed by a rehabilitated former sex offender. \n\nSex offenders can be rehabilitated. Dr Fred Berlin of Johns Hopkins University, is a psychiatrist in this field. He states the recidivism rate is 1/10 of 1% for sex offenders that have completed therapy. \n\nBy the way, I was molested twice as a child. At 6 and at 11. Both times were by persons known to my family. I am 49 now. I am NOT a victim, I am a survivor. Not all child molestations cause people to be victims. Perhaps parents or others put that idea into a childs head, that they are victims forever. I do know that you have to forgive in order to be a survivor and I have done that. I also know that I am thankful things weren't the way they are now. I would be hurt if those two people had to go through what many sex offenders go through today.\n\nI notice some of you are aware of the 19/16 year old problems. We call those Romeo/Juliets. Are you also aware that in some states if two teens are caught having sex and they are both under the age of consent, they will BOTH be convicted of sexual assault against each other? Which makes them both the offender and the victim. They are both also put on the internet registries in some states all juveniles are put on it, in some states they are put on when they turn 18. \n\nAll of you need to learn the facts. This issue is NOT so cut and dried. I have been on Abrams Report, Greta Van Sustern and several local TV stations as well as in newspapers. If any of you heard of the Rally in Palm Bay, FL last year for families of sex offenders, I was the organizer. I know this issue from all angles. I wish everyone would learn and not take the medias and the politicians word for it. The politicians are only trying to get your vote. They know the truth. They just won't tell it.\n\nGod forgives all. He forgives murderers and he forgives sex offenders. Perhaps America could learn from God?
153020
It depends on when the molestation occurred because the laws and case laws have changed over time.  \n\nIf it occurred prior to around 1987 - not much can be done.  This is why some priests' convictions were overturned.  The court recently ruled that any changes to the Statue of Limitations (S.O.L.)for a crime can only be used for future crimes committed after the laws were changed and then the new S.O.L. applies.\n\nIf it occurred between 1987 and 1992 AND the victim was a child at the time of the molest (12 and younger) AND the abuse was significant (more than one time)AND no report to Law Enforcement was made - the S.O.L. is one year from the time it is now reported to the police.  (Look up 803(g)in the penal code)  \n\nIf the molest took place sfter 1992 on a child 12 and younger - there is none.
267103
Yep, I think there should be a law that if you are guilty of aggravated assault on a child under 10 you should get the death penalty.  It seems like other crimes ie murder, drug etc under specific circumstantces I could be capable of these things, and I think I am a reasonable human being but child molestation? I don't have in me to do that. People that do are special type a of deviant. Some will say that they can't help it or that its similar to homosexuality, meaning that it was considered against nature until recently and that people can not help who they are 'attracted' to. But this is bulls hit; children will never have the mental matureness to consent to sex. Adults do. They have free will and should make appropriate decisions.  Castration is an option but there are plenty of ways to violate a child without a penis. Life terms, what's the point, just wasting money, and rehibilatation does not seem to work. I wish everyone would stop being so PC and bending over backwards protecting the civil rights of criminals. As a society we need to protect our weakest members. A day doesn't pass by that I don't read about a child molestation somewhere in America, the more we hear about it the more normal it seems and this is a dangerous place to be as a 'civilized' nation.
919087
The only problem I'd have with state executions of pedophiles is making certain that errors weren't made.  Usually, the people best positioned to determine guilt or innocence are those who are nearest to the crime when it happens, who saw it, or saw the immediate evidence of it.\n\nI'd be in favor of the summary execution of pedophiles by eyewitnesses to pedophilia crimes.  I'm less in favor of executions by state judicial processes because lawyers and liars and political favoritism are certain to let half the guilty go free and are also certain to unjustly execute some number of innocent people.\n\nAny politicized government process, judicial or otherwise, always becomes corrupt sooner or later, and once corrupted the "cure" becomes worse than the "disease."
188280
I'm not going to get ten points for this answer, but I agree with you 100%. The person who is murdered doesn't have to live the rest of their lives with the memory of being raped, or molested like a child would. Granted the family of the person murdered would suffer greatly, but then so would the family of a little girl who was molested. Some murders happen in a fit of rage, but molestors know fully what they are going to do in advance. Its a tough call, but I have to child molestors are the bottom of the barrel.
133864
YES.  They absolutely should.  This 'minor' shit is completely irrelavant.  They were fully aware of what they were doing at the time they were doing it.  They should be held 100% accountable.  Their parents should NOT be punished, unless they were accomplices.  Our judicial system is absolutely ridiculous.  It's sad.  Seems they defent the criminals and not the victims most of the time.
247624
i don't think they should be sent to jail. i think they should be executed for their crimes. children are the most innocent people on this planet, and to take that and so much more from this is abhorable. murder is bad, but at least their pain ends. rapists and child molestors are not people, but monsters that prey upon the weak and innocent. but in the current state of things, my answer would have to be no, they do not need to be let out of prison. ever.
1031157
Yes absolutely. Kids are too precious to be put at any kind of risk, the information needs to come straight from the police in a monthly bulletin available only from police stations so innocent men or women didnt get accused. After that the real paedophiles are fair game, they deserve all and more of whats coming to them.
212392
no matter what the charges are, every kid deserves a second chance. to add more, every human being should....duhh
958116
Yes definetly.\n\nI pose to you a question, you come home your mum and dad and all your siblings are dead, you see a man in the hall holding a gun up at you with their blood on his hands you have a gun do you draw it and pull the trigger?\n\nAlso another question\nA child sex offender is realeased from jail and re offends, then goes to jail again released with the same result, do you use capital punishment to protect all his future victims?\n\nI am pro capital punishment in out and out clear cut guilty cases (violent/ sex crimes) , as far as i am concerned the fmaily of the victim should have the choice if they want the offender to die, because the offenders death will only bring closure to those he/ she has effected.
97155
I think it should be used more often and more effectively.  Stop the twenty year appeal process and just do it.  I do not feel that a person that murders or rapes or molests children should be given a lifetime of free living.
1177259
We can fund CPS a little better and give them more reign to do their jobs.  We can hold people accountable for their actions when it comes to their kids.  When someone is abusing a child either physically or mentally, that person needs to do about 10 years prison time or more.  We can quit sitting back and letting it happen.  Children deserve so much better in this country than what they are given.  Our focus as a people ought to be on how we can better children's lives and not our own.
975717
DEFINITELY should tighten up the laws concerning child molesters -- these are monsters in every sense of the word -- and just letting them out with little restrictions on their behaviors is a recipe for DISASTER -- and the Disaster is the continuance of the Molesting Behaviors in the future.\n\nNot only should California Tighten up these laws, but I have another Suggestion for California:\n\nHOW ABOUT if CALIFORNIA tightens up it's Child Support Enforcement Laws too!  My Ex-Spouse ABUSED my children, and was not just able to continue contact with the children (which disgusts me to begin with -- stupid California "justice") -- but he then was also able to continue to slide off the face of Child Support Enforcement, and now ... 19 years later, I AM STILL looking for Child Support Enforcement!
343144
It is absolutely 110% wrong! These vigilante murders should cause the registries to go away! At the very least, make them available only to law enforcement, which was the original intent along with the fact that originally they were only for Violent Sexual Predators. In the case of Mr. William Elliot, he was convicted of having consensual sex with an underage girl. I wonder, how does his death now make this past girlfriend of his feel? Do you think she feels like she is to blame for his death?\n\nI was molested twice as a child. I am not a victim, I am a survivor. I do not feel that my abusers deserve death at all. I can thank God and my parents for my views of morality. I can thank them also for my love of fellow man and the knowledge that I have about rehabilitated former sex offenders. I do my homework. I know that they can be rehabilitated. I know that they can lead normal productive lives. I know that they have less chance of recidivism than all other crimes with the exception of murderers. I know that 90 to 95% of sexual abuse is by someone known to the child. I know that many of the horrendous crimes against children are committed by drug offenders. Cocaine is the most often used drug by these people. I know that drug abusers, drug dealers, drunk drivers, gangs and parents have a higher rate of murdering children within a year than any registered sex offender. Learn the facts. Get active and make this Country abide by the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution.
790491
i think so. if the minor understood what they were doing and knew what the outcome would be then yes they should be tried as adults.  there areway to many young people out killing each other and know they can get away with it, because they will go to juvie and be out when they are 18.  i say lock them up with the adults so they can truly learn a lesson.
902772
i agree totally, i think ALL child molesters should get death penalty that is chosen by the parents and if the parents want to be the one to initiate death, allow them to!!