I’m not a big fan of child sex offenders. But I did used to think that the point of serving a jail sentence was that you got a second chance after serving your term. Increasingly, that’s just not true.
I’m not a psychologist, psychiatrist or child molester. I hear a lot of those saying that the rate of recidivism is very high when it comes to this particular crime. If that is true, if this is a disease, why don’t we treat it like one?
American justice can be particularly cruel sometimes. I would imagine that child molestors, like alcoholics, know that something is wrong with them, and have to spend each day either giving in to the compulsion or fighting it.
Can’t we find a better way to deal with them than letting them back into the big pond with a sign that says “kick me” on their backs?
If there is no chance for redemption, ever, then what it the point of life? I really don’t want to live in a society where we have subclasses of citizens who have less rights than the rest of us. These people need to be segegrated or fixed in some way, not made into Internet pariahs by having their names and addresses available to any semi-retarded crusader of justice who has an Internet connection.