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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
as good as that may sound that hardly does any good. Might as well make them actually repay their debt to society and let them rot is jail. They should force child molesters into slave labour and use the money to counsel sexual abuse victims and such
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Nice one Smokey - you made the only post which is more than just kill child abuse offenders than reacting out of emotion.
Sure, the nature of the offense is repugnant, tho there needs to be an understanding of how that shit happens in the first place. Child offenders are our own family members, your lawyer, your schoolteacher - this is an offense which knows no class boundaries. It is also an issue where (more often than not) the offender was also a victim at some stage in earlier life - a member of his family or a stranger abused him/her (women can also be offenders and then abuse their own children, tho less common) - this type of offense is a vicious circle.
It is not unlike most other forms of abuse eg wife beating - people "learn" how to beat and dominate others - more often than not they have a history of learning about abuse as victims.
It's not entirely a total co-incidence that a high percentage of individuals jailed for violent offenses were abused as kids - tho they may not have specifically committed offenses against children, - they just selected another group to abuse.
There is an increasing danger of problems resulting from child abuse - there is no doubts this offense is rising substantially and increasing thru generations. The victims then perpetrate similiar offenses against other children and the vicious circle gradually widens.
The damage this causes in any society is enormous - some victims never commit offenses but can have baggage they carry with them the rest of their lives - and this can affect their whole outlook on life and cause other mental issues.
There are exceptions, some folks are just what can be described as evil and where there is no hope. With the majority - they are the result of the society they were raised in - Dad abuses his daughter etc and the cycle continues. Blaming is the easy part - addressing the problem seriously and breaking the cycle of abuse is much harder. Obviously offenders can't walk the streets, - but it's more than that - the victims (and the offender) also need worked on/monitored/supported to get some normal balance and dump the abuse element, else the scenario repeats itself - time and again.