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Originally Posted by CuriousToyBoy
Sounds awfully like you are defending child rapists my friend.
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Am I defending child rapists by saying child rapists and child pornographers should spend the rest of their lives in prison? Or am I defending them by pointing out that not everyone who at some time comes across a naked girl under the age of 18 is a pedophile, child rapist or child pornographer?
Your idea to institute mandatory minimum sentences is a bad idea not because those who rape children on a daily basis should not be locked up in a doorless cell, but because mandatory minimum sentences would also hit the ones who, for example, come across a naked 17 year old on a message board.
Judges and juries recognize the difference between a 50 year old raping a 6 year old and an 18 year old dating a 16 year old. Likewise, they recognize the difference between someone who has thousands of hardcore child pornography pictures on his hard drive, and someone who has thousands of amateur nudes on his hard drive, one of which happens to be of a 17 year old, while the rest all feature adults.
Mandatory minimum sentences make it impossible for sentencing to reflect these obvious differences.
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Originally Posted by CuriousToyBoy
I live in Australia, and the news stories here outside of that one article have been rather specific as to what these scum were doing.
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No, they are specific as to what *some* of them have *allegedly* been doing. False arrests can and do happen, and while some of the people arrested undoubtedly are scum of the worst sort, it is quite possible that others will turn out not to be pedophiles at all.
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Originally Posted by CuriousToyBoy
People also do not top themselves either of they have not been doing anything wrong.
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Most would not, but some might. Mainly because the worse the crime is, the more likely media and the public are to come to a conviction of their own, regardless of evidence.
It's a well-known fact that false accusations have ruined many a life.
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Originally Posted by CuriousToyBoy
I will not apologize ever for being forthright on these issues.
I have 3 children.
And just as a standard you can be absolutely fucking certain that I would not give a flying fuck if you were fiddling them or if you just had "artistic" pictures of them, you would be a fucking dead man and I would happily do the time.
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Many of the people involved in
this would undoubtedly have died by your hand long before it ever became clear that absolutely nothing actually happened.