Michelle Mandel has a disturbing story in today's Toronto Sun. A convicted child molester is going to be let out prison and heading home to Oshawa next week. He was convited of 10 counts of molesting 2 boys over a 10 year period.
The sentence? 6 years. He's out after serving 2/3rds of his time.
I understand the arguement for rehabilitation. I'm uneasy with it but I understand it. Turns out this pedophile had been convicted of similar charges in the early 1990's. So much for the rehab arguement. Durham police say they're going to keep an eye on this guy. Seems they're not convinced he wont reoffend. The police get it. The law makers don't.
These are our childern. These are our most important assets. 2/3rds of a 6 year sentence for destroying their innocence and forcing them to take their nightmares into adulthood. Childern who didn't know what was happening to them and when they did they were too ashamed to come forward until they couldn't live with the demons any longer. This man stole from them. Not a bicycle or a basketball. He stole their childhoods. You can never replace that. Ever.
As parents we do all we can to protect our childern. Law makers don't. If they did this man wouldn't be on the street. You molest a child you have to put away forever. Forever. We can't afford to have people like this on our streets. 2/3rds of a 6 year sentence, 6 years of a 6 years sentence, 10 years, 15 years, not enough. Forever!
Back in the 1800's Charles Dickens wrote in Oliver Twist.."the law is an ass". 2/3rd's of a 6 years sentence for molesting 2 young boys? Dickens is still right. The law is an ass.
This blog thing is addictive. Sorry but I must make yet another comment...I just feel compelled. Your posting is very disturbing indeed and makes no sense. I remember years ago having a conversation with a news guy about this bank robber who got a life sentence. I asked him why bank robbers always got such tough sentences (not that I'm condoning bank robbing) and some rapists and murderers sometimes got off with such light sentences and he said the system had the mindset of "you can rape our children, beat our women, but don't take our money". Kinda summed it up for me...sadly. I agree with you Rick...touch a child....go to jail FOREVER! Case closed.
Debs, you can comment any time you like. It speaks volumes about a society when it money has more value than the safety of people. Childern and adults.
Rehabilitated child molestors and rapists is a figment of the imagination of all the psycho babble set and social engineers.
Sorry it's a 1 strike rule with me on this, no mulligens, do overs, straight to incarceration for life. The same sentence the poor victim has to live with for the rest of their life. I have a family member who was molested by a family friend, and being from a small town everyone knowing and the chances of bumping into this individual, she eventually made several attempts at taking her life. Very tragic.
Rick C: That's the thing that we don't talk about often enough. I knew a great looking guy and a great looking girl who where dating. Both were working in a bar. What most of the customers didn't know was that both of them were strippers. I talked to the guy one night and he told me the story. Both of them had been molested when they where kids. Neither one of them had any faith in themsleves. They thought they were the ultimate losers. They deserved each other. It was so sad because both of them were decent people. Always nice to me. I can't fathom the demons they were living with.