I don't accept defense of or excuses for laws which allow previously convicted child predators to be granted the freedom of repeating their offense.
Hi.... I'm back.....
Have you ever known a convicted child sexual offender?
Yep.... I have.... he lived opposite our place back in the 80's, and delivered free newspapers in the area each week. He was in his 50's at that time. I thought he was an OK bloke. Honest.
Our kids 8 & 10 years old, used to walk along the sea-wall to go to skating on the Pier once a week with other kids from our area, and one day this man approached me and said that he took all the kids to skating, cubs, girl-guides and everything else and I should let him take ours to skating. All the households called him uncle-***** because of his interest in and for them.
I said, 'Thanks, No thanks.' He persisted. I said ,'No mate. That's a No.' I thought he was OK, but I just wanted our kids to be free to come and go as they pleased.
Out of the blue, several months later, he got arrested. He had been found by Police in local woods with two little girls in his car and couldn't explain himself. Under questioning he cracked and gave it all up. He did not rape the girls..... they were virgins, but the Judge was furious that those girls needed to experience that inspection.
The Judge would have jailed him but his old mother was an invalid and he cared for her, son he was put on probation for a long time and had to attend counselling and psychiatric meetings.
The long-winded point is that he never came out of his home again. Either for fear, for shame or both he was never seen outside again. He died a few years ago and his estranged son inherited his home.... a very nice young man, by the way.
Nobody ever tried to hurt him or interfer with his home....... everybody just shunned him.
Should we kill these convicts? I don'#t want to argue with Pro-execution folks, because these questions are tough imo, but over here we just don't. There is only one country in the EU that executes murderers, for example.