tnrtinr
Well-Known Member
That is easier said than done. I am assuming that you have fairly straight / normal sexual tendencies (what is socially acceptable). If that is true, you don't have much internal strife. You are able to act freely and openly sexually. Now imagine instead of finding your wife / husband sexy you find them revolting and something more perverse sexy. Now imagine for a second that is a 12 year old (I know I know that is disgusting for you). You realize that getting caught will end your career, marriage, family, branded a sex offender for life and the list goes on (this isn't a decision you take lightly). So what do you do? You go on-line and under the cloak of anonymity you find a consenting minor (yes I realize that a minor can't consent). This willing participant is not likely to tell on you and you both get what you want. This is the most benign of sexual crimes when compared to child pornography, child prostitution, forced violent rape and torture.No, they can't change what they find attractive, but they can choose not to act on it. CHOICE, CHOICE, responsibility IS a factor in this. They can choose not to have sex with what they are attracted to, because screwing children is wrong.
No matter how little choice they have in being a pedophile, there is still a choice in what they do.
"what is popular is not always right"Look, just because it's popular opinion that pedophiles should be punished for their actions, it doesn't make it a mob mentality to agree. Mob mentality is when you agree because everyone else is agreeing. Not when you agree because it's true.
Forrest Gump voice "And that's all I have to say about that"
That is a huge assumption. You are saying that every minor that has sex with an adult is scarred for life. It is simply not accurate. There are many that are completely content with their decision. They are not being forcibly raped. They have given their consent to a random person - this is not a teacher, family member, friend that has exerted pressure on them, this is a person that they could shut out of their life by closing the chat dialog down. FYI If they are caught they serve no where near 25 years.Now, I'll admit, the whole "torture them" seems brutal and inhumane, but you have to take into account the amount of damage this sort of... behavior, does to kids.
It's more than stealing, cheating, or lying, it's not someone's bank account. It's someone's life being severely effected, early on, by a traumatic event, inflicted for someone else's pleasure. They have to endure a complete loss of control over what happens to them, to a person that seeks to do them harm. While the criminal, if they are caught, serves 25 years. The child has to live the rest of their life coping with what happened to them. .
Most defendants avoid prison entirely, although statutory rape is punishable by up to 5 years. Only 20.2 percent of persons who were originally charged only with statutory rape and then convicted were incarcerated. In cases where statutory rape was one of a number of charges, only 37 percent were incarcerated on statutory rape charges.
Older defendants still receive relatively lenient sentences. Many older defendants avoid incarceration entirely. Those sentenced for statutory rape alone receive about half the maximum sentence on average (29.5 months as opposed to 5 years). Older defendants have a higher incarceration rate and receive longer sentences compared to younger defendants, however.
That means that you will serve on average more time for possession of marijuana if convicted that a guy that has sex with a minor.
For possession, the incarceration average was 31 months (median = 16 months) and the probation average was 42 months (median = 36 months).
The death sentence? Really? This isn't kidnapping and forcible rape with a deadly weapon. Again they are not raping anyone, they are having consensual sex which happens to fit the crime that is named "statutory rape." If the semantics were different and the crime was called "statutory consensual sex" public opinion would be considerably different.How do you punish that? How do you give them an equal measure of displeasure within humane terms?
Life sentence is the only answer I can reply, or Death, no specifics, no fancy torture, the same death any prisoner would get, minus the part where they can choose their last meal. Because dammit, the don't deserve a freaking lobster.
I think it'd be a nice touch if the victim can have an option of watching. Death sentences tend to take a while, if the criminal tries to fight it. While the kid gets older he or she might find comfort in solid proof that the person who hurt them is dead, and can never hurt them again.