Posted on 06/20/2007 10:59:24 AM PDT by pabianice
Thanks for posting that! I don’t know how to post pics and have been too lazy to learn.
Fascinating article. The guy provides a lot of insight, and shows remorse, but is unable to trust himself. HE knows waht a danger he is to kids. That’s more honesty than I would have expected.
Sadly, there’s just not much to do with the guy. Remorse not withstanding, he’s a danger and recognizes it himself. He should be locked up otherwise, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him kill himself next time he tries. He knows he has no control over this.
“Observant visitors, however, might note the absence of any computers - a clue to the fact that this is no ordinary marriage.”
Ah, yup, that’s always a dead giveaway. If you don’t compute, something is wrong with your marriage.
“They never change, never.’
And yet homosexuals can get better... /s
>>Observant visitors, however, might note the absence of any computers - a clue to the fact that this is no ordinary marriage.<<
Oh no - my Grandparents don’t have an ordinary marriage - they have no computers... I hope they are not pedophiles. /sarcasm
He could get castrated. If he is fearful of what he might do in the future, isn’t this his only real option?
My biggest question is:
How in the He!! did 700 people find this “ring” before one person with any dignity did?
If he found it from a newsgroup, can’t we monitor those?
I have a friend who is a network specialist. He is hired by major corps to find loopholes in their security. He won’t tell me why, but he has had to call the FBI on numerous occasions because of what he found on employees computers.
Several years ago I read a story about a pedophile who would not own a television or have newspapers or magazines in his home because just looking at children in underwear or diapers would just set him off. He had to avoid eveything to keep children out of his mind. He was really struggling with what he knew was terrible. Maybe they should just be castrated.
This fellow is a computer geek himself. He knew how to cover his tracks, and did it regularly. He only got caught because he spooled a porno article to the wrong printer in his office.
No he didn't. Maybe you should actually read the article. He's being interviewed now because he was willing to talk about his own problem at a time when there's just been a mass arrest of OTHER offenders, and the media is looking for insightful stories. His story and attitude are unusual in a lot of ways and I think he's probably one of the very rare ones who will stay clean (not be cured, but continue to restrain himself).
He had also recommended to his employer that they make changes in their computer systems that would have prevented him from feeding his addiction, but they deemed it unnecessary. This guy really does seem to have been trying to control himself and get help for a long time, and kept hitting brick walls. Including the GP doctor who told him (before he was caught and convicted) that the only treatment programs in the area were for convicted offenders. Given the scale and gravity of this problem in modern society, it’s just absurd that governments require people to offend and be convicted before getting the specialized psychiatric treatment that is their only hope of leading a civilized, non-criminal life.
He certainly seems to have, given the article spent most of his life dealing and trying to fight the urges.
Including 3 suicide attempts.
What is interesting is his admitted spiral, from adult porn, to perversion, to children, and then to as perverted children porn he could find... and admitting that he kept needing more to get the release he needed...
Both he and his wife were both abused as children.
I don’t excuse this guy, but it does seem he recognized and has tried his best to control himself.... fortunately he has not ever done anything to a child directly and hopefully he will manage to stay that way.
I missed that part.
"Numerous counsellors helped them resolve some difficulties, but each concluded they could not overcome Henkel's paedophile tendencies."
NO CURE --but death.
So did everyone who actually read the article. He’s only been arrested one. Tried to commit suicide 3 times.
Castration’s a pretty severe option but it sounds like the only one.
A rabid dog can’t help being rabid, but you have to shoot it anyway.
It’s good to know that there’s some conscience left in some of them.
Thanks. :) I thought I had gone over it pretty well.
I think he’s likely to, especially since by choosing to publicize his name and face in this context, he’s making it much easier for parents and others protectors of children to identify him as a possible threat who should not have unsupervised access to any child. When you compare that with the many convicted child molestors in the US who have sued to prevent their pictures and other identifying information from being put on publicly accessible websites, and the slimy lawyers and judges and politicians who have, at least in some states, backed them up, this guy comes out looking about as good as anyone with this awful affliction possibly could.
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