[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Oh, give me a break. They are gonna put this guy away for life, and he has never hurt anyone?

Ah yes, the bleeding-heart wing of FR has arrived.

The scumbag deserves to rot in prison. Had he gotten away with this he would have likely broke into some woman's home and tried to do the real thing.

[teenyelliott]

I am most certainly not a bleeding heart. We in this country are bleeding money at every turn, and a big chunk of it goes to putting people in prison who pose no physical threat to others.

Put him on work release, put him on house arrest, whatever. But our prisons are packed to the brim, and I for one do not want to be taxed even more to build new ones.

Not to mention the fact that our courts are overloaded, our cops are overworked, and it is all due to over criminalization of our citizens.

Child rapists get less time than this, and then get out for good behavior because of over crowding so they can fit guys like this one in.

Violent offenders belong in jail or in the electric chair. Nonviolent need to pay their own way, not leech off of others, which is what happens when they go to jail.

Unless you are under the impression that "the gubmint" pays for it all, and I do not think that you are.

[Nextrush]

Don't be so rough on the guy. Its just an alternate lifestyle. (Sarcasm)

[supremedoctrine]

Ahhh,. you must have seen Tom Cruise in "Minority Report", where he arrested people for FUTURE crimes. Every totalitarian society does that in one form or another.
You'd fit in real well there.

[ReignOfError]

Had he gotten away with this he would have likely broke into some woman's home and tried to do the real thing.

Not likely. People don't just switch paraphilias. He's turned on by mannequins, and I don't see a lot of likelihood that move up to rape of a real, live woman unless she was standing motionless in a store window, and even then he'd lose the, erm, starch in his collar when the lady started moving.

I'd be interested in knowing what kind of mental health care, if any, he got in the joint, with follow-up afterward. That question isn't about feeling tender-hearted toward the perv. If he'd had had serious help inside and follow-up as a condition of parole, the authorities wouldn't have had to waste their time arresting and prosecuting him. At least six more times, and probably far more, because if he had six convictions he probably had at least a dozen arrests, probably going back to expunged juvenile cases.

[Bonaparte]

"... he would have likely broke into some woman's home..."

I could be wrong, but I don't this guy gives real women a second look.

[Prodigal Son]

Had he gotten away with this he would have likely broke into some woman's home and tried to do the real thing.

Oh come on. How many women do you know with a mannequin in their home?