I say instead of doing it surgically, just give the parents of the victims one of these and a laser sight and let the fun begin =)
Posted on 02/17/2005 2:50:39 PM PST by wallcrawlr
Drug-induced castration should be among the punishments for sex offenders who victimize children, a state legislator said Thursday.
Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Delano, proposed allowing judges to require pedophiles to take sex-drive-suppressing drugs as part of their sentences in cases where the crime was extremely cruel, the victim was physically injured or the perpetrator had previous offenses. Emmer also would let pedophiles volunteer for physical castration on the operating table.
``We can't assume that we can keep building bigger and bigger buildings'' to house sex offenders, said the first-term legislator, who said he was prompted to write the bill after hearing hours of testimony on proposals to contain sex offenders.
He cited studies showing that castration significantly reduced repeat crimes by sex offenders motivated by sexual urges. ``That would control the urges that they cannot control themselves,'' he said.
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Volunteered castration and confinement or capital punishment. You choose.
Can that be performed by victim's family?
The drug-induced version is a joke. It requires constant monitoring to make sure they're actually taking it. These predators don't ever get well. Endless research has shown it's a permanent brain defect. The "treatment" needs to be of the permanent, surgical variety.
Is pedophilia really about sex per se, or about control? Most of these sickos would simply harm kids in a different way.
Broken beer bottle or rusty scissors....
Bill is nicer than Darrell.
This really needs further research,although it may help some situations. In the cases of rape, very often, the issue is violence, not a sexual issue. there have been situations where the sex offenders themselves have requested chemical treatment to reduce sexual urges. Better monitoring of released offenders is still paramount as rehabilitation has such an incredibly poor prognosis.
They say the brain is the center of sex.
So castrating about the neck line sounds fair.
WTF they shouldn't get the option of castration. If someone is convicted of molesting a child they should be hanged. To do otherwise is to condemn yet more children to these tragedies.
who, what, WHERE, when, why.
I say instead of doing it surgically, just give the parents of the victims one of these and a laser sight and let the fun begin =)
As far as I'm concerned, they're cutting off the wrong head.
how about a string? It would have minimal cost to the state and can be used to tie things up untill they fall off.
Surgical castration actually works.
Is that some form of moral equivalency??
Hmmmm!!!
SOME?
Forced castration, prior to the mandatory firing squad.
This all well and fine for males. Now how are females supposed to be castrated?
I lean towards death for nambla types.
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