[mvpel]

We have an RSO who lives about a mile away. I'll be interested to see if he has decorations out and porch lights on this coming October 31 when I toddle around the neighborhood with my then-21-month-old boy.

[ClearBlueSky]

The recidivism of DEAD child molesters is 0%.
It's not where they live that worries me- it's THAT they live after conviction.

[Clint Williams]

An extensive study by the Department of Justice published in 2003 shows a recidivism rate for child molesters of just 3.3 percent in the first three years

I read judicial stats and that number is too low. It's somewhere 20-35% in the first three years, climbing to a lifetime probability of about 50%. (The numbers vary by location, definition of recidivism, etc., but a "meta-study" of some 60-odd other studies done for the WA state legislature about '98 came to that result.)

[Terabitten]

Still, instead of trying to keep tabs on every released offender, governments should target funds, personnel, and expertise to parolees in the high-risk group, monitoring them closely and working to rehabilitate them

This is one of my favorite pieces of liberal doublespeak. Homosexuals are "born that way," they can't help it, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. Why should child molesters be any different? Applying the liberal standard on homosexuals to child molesters, we should have no more hope that a child molester will suddenly stop wanting to molest children than that a homosexual will want to stop his buggery.

Of course, liberals are hypocrites by nature.

[cardinal4]

It's also important to remember that the rate of a repeat offense by a convicted child molester is low. "Sex offenders as a group have a relatively low recidivism rate. In fact, they have a lower recidivism rate than most other offenders," says John Q. La Fond, author of a new book, "Preventing Sexual Violence."

This goes against everything I have ever heard about sex offences..

[HangnJudge]

In the pioneer days, if a man molested children or women,
the local men in the community would take him out into the
woods and have a "Come to Jesus" meeting with him

He might have survive the night

[blogblogginaway]

"It's also important to remember that the rate of a repeat offense by a convicted child molester is low."

"very low"....well that ain't ZERO is it? People seem to forget who the victims are here. Helpless innocent children. I'm sure being molested as a child is enough to seriously mess anyone up for life as opposed to being an adult and the victim of a theft say.

[stm]

What concerns me most is Whacko Jacko, aka, Chester the Acquitted Molester, now has carte blanche to behave any way he chooses any time he wants with anyone he wants because he knows that the LA DA is going to need an absolutely air tight case against him to bring new charges. Even then he may hesitate for fear it will wind up with another ridiculous verdict like today's and will be seen as vindictiveness on the part of the state.

He's done it before, and he will do it again. Guaranteed

[jocon307]

"It's also important to remember that the rate of a repeat offense by a convicted child molester is low. "Sex offenders as a group have a relatively low recidivism rate. In fact, they have a lower recidivism rate than most other offenders," says John Q. La Fond, author of a new book, "Preventing Sexual Violence."

Where did they get this stuff? This is a complete opposite of everything else I've heard on this subject.

[jec41]

These laws would not be needed if we still used a good hemp rope and a tall oak tree.

[SkyPilot]

But as they go about drawing their security circles around children, these governments need to watch that they don't overreact.

"That's right. You're makin it sound so, so sexual. It isn't sexual. You are making it into a sexual thing. Look, I tuck them in, I give them hot milk and cookies, I put on music. It's very sweet."

[little jeremiah]

later pingout.

[Cindy]

"But as they go about drawing their security circles around children, these governments need to watch that they don't overreact:"

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OPINION: When it comes to CHILD MOLESTERS; there is no such thing as over-reaction.

If we aren't going to give them the death penalty and/or lock them up forever; then let's put them all (male and female) on an island where NO CHILDREN are allowed.

Keep them away from children forever.

[little jeremiah]

Moral Absolutes Ping.

I've got a solution, I wish they'd ask me. Just execute all child molesters and other sex offenders (if forcible rape) and voila! No need to worry about parole, mental hospitals, monitoring, and so on.

This article, BTW, is full of crap. LOW recidivism for child molesters? How can the writer lie like that and get away with it? Makes you wonder why the leftists are pandering to sex offenders. Could it be that they are gearing up to promote "inter-generational" sex?

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