[tutstar]

I can't speak as to whether the mother was a vigilant supervisor of her children, but obviously, in a situation like this, parental supervision would not have made a difference.

Right. That's why I said there's no guarantee because you could always be caught in the night unprepared or at some other inopportune time.

Florida has a center where they keep the "incurables" but the insane thing about the system is that there are a lot of repeat offenders who are living in our neighborhoods. The laws and penalties are not hard enough on the offenders to keep us safe, at least safer than we are now.

As far as I'm concerned, first offense and they have forfeited the privilege to live among the rest of us.

[fatnotlazy]

As far as I'm concerned, first offense and they have forfeited the privilege to live among the rest of us.

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I agree with you there. I don't buy the concept of sex offender 1, 2 and 3 -- with 3 being the "incurable" and the others perhaps worthy of rehabilitation.

We have to stop treating this as a disease -- the implication being that there is hope that with "treatment" the offenders can live normal, productive lives in civilized society. They cannot. We have to think of such behavior as evil, pure and simple. We need to treat these actions as heinous crimes punishable by death -- the only way to ensure these criminals NEVER have the potential of committing these crimes ever again.