Bill calls for sex offenders' castration - mandatory castration of violent sex offenders

Associated Press ^ | July 22, 2005 | BOB JOHNSON

[Tacis]

To answer your question, clearly, this punisnment would unfairly impact Hispanic and black offender worse than white. Hispanic families have more children than blacks or whites and black males father more children than whites. Therefore, the same punishment for the same crime would have a great punishment impact on a Hispanic or nlack perp than a white. There are lawyers already buying yachts on their potential winnings!

[LWalk18]

Can you cite an instance where a woman committed a violent sex crime against a child under age 12?

What is a "violent sex crime"? Depending on the defination, a woman would be quite capable of committing such an offense.

[SunnySide]

" During my criminal justice studies, we were introduced to cases where a person has gone through surgical and chemical castration as a means to prevent them from offending again. Castration did little to stop those who were hell bent on repeating their crimes."

Agree with you. The deviant "mind" wants what it wants. Their perverse actions are initiated in their perverse brain.

[johnny7]

I've 'heard' that it's NOT a guaranteed solution... the fu_kers still continue their behavior.

Put'm down like a rabid dog.

[Graymatter]

Whatever happened to Devil's Island? Give them their own beach. Patrolled by sharks.

[proudofthesouth]

I completely agree with you. Other body parts and other items can be used to molest/rape.

[Paine in the Neck]

They should make it mechanical (rather than chemical), it should be public, and every one on the sex-offender registry should be required to attend.

[MadIvan]

Simpler just to execute them. As they've destroyed lives, their lives should be destroyed.

Regards, Ivan

[stockpirate]

What all fail to understand is that the deed is NOT about sex. It is about alot of things but not sex, this is what the research shows.

[Graymatter]

Electronic bracelets are only good for tracking people willing to wear them.
Eventually, however, in the name of "fairness," everyone will be required to wear a chip embedded in their big toe, and we'll all be tracked everywhere, and punished for being untrackable. Like driver licenses, they'll be needed to move about "freely."
This country is going soft, what with a century of suckling at the govt mammaries. We don't (in sufficient numbers) uphold our culture, our heritage, our liberties---or our moral code.
Only the culture, heritage, rights and moral code of the justly convicted, elicit the sympathy of the left and the squishy middle, and that's the majority.

[Mcirrus]

Yeah, the old fashioned way...with a dull knife.

a dull plastic knife. Or spork.

[socialismisinsidious]

everything that I have read says that women make up about 5-10% of all offenders...it is true that they are not usually as "violent" (using drugs/alcohol to entice rather than force, but to me hurting any kid in this manner IS violent) and it is true that many of those are facilitators or reluctant partners--meaning that they aid an adult male b/c of some kind of fear of battery or abandonment and usually it is the woman's own female child that is hurt

not as common as male scum, but it does happen

one case that comes to mind: Carla Harris..accused of hurting a 3 year old (for some reason her name sticks with me...there have been other cases but I can't remember names)

also with women..this society, for some reason, thinks it isn't as bad or feels some kind of compassion for the woman (she was abused or hurt herself--boo hoo)...or they make jokes (like with that young blond teacher and the pre/early-teen boys) so it is often overlooked or downplayed

[Paleo Conservative]

I think they should be emasculated then placed in the general population of maximum security prisons.

[proudofthesouth]

True. That's the reason that I don't think castration will stop them from molesting/raping.

Back in the late '70's/early '80's in the city where I live there was a guy known as the "Southwest Molester". He used a hair brush to rape women.

[Tomato lover]

Castration of sex offenders is not a solution, in my opinion.

We had our male dog 'fixed,' but he still can & will readily mount any female dog in heat, he just doesn't make puppies.

Anyone bent on doing evil will find a way. Isolate them or eliminate them.

Regards,
Tomato Lover

[wagglebee]

Supreme Court Justice Scalia gave a speech a few months ago in which he discussed what the term "cruel and unusual punishment" meant. His view is that it means what it meant when the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, so if something was allowed then it should be allowed now. If we don't want to have a certain punishment now, that is fine, but it needs to be done legislatively rather than judicially. So based upon that, the question becomes, was castration considered a proper punishment in 1789? If it was, this would be Constitutional, otherwise it would probably be declared cruel and unusual punishment.

[r9etb]

What all fail to understand is that the deed is NOT about sex. It is about alot of things but not sex, this is what the research shows.

I don't believe that. Never have. There's a sexual aspect to this, otherwise they'd choose some other way to express their, well, whatever it is they're trying to express. They're sick and twisted, and their sexual desires are likewise sick and twisted.

[buffyt]

I think they should cut off their weenie, too.

[chgomac]

Well, my male cat does the same thing to my two female kitties and they've all been fixed. So there you go.

I vote for life in prison with out parole.

[stockpirate]

Belief doesn't change reality