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back in the 1980’s California used this excuse to implement a rule to let “non violent” sex offenders to be treated as an out patient. Newsweek lamented if you jailed the father hitting on his daughter, not only would he be in danger, but you would “break up the family”. We docs read journal articles telling us to push counseling, not to report the abuse. Something to remember when you hear about priests being released over and over again at the advice of their psychiatrists.

Within six months of California instituting “outpatient treatment” for these types, our town in the Rockies started to have have rumors of strangers going after our kids, and two girls who disappeared from a nearby small city...things sort of quieted down after one perpetrator kidnapped a girl sitting in a car at a gas station, was chased by the gas station attendant and the girl's brother, and the perpetrator managed to commit suicide with the gas station attendant's gun.

And a similar story occured when I lived in Pennsylvania.

But alas, too often it's hard to prove these cases so some cases I was involved with used a “plea bargain” to get a couple months or years for repeated abuse of their kid.