Still Believe Sex Offenders Can Be Rehabilitated, Read This Rant!

[Beowulf]

I would like to start out by saying that this rant not only proves a point that sex offenders cannot be rehabilitated, but is deeply personal. Why? The man in the posted article, Alan Crickmore, who lost his daughter to a sex offender in 1986, is a family friend of my wife and her parents. My father-in-law, also participated in trying to find his daughter, Paulette. I've met the man and I have nothing short of respect for him.

In an interview on the Vermont news, Alan Crickmore reacted to the Mark Hulette sentence by Judge Edward Cashman. Even increasing it from 60 days to a 3 year minimum "was a slap-in-the-face to all affected by sex offenders.

The murderer in the case of Paulette Crickmore was Edwin Towne. He abducted her into his car and took her to a remote area where he repeatedly raped her and then shot her several times in the head with a single shot shot gun. Yes, he had to re-load it each shot he put into her head. Edwin Town has completed a sentence AND treatment for sexually assaulting a minor only 2 years before. This is all the proof I will ever need.

Please, take time to read this article. Pass it along if you would and get the word out that sex offenders cannot be rehabilitated. Then, think it over. I know most Freecers here will be angered by this but for those who still think rehabilitation is possible, ask yourself, "what if it was YOUR daughter in this case?"

The article:
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=4431484

[Eagle1]

only treatment for sex offenders is a good pistol whipping and a bullet to the head

[nene]

Sex offenders, particularly child sex offenders, deserve nothing but a quick passage to hell.

[Wolfcounsel]

Death to all sex offenders, and send them to Hell! SCREW REHABILITATION!

[routerider]

3 years? That's it? Then he can walk? To whom are the judges accountable to? This is outrageous.

[Melz]

Crickman makes a good point. The offenders must be kept in jail until there is a guarantee that they will never offend again.

Because there is no such gurantee, these societal shits should be locked away from day one! Whoever is hoping they get treatment is caught up in the "live and let live" hippie stage from days past. Didn't seem to work then and it won't work now. There has been no evidence EVER of a pedophile changing his ways. Because, until one is dead, how can you prove that?

I am not willing to ruin a child to do so, that's for sure!

[ldb83]

I believe it's possible to rehabilitate almost anyone. The thing is that not many people know how and not all offenders are alike. And like Melz said, it's not worth compromising people's safety to find out what could work best. Sad stuff.

[Beowulf]

I believe it's possible to rehabilitate almost anyone. The thing is that not many people know how and not all offenders are alike. And like Melz said, it's not worth compromising people's safety to find out what could work best. Sad stuff.

I won't argue with you on whether or not rehabilitation is possible in this case as I don't believe it is but I will agree with you that I don't want to find out if it has worked or not by releasing the felon into the public.

[Wolfcounsel]

"I believe it's possible to rehabilitate almost anyone. The thing is that not many people know how and not all offenders are alike." --ldb83

Yeah? Well, screw that. Once you have targeted an innocent person and harmed or killed him, you are automatically maggot food.

[Timberwolf]

I believe it's possible to rehabilitate almost anyone. The thing is that not many people know how and not all offenders are alike. And like Melz said, it's not worth compromising people's safety to find out what could work best. Sad stuff.
A murderer can be rehabilitated...a serial murderer cannot.
A rapist can be rehabilitated...a serial rapist cannot.
A first-time child rapist has crossed that line into "unable to rehabilitate". Raping an adult is about exerting power over another, knowing there's a possibility of resistance. Raping a child is far more heinous because there is no possibility of resistance PLUS it has a sexual element to it that does not exist in adult rape. Once the line of raping a child is crossed, the ONLY "way" to rehabilitate the offender is with a public, and quite painful (bordering on torturous) execution. Make an example of the offender as a deterent to others.

[Peachdiane]

We are the childrens' protectors and voices. I don't care why these sick bastards attack children, nor do I care how sex offenders themselves were abused when they were children. As adults they know right from wrong. They have no place in society; it is incurable.

Why play with the trash? Burn it.

[Rink]

Where's the bleeding hearts when they wanna 'protect the children' now??

Oddly silent arent they?

Bastards!

[DeclinetoState]

In all due fairness, I believe some "rehabilitation" programs are a joke. However, the punch line is not funny.