Captain Pants wrote:
Hopefully this isn't 'fucked' of me to say... But I don't think Jail is even the right medium to approach the whole issue.
These people are sick, it's not something they can control -- It's the way they're born. It's not for financial, property or vengeful reasons its just who they are. Some people are heterosexual, some are homosexual, some are pedosexuals. Absolutely it's unacceptable and shouldn't be in the same sentence as the aforementioned two, however we have to stop looking at it as something that you can 'learn' from through punishment.
I don't have the answer, just jailing them isn't going to change them
I completely agree man. I worked with some of these guys before and I have a friend who is a counceler at the jail. These people are products of their upbringing. Most of them were abused as kids and that whole mind fuck makes them do what they do. It's disgusting and I want to strangle every one of them but I do understand them in a way I suppose. A secure mental health facility is a better fit but even those are under funded, under staffed and have shitty track records. There really isn't a reliable, high percent success treatment for them. I think the way to cure it is more like weeding the garden. Take the pedophiles out of society and you'll spread less weeds.