So its all over the news that this guy was arrested and charged for child molesting. The cops are saying his crimes may date back to the early eighties, and apparently people are coming forward with more allegations. Its an almost sure bet that as this story unfolds it will be revealed that there were previous complaints or allegations made but that nothing came of it for one reason or another. I may be wrong but I doubt that I am.
Needless to say that anyone who harms a child to fulfill some deviant desire should be subjected to equally vile punishment and never given another opportunity to live in society, unfortunately that’s not the usual outcome in these cases. The best I can tell statistically the average pedophile serves around 7 years. There is so much conflicting data its hard to really pin it down. Suffice to say the vast majority of them will reenter society at some point down the road.The problem as I see it is that these creeps are treated as if they have a disease when in fact they are a disease.
In most prisons sex offenders are given the option to seek treatment while inside and rewarded with an earlier release than if they opt to do so. In Rochester they were kept separate from the general population while going through "treatment" and then shipped elsewhere when they were done. Shrinks will tell you that these guys are as much victim as predator, that almost all of them were abused as children. What they don’t bother to tell you is that the vast majority of victims of molestation do not go on to becoming child molesters themselves. I’ve never bought in to the school of thought that says they cant help it, its uncontrollable, but even if it is true then how does sitting around in group therapy with like minded dirt bags make them better? The short answer is that it doesn’t. If your wiring is so fucked up that you would rape someone, be it man , woman or child, then no amount of Rorschach tests and psycho babble is going to fix it.
Fucking up some kid for the rest of their life will get you seven years, and growing 10 pot plants can get you life, that’s the world we live in.
And what about the family and friends of these wack jobs, are they not paying any attention at all? I’m sure we have all worked with or lived near someone who we instantly knew that this guy is one creepy mother fucker. People who aren’t right in the head or who are capable of heinous shit are for the most part easy to spot. If a middle aged man spends time dressed as beetle juice working for free at haunted houses, dresses in an uber creepy Grinch outfit for xmas, then I’ve got to believe he was throwing up some other tell tale signs of weirdness. Ever see a picture of notorious wacko serial killer John Wayne Gacy in his clown suit, or sans clown suit for that matter?
People need to wake the fuck up, know who their kids are around and take measures to protect them. I realize that there will still be those who slip by undetected and in the end there is no way to protect every child all of the time. Bad shit happens, its inevitable, but I cant help but think that more of it could be prevented if people would wake up and look around.
