When an adult sexually abuses a child, is that not murder? When an adult destroys a childhood, has the adult not murdered a child? Does he not take away innocence, which can never be replaced? Does he not take away a future?
I can’t stand it any more, to see lives destroyed because an adult with no self-control used his cunning and power to take advantage of a child. The sexual predator spends a few years in jail, twenty years max. He resumes life unmarked except in a database. But for the victims, years pass but the issues remain and hurt her future relationships. The sexual abuse mars her love lives (I’ve separated love and sex), her friendships (you don’t care about me), her confidence (I’m still the same helpless little girl), her success (I don’t deserve to be happy).
Others brush it off, call her psychotic. Wrong. Real crazy follows no rhyme nor reason, but for these individuals, the main causes stay consistent. In my experience, I’m not sure even counseling can help these survivors deal with their demons: the damage seems permanent. The worst part is the helplessness to undo the damage that has happened so long ago.
A human being can control his impulses. A sexual predator fails the human test because he cannot control his urges. Thus, he is an animal. If an animal attacks a human being, other humans hunt down the animal and kill it. Why don’t we take the same course of action, and put these child rapists down? From knowing many close to me who live tortured by this every single day of their lives, I already know what I’d do if anyone ever did that to any of my children. These animals thrive off of the toleration of society. No more.
vicky_luu said,
June 15, 2009 @ 5:44 am
thank you
Joe Mahme said,
June 15, 2009 @ 8:28 am
even reading about this makes me shudder
awesomepie said,
June 15, 2009 @ 4:31 pm
It’s the 15th, half past a month, almost through session X, and I feel like I’ve become uninvolved. So everyone gets a comment today! Have a happy 15th:
I think you’re forgetting that the future of the rapist usually ends as well. Sex offenders are always registered and many communities will make a point to at least announce their presence, if not chase them out entirely. Personally, I believe this as well as the jail time is sufficient in most cases, but I can understand your fervent distaste for such heinous crimes. If you really want to convince people that the death penalty is best, you can appeal to their pathos by adding some specific instances in which someone raped a child and got off with a slap on the wrist. Just a thought. I mean, I don’t agree with the death penalty as a rule, but I imagine if that were my child, I would have little issue with murder. It’s a very emotional subject.
fadebot said,
June 15, 2009 @ 6:22 pm
Sufficient is subjective, and those punishments do seem plenty for those unexposed. To the victim and everyone who knows her, however, sufficient is not enough.
http://georgesheldon.com/scribbler/?p=868
http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=123281
http://www.vermontcynic.com/2.11606/vermont-judge-sentences-convicted-child-rapist-to-60-day-sentence-1.1612199
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/01/19/1200620280749.html
kuanjai said,
June 16, 2009 @ 9:51 pm
Death penalty is not an effective deterrent for decreasing rape agaisnt children, women and humanity as a whole… it does not help the surviviors to feel any better knowing their offender has been sentence to death…it cannot rectify any emotional wounds that takes a lifetime to heal … but you are definately right these rapist thrive off society toleration… Perhaps i am a woman of peace…and i believe as Ghandi once quoted “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”
fadebot said,
June 16, 2009 @ 10:23 pm
I agree with you that the death penalty is not an effective deterrent to crime. I agree that it will not heal emotional wounds. I agree that the death penalty is not a fair or useful legal institution.
However, I do believe that punishment exists to gather the public into common condemnation of unacceptable behavior, and the ultimate punishment exists to symbolize the ultimate crime.
I do believe that child rape is equivalent to murder, and that if a child rapist is dead, he will find it difficult to harm another child.
I do believe that if a child is raped in a family, a real man will not tolerate it and will do what is necessary.