Should child molesters be castrated?

Er, and what about the child molesters who are the kids parents? They are the majority.

If they are liable to execution/castration/prison, is the child likely to tell someone about the abuse?

No.

Therefore it is a stupid idea.

 

um the parents are not the majority of child molesters. the majority of child molesters is a friend of the family or another relative.

http://www.yellodyno.com/html/child_molester_stats.html

• Acquaintance perpetrators are the most common abusers, constituting approximately 70-90% of all reported perpetrators.
-Finkelhor, D. 1994.

• 89% of child sexual assault cases involve persons known to the child, such as a caretaker or family acquaintance.
-Diana Russell Survey, 1978

• 29% of child sexual abuse offenders are relatives, 60% are acquaintances, and only 11% are strangers.
-Diana Russell, The Secret Trauma, NY:Basic Books, 1986.

• For the vast majority of child victimizers in State prison, the victim was someone they knew before the crime. 1/3 had committed their crime against their own child, about 1/2 had a relationship with the victim as a friend, acquaintance, or relative other than offspring, about 1 in 7 reported the victim to have been a stranger to them.
-BJS Survey of State Prison Inmates, 1991.


and anyways no matter who the offender is, honestly needs to die especially if its a parent considering they are the ones who are always supposed to protect their child from such things.

and if a parent is willing to abuse their own child, they sure as hell aint safe around anyone elses child ever.

 

It seems like our entire system for dealing with pedophiles is not very effective.
We have various laws designed to make people feel safer but none of those laws are really all that helpful. For example pedophiles may not enter places where children congregate. If they are caught doing so they will go to jail. It seems to me however if they wanna go nab someones kid from such a location their gonna regardless of the law.
Some people have talked about chemical castration which supposedly works(assuming the pedophile is driven by a need for sex alone.) however it seems like there hasn't been all that much effort put into finding a good solution considering how much damage a pedophile can cause.
So... two options. One we kill pedophiles, not after castrating them, not after sending them to prison for 50 years, just kill them and let it be done.
Two, put more effort into actually helping pedophiles with their problem. Can a persons urge to molest children be cured? I don't know, it doesn't seem like much research effort has been put into this. What about just getting them to resist their urges? If a pedophile does feel the urge to molest someone can he/she safely turn anywhere for help?(P.A. (Pedophiles anonomous?)

I can understand someone not having any pity for a pedophile, its completly understandable. If you dont want to help a kind of person you may consider to be a monster well... they may just have to be killed to get them out of the way. And indeed perhaps they can't be helped.

Well thats all I had to say just some food for though I guess.

 

Ok, so lets say its 30%, and 30% are friends of the family. What I said still applies.

When a child is abused by a parent, they are often less likely to tell anyone if they think the parent will go to jail, let alone get executed. So the abuse continues. So the threat of severe punishment actually causes more abuse. Google that.

 

Actually, that's where you're wrong.

While my response would be similar to yours, it would not be a "rational" one: it would be totally irrational.

 

This. Seriously lets just stick to life in prison and that sort of thing.

 

the USA where legally one is a child until they are 18.

 

Which is what prevents me from voting "yes". I would hate to see a 18 year old boyfriend castrated for consensual sex with his 17 year old girlfriend.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/world/europe/11castrate.html?pagewanted=all

Important quotes from the above:

 

Read it - the majority of those castrated volunteered for the procedure - there is no such assurance that it would work if they were forced.

And I have to agree that if this were to be an option it would be better that chemical castration occurred since it is more likely to work (the testes are not the only glands in the body producing testosterone) and is less mutilating
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health-can-castration-cure-paedophiles-1154987.html

 

Even after they were physically incapable of sex, 2.3 percent repeated the offense? Seems like a pretty good argument that the driving motivation wasn't sex.

Of course, if the goal is to eliminate the threat without regard to the issue of cruel and unusual punishment, simply administering the death penalty would reduce that recidivism further.

 

If they are chronic, chop the chingaling. That way they won't spread VD in church.

 

INteresting. It is their power and psychological superiority over the prey that may drive them.

Exicution
That would terminate the problem and reduce the possibility of procreation. This is needed for evolution purposes.

 

Chemical castration makes logical sense. It might not be 100% effective, but nothing is. And I see few arguments that can be made that it would not at least improve the situation somewhat over what it is now. Moderate improvement is still improvement.

The death penalty on the other hand would likely backfire. It would result in more children being killed. Let's look at it from the molester's point of view for a second. If you're going to be put to death whether you kill the kid or not, there is no incentive to leave the child alive. This ultimately makes the situation even worse. And I am saying this as a hardcore proponent of capital punishment.

 

For 2.3 percent of them.

 

0.01% is too much in my eyes. straight death or life sentences with no chance in hell of parole are the only answer.

 

You like poor folks who are just living an "Alternative Lifestyle" to recieve special treatment ?

 

It does of course. But "repeat offender" does also.

What proportion of child molesters do not reoffend?