by Ms. C. Jones

Created on: January 05, 2009

The Supreme Court has stated that it is "cruel and unusual punishment" to put a paedophile to death. Why is it that in our society we keep on making excuses for the scum on this planet? Someone who has been lobotomized has far better decision making capabilities than the members of the Supreme Court. When a child is sexually abused, paedophiles should lose all rights, including their right to exist. They are the lowest form of "it' on this planet. They don't even deserve to be classified as "human."

It is horrifying and incredible that a group of "so-called" intelligent and well educated men could come to this decision. It is their job to look at the rights of the criminal, that is a fact. My question is what about the victims of such crimes? What about their rights? What about their rights when they were defenceless children and could not protect themselves from these predators? What affect will this abuse have on victims lives if in fact they got to live? We, as adult have an obligation to protect our children in society. The Supreme Court justices need to know that this is in no way acceptable!

The Supreme Court is sending a very dangerous message to the people of America. They want Americans to think that most offenders are victims themselves and that they are mentally ill and therefore do not deserve the death penalty. Yes, there are some that are ill or have disabilities. A paedophile has a behavioural disorder that manifests itself as a total lack of empathy for their victims. They will offend again and again. Statistics tell us that paedophiles will abuse at least a hundred children or more over course of his/her life.

There is no known cure for paedophilia. Yes, there are treatment programs for sex offenders but the level of success is low. The greatest success come with early intervention when the offender is a teenager. Let's take a look at the state of California. The statistics on sex offenders is astounding and they are listed city by city. At any given time, there are thousands of offenders are cruising the streets, on internet chat sites or lurking outside of your window. They are just waiting for that golden opportunity to get their dirty little mitts on our children. Oh, these are the known offenders. How about those not yet caught with their pants down?

Riding home on a Greyhound bus one day, there was a man sitting next to my daughter, age 5, at that time. One hour into the bus trip, the man starts trying to grab at and touch my daughters bottom.

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