Based on that argument, then shouldn’t sex offenders have the opportunity to be removed from the registry? I’m not advocating for that by any means, but if the father can’t act legally after a period of time deemed appropriate by a court, why is the offender registered forever? If we treat the criminal as forever guilty, doesn’t that remove the argument of “effect”?
Again, I feel that sex offenders deserve the lifetime registry; I’m only questioning the “effect” argument.
effect means basically in the rage of the moment and has a lot to do with “temporary insanity”. You literally do not know what you are doing / can’t control it AND it is perfectly understandable to any common person that they would have acted the same.
In this case, the perps has been back in the community for close to 10 years - and dad certainly knows this. His actions are not based on anything the perp “just did”. It would be quite difficult to find enough people that would simply exonerate him.
As to whether the perp only deserved a 5 year sentence and early release ... not enough facts in the article. Since dad also attacked a third person does not help his case much.
I am a firm believer in keeping a perp behind bars until
1. he has paid his debt AND
2. he longer poses a threat
if both of those are satisfied, he should be rehabilitated. We don’t do that (anymore) so we will always have theses travesties.