Child molester plans to isolate self (tells neighbors "Nuts to you!")

Associated Press ^ | 08/14/03 | KIM CURTIS

[bedolido]

SOLEDAD

[Wolfie]

4 years?!?! They should have planted some drugs on him so he got some real time.

[ChewedGum]

Serial child molester Brian DeVries says he understands the outrage among his new neighbors...

Honestly, I find this to be an encouraging sign. No guarantee but encouraging, at least to me. (BTW - I am an eternal optimist)

Gum

[oyez]

Nuts to you, huh?

I got his isolation right here.

[bedolido]

He decided to be castrated in August 2001 - a surgery DeVries said took away his ability to become sexually aroused.

This is why I added the additional comment to the title.

[RonF]

This guy has served his time and has paid his legal debt to society. He has a legal right to live somewhere as much as you and I. I sure as hell wouldn't want him to live next door to me, but if he did it wouldn't be my right to use the law to chase him off.

[RonF]

Hm. Let me rephrase that. It wouldn't be my right to use measures OUTSIDE the law to chase him off.

[Scenic Sounds]

DeVries said he hopes to complete the outpatient part of his treatment and return home to Washington state.

Please be patient. ;-)

[wbill]

Never thought that I'd stand up for a child molester, but you're right. This guy is making noises like he's rehabilitated.

Of course, if he backslides, a little double-ought should take care of the problem.

[Cathryn Crawford]

DeVries, 44, molested at least nine young boys in New Hampshire, Florida and San Jose before serving his last four-year prison term. He decided to be castrated in August 2001 - a surgery DeVries said took away his ability to become sexually aroused.

Good.

[HurkinMcGurkin]

child molester Brian DeVries says he understands the outrage among his new neighbors and promises to lay low in his first home as a free man -

Lay low? He only needs to lay about six feet under..... That's low enough for me.

[HurkinMcGurkin]

This guy has served his time and has paid his legal debt to society.

Under the current legal system, yes, he has "paid his legal debt to society". The problem is that he violated children. The children were injured. Now, a person who's punishment should have been life inprisonment or death, has paid his "debt to society(whatever "society" is) by serving a few years behind bars. Justice? I couldn't say that it is, but its what you get when you take the mindset that a person who has violated the rights of another owes a debt to "society" and not the victim.

[Chad Fairbanks]

I'd say that having one's testicles removed is a hell of a payment...

[HurkinMcGurkin]

I'd say that having one's testicles removed is a hell of a payment...

I do respect your opinion, but I believe that death is the appropriate punishment for child molestation. Even if they are "cured", so to speak. A murderer may not kill again if released, but that's not a consideration in my mind.

[Chad Fairbanks]

We don't disagree... But since currently the Death Penalty is not given to those who do (but it would be good if it was applied in those instances), then I guess I can live with the guy being neutered...

[mtbopfuyn]

I'd say that having one's testicles removed is a hell of a payment...

But there are a dozen other ways for him to get his jollies harming children. There is no "cure".

Even though, Atascadero doctors promise DeVries is not a threat they aren't sending out a very confident message since he's living right outside the prison wall and they will still monitor his movements with an ankle bracelet tracked by a global positioning satellite.

He claims the community won't see him out and about (yeah like they didn't see him all those times he molested children before he was caught) so tell me how he's going to buy groceries or a new pair of shoes, sign up for telephone service, get supplies to fix a broken toilet, drive to the post office to get stamps, carry out the garbage to the curb, and what about going out for work?

[Reeses]

a surgery DeVries said took away his ability to become sexually aroused.

This is blaming an inanimate object, making him out to be a victim of his male anatomy. Democrats love this thinking as it is a free get out of jail card. Women don't need balls to get sexually aroused and neither does Michael Jackson. What's to keep this guy someday from getting male hormone injections? Is there a law against him doing so?

[Chad Fairbanks]

So, what do you recommend? That the neighbors burn his place down, and chase him out of town?

Perhaps we should do more to pressure the "lawmakers" to stiffen the penalties for this - that would be a more worthwhile effort than harrassing the guy. He does have to live somewhere, since he can't be legally killed currently...

[Chad Fairbanks]

Again - what do you propose? He's legally free and clear - how about working to get the penalties for his crimes stiffened instead?

[HurkinMcGurkin]

Ok, I see where you are coming from.