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To: r9etb; Little Ray

You may think both Little Ray and I are crass, but I wonder after the child has gone through all of your therapies and is now an adult, would you be willing to put him under your roof with your children to test out and see if he has in fact turned over a new leaf? Or even in the same neighborhood? Something tells me you wouldn't which means in effect that you offer all these lofty, sweet sounding solutions, but even you deep down inside do not believe he can be rehabilitated, not enough to risk your own family when he is released anyway.

I know when I talk eliminating folks like this, I am talking about cutting this disease out at its root. It doesn't mean all sexually abused children are disposed of along with their pervert abusers, but those children who show serious issues like this child(he is SEVEN and he RAPED another child!!!) should not be allowed to walk the streets ever again. I don't have any faith that someone that damaged can be among regular civilized society and certainly not among children. I feel so bad for this child that he was abused so horribly, but now he is an abuser too and it has to stop somewhere.


83 posted on 07/27/2004 12:38:02 PM PDT by cupcakes
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To: cupcakes
You may think both Little Ray and I are crass

More than a little crass, in fact. You're essentially claiming that rehabilitation is impossible (demonstrably false). If we follow your position to its messy logical conclusion, we would have to accept that nobody should ever be released from prison, no matter what the crime.

Surely you realize that there is a middle ground here. Some people cannot be rehabilitated. Some people can. We do not know into which category this 7-yo kid might fall. With careful work, and honest assessments, it is possible to tell the difference.

And if it were left up to you, we wouldn't even try. You're excluding the possibility, and it leads you to a ridiculous conclusion.

86 posted on 07/27/2004 12:52:37 PM PDT by r9etb
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