Child rapist pleads guilty

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6 responses to “Child rapist pleads guilty”

1. 

   December 9, 2007

   Dan

   From the news article: “I don’t believe someone is a healthy, well-adjusted individual and then one day snaps and rapes a baby.” Right. You would not believe how often kids do truly fucked up things and the adults around them bury their heads in the sand for as long as they can. I can practically guarantee there are several adults who know that teen and who are guiltily wondering if maybe bringing up incident Y or incident Z would have spared that baby the trauma.

   There has to be a way to get into these things before they happen. That teen is sick. He can’t function here and he is being removed from society a little too late. All schools need mental health counselors. Counselors hear stuff like “I fantasize about bringing a gun to school” or “I fantasize ________sex act and it scares me.” I worked with kids who fantasized about guns plenty, but there was never an incident. Not even close. Counselors either helped diffused those thoughts or removed kids from society if they were a genuine threat.

   These destructive teens are not “normal and well-adjusted.” We need to identify them. We need to remove them if they can’t control themselves. Why do we wait until they’ve done something awful? It’s not good or even fair to them to wait until they’ve committed a heinous act of violence. I promise you, the teen in this story would rather have been in a mental health facility for the past two years, easy.

   Also, the article says something about 95% of abused children not having physical signs. Most of that refers to how long it takes the kids and parents to alert authorities. Violated children are visibly injured.

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2. 

   December 13, 2007

   markme

   Oh but the irony of this is — all the adults chortling over the justice of sending this rapist, who is by age still not quite an adult, to adult jail knowing that child molesters tend to be raped to death.

   And of course the ideal of trying teens as adults even under rare circumstances sort brings the concept of statutory rape into question. Sort of like first there ought to be a trial to see if the underage person in fact meets the standards for being judged mentally an adult and thus no crime happened. You do sort of wonder about the cases with high school girls turned professional who have fake ID that pass some government and bank officials before getting caught.

   On the other hand Iowa or Nebraska had a state bill introduced that would make sex between any two more than 15 years apart statutory rape no matter how old the two people were. I think it got laughed out of session. But who thinks up these things? Supposedly some state senator was all bent out shape about his daughter…or was it his mother…marrying a much older guy.

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3. 

   December 13, 2007

   markme

   I guess I was wondering when society will get around to realizing some kids are criminally hazardous – but not adults.

   I think once that happens some of the outrageous stuff juveniles get away with will end (“Sure I killed my teacher with a handgun. But I am only 10 so send me back home as I didn’t know it was wrong.”)

   Now what to do with these serious kid offenders, the ones to whom “hard time” in juvenile hall means nothing, is another story. Holding them over for a later lifetime in adult prison seems pointless.

   Maybe these “no hope for self-correction” types should be made available to creditable, reviewed experimental drugs and behavior modification programs. OK it might kill them or not improve them – but what do we lose and what might we gain?

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4. 

   December 18, 2007

   James

   Send the kid to adult prison charge him as an adult or even have him executed it is sick to rape a infant i hope he gets his justice in prison!

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5. 

   January 6, 2008

   chris

   I wounder how he is doing in prison. Hope Big Bubba made him his bitch :p

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6. 

   January 6, 2008

   Dan

   Kids’ minds are incredibly malleable and fragile. Isn’t there a plot line with an adult having sex with an infant on South Park? There is. Most kids will see that and get the desired “ew, gross” effect. But many kids, numbed, won’t react much. Still other kids won’t get what an obscene perversion it is and run their minds over it. How dare we make widely available a show that jokingly celebrates infant rape, makes it seem acceptible and somehow not so bad and then react with such shocked horror when one kid gives it a try? We should be ashamed! Kids are not fully formed human beings. They just can’t take the shit we expose them to. We break them with horror far too young.

   Markme, I guess it seems to me that ideas about brain wiring during adolescence, esp. dealing with sexual feelings, are becoming better understood. We can’t seem to rewire sex offenders with therapy. Chances are, kids like this are lost. It’s terribly controversial, but I think these people might be applauded for choosing chemical or even surgical amputation of their sexuality. (as far as it’s merely chemical and physical.) Counseling is not enough. Punishment doesn’t mean shit. We so celebrate and elevate sexuality, and seemingly defend it as the ultimate human right, when what such broken people need is a way out. This kid’s going to be out living among us, maybe after the repeated raping in prison some of us are wishing on him?!?! Fear that.

   I think our first goal should be to keep him from hurting another child. As angry as we all are, unless we’re thinking execution or forcible castration (though that wouldn’t eliminate all such impulses) is going to be carried out, we have to think of a way to treat this boy like a human being. Hate him too hard, tell him he’s an utterly evil baby raper, and that is precisely what he will be, only this time with even fewer inhibitions because it’s monster him against the world.

   I’d like to see some exploration of the idea castration, not as a punishment but as a tool. Some offenders really cling to their chemical castration. Hate to tell you this guys, but most offenders aren’t sociopaths. Often they hate what they can barely resist doing, or they wrap themselves in protective justifications to convince themselves it’s not harmful and permit their sick behavior. If we want to do something about people, mostly males, preying on children, we’re going to have to face these males as people.

   And can we quit with the penis worship? It’s not a spiritual necessity. Sex of our choosing is not an inalienable right. We’re too reluctant to offer chemical or even physical castration as an option. If a person’s sexuality is broken, it is not the end of the world to abandon that sexuality. Penis penis penis, but what if your brain was wired (sometimes through your own horror) wrong? The penis is not everything. Being a good human being is.

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