Aurora sex offender gets 13 years for child porn

Clearly, this man cannot be cured.

I was an abused young boy and i feel that they should have longer and stronger sentences on sex offenders.
It took me many years to over come what had happened to me and I finally have forgiven the offender as I had to in-order to get better myself.

Abused child my self wrote:

I was an abused young boy and i feel that they should have longer and stronger sentences on sex offenders.
It took me many years to over come what had happened to me and I finally have forgiven the offender as I had to in-order to get better myself.

I agree with you. We need a "two strikes your out" law on these types of offenders. Their recidivism rate is too high to be ignored.

Can you say "castration"? I knew you could.

Just Me in Chicago wrote:

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I agree with you. We need a "two strikes your out" law on these types of offenders. Their recidivism rate is too high to be ignored.

You are too generous with 2 strikes. First offense should put this person away for ever. I dont care if that means in prison for ever or in a pine box for ever. Just get them out of society forever, after 1 offense.

4 years probation for aggravated criminal sexual assault?

good to know the justice system is keeping us and our children safe!!!

I don't know who is worse, the criminal or the justice system here.

These people can not be cured. One offense should be enough to put them away forever.

“Their recidivism rate is too high to be ignored.”
Have you done any research to find out what the recidivism rate is? I would bet that it is much lower than you think. Let’s see a fact, rather than an opinion.
“These people can not be cured. One offense should be enough to put them away forever.”
The same used to be thought of DUI’s and drug offenses. In reality, these people do have a disease. For the most part, alcoholics, drug abuses, and sex offenders all have psychological issues, which means that they all CAN be treated. Of course, there are some unfortunate exceptions. This guy does seem like an exception. But most sex offenders are highly treatable, and Lake County has an excellent treatment and monitoring system.
I do agree that the second strike should be the last one. I’ve been given one chance to prove myself. The treatment program is working for me, and I don’t expect to be given another chance.

Sad, another 3 killed in Wis by a repeat drunk driver (3 DUI convictions). This talk re recidivism, and "tracking" offenders. Do you have facts to show sex offenders have higher rate than drunk drivers?

Just throw away the key!

I'd recommend treatment. With an olive pitter and a meat tenderizing mallet.

I dated a guy for 6 months and he never told me he was a Criminal Child Sex Offender.I found out on accident by the police. When I approached him on this he said he was 23 and she was 17. THATS WHAT THEY ALL SAY. I'm STILL sick about it to this day.What a sick f***

abc wrote:

“Their recidivism rate is too high to be ignored.”
Have you done any research to find out what the recidivism rate is? I would bet that it is much lower than you think. Let’s see a fact, rather than an opinion.

Recidvism rate is too high? The first offense is more then plenty of a reason to fry these disgusting perverts before they are even tempted with the opportunity to harm any more children.

abc wrote:

“These people can not be cured. One offense should be enough to put them away forever.”

I like the idea of one of the previous posts to put them away in a pine box. This will help with overcrowding prisons also and reduce the burdon on the US agricultural supply.

abc wrote:

The same used to be thought of DUI’s and drug offenses. In reality, these people do have a disease. For the most part, alcoholics, drug abuses, and sex offenders all have psychological issues, which means that they all CAN be treated. Of course, there are some unfortunate exceptions.

DUI's and drug offenses are victimless crimes that don't ruin the lives of every victim.

abc wrote:

I do agree that the second strike should be the last one. I’ve been given one chance to prove myself. The treatment program is working for me, and I don’t expect to be given another chance.

So what are you trying to say? Are you a cured pervert now?

dmr wrote:

I dated a guy for 6 months and he never told me he was a Criminal Child Sex Offender.I found out on accident by the police. When I approached him on this he said he was 23 and she was 17. THATS WHAT THEY ALL SAY. I'm STILL sick about it to this day.What a sick f***

I hope you kicked him in the balls on your way out the door. If the Penal System will not casterate them, maybe you can.

Wisconsin Reader wrote:

Sad, another 3 killed in Wis by a repeat drunk driver (3 DUI convictions). This talk re recidivism, and "tracking" offenders. Do you have facts to show sex offenders have higher rate than drunk drivers?

You're on the wrong board.

abc wrote:

“Their recidivism rate is too high to be ignored.”
Have you done any research to find out what the recidivism rate is? I would bet that it is much lower than you think. Let’s see a fact, rather than an opinion.
“These people can not be cured. One offense should be enough to put them away forever.”
The same used to be thought of DUI’s and drug offenses. In reality, these people do have a disease. For the most part, alcoholics, drug abuses, and sex offenders all have psychological issues, which means that they all CAN be treated. Of course, there are some unfortunate exceptions. This guy does seem like an exception. But most sex offenders are highly treatable, and Lake County has an excellent treatment and monitoring system.
I do agree that the second strike should be the last one. I’ve been given one chance to prove myself. The treatment program is working for me, and I don’t expect to be given another chance.

Well I hope it works for YOU but it doesn't in most cases that I personally know about. I'm looking up statistics -- you do the same and we'll meet back.

Rob S wrote:

Can you say "castration"? I knew you could.

Castration does not prevent offenders from molesting when given the opportunity. While sexual drive can indeed be deminished, the offender's desires will manifest themselves through the use of foreign objects, or even a proxy participant.

Sex Offenders are the other form of terrorist according to the government, because you don’t know who they are or where they are. So the government says to protect us and our children they will implant V Chips, not only in us, but in our cars, passports, identification, and run surveillance on our streets, homes, friends, and conversations. 96.5% of sex offenders are family members or friends to the victim, 97% are male, and only 3.5% of convicted sex offenders reoffend... Therefore the odds are YOU are more of a threat to commit a sex offense than a "sex offender". Mull over that for a moment.
What will the next set of laws be? Will they treat us more like criminals than they currently are over statistics like these? Will we again support them for the reasons or justifications of “good intentions�?
How can we prosecute people for life knowing how easy it is to be charged and convicted of a sex offense? Do you realize how many death row inmates have been found innocent due to D.N.A.? They convict sex offenders every day with merely ones word against anothers, today, a simple lie can wreck your life! How do V Chips, satellites, surveillance, and treating us like criminals stop our children from having a sexual encounter, or save us from terrorists that our government antagonizes?
There have however been thousands of vigilante attacks that have gotten an estimated 4000 innocent people hurt and even killed by mistaken identity or wrong addresses all together. In one case a pregnant woman was burned alive for nothing she had done. Now we harass or kill his/her family and friends as well? Is this what we have become? We now allow rights to be ignored?
There are now about 600,000 registered sex offenders, that is about the same number of truly patriotic men who died for those rights that you are ignoring. Anyone who would support breaking them is NOT patriotic Americans!!! As Americans how can we allow the government strip rights because they feel it’s (justified)?

I didn't read anything wrong. Maybe this will help you to understand.
The DoJ reported 3.5% of those sex offenders released were RECONVICTED for another sex crime, within 3 years, following their release.(DoJ Pg-24) see note below.

Accordingly, in 1994 victims reported 432,750 incidents. In 1994 3.5% of sex offenders released from prison (those who had previously committed one or more sex offenses) committed another sex offense (recidivated within 3-years of release).

The math:(100%- 3.5%= 96.5%) 96.5% of 432,750 = 417,603 committed by someone other than a former sex offender released from prison.

What more needs to be said?

Note: We do recognize that the 3.5% reconviction rate is over 3-years. When switching between rearrest, reconviction, recidivates, recidivism etc. all this muddys the waters and requires a careful read of what is being said. Part of the explanation is, when a person "recidivates" -that act whenever committed-, is rarely taken to court in the same year, reconviction -if any- would more likely be in the next year. Also it has been proven that most recidivism (actual acts) occurs in the first year following release. pg-16 DoJ. We also didn't feel a simple divide by 3 was fair either, so we just erred on the side of caution, and used 3.5% as an yearly figure.
Further Proof
Further proof that non-sex offenders commit more sex offenses than previously convicted sex offenders is found right within that DoJ Study:

DoJ pg-24 has this comment:
"The 15 States in this study released a total of 272,111 prisoners. The 9,691 released sex offenders made up less than 4% of that total. Of the remaining 262,420 non-sex offenders, 3,328 (1.3%) were RE-ARRESTED for a new sex crime within 3-years (not shown in table [12]). By comparison, the 5.3% REARREST rate for the 9,691 released sex offenders was 4-times higher...."

Here they are working with REARREST numbers not RECONVICTION numbers. Lets translate this into some hard numbers:

Released Offenders ReArrested for a New Sex Offense New Sex Offenses % of New Sex Offenses
9,691 Sex Offenders 5.3% 517 13%
262,420 Non-Sex Offenders 1.3% 3,328 87%
272,211 All Offenders Released 1.4% 3,845 100%

What this proves is, that non-sex offenders released from prison are the more dangerous group for committing new sex offenses. This study shows, that 87% of all new sex crimes committed by released prisoners, were committed by those who were not in prison for a sex offense.

Sex Offenders are the other form of terrorist according to the government, because you don’t know who they are or where they are. So the government says to protect us and our children they will implant V Chips, not only in us, but in our cars, passports, identification, and run surveillance on our streets, homes, friends, and conversations. 96.5% of sex offenders are family members or friends to the victim, 97% are male, and only 3.5% of convicted sex offenders reoffend... Therefore the odds are YOU are more of a threat to commit a sex offense than a "sex offender". Mull over that for a moment.
What will the next set of laws be? Will they treat us more like criminals than they currently are over statistics like these? Will we again support them for the reasons or justifications of “good intentions”?
How can we prosecute people for life knowing how easy it is to be charged and convicted of a sex offense? Do you realize how many death row inmates have been found innocent due to D.N.A.? They convict sex offenders every day with merely ones word against anothers, today, a simple lie can wreck your life! How do V Chips, satellites, surveillance, and treating us like criminals stop our children from having a sexual encounter, or save us from terrorists that our government antagonizes?
There have however been thousands of vigilante attacks that have gotten an estimated 4000 innocent people hurt and even killed by mistaken identity or wrong addresses all together. In one case a pregnant woman was burned alive for nothing she had done. Now we harass or kill his/her family and friends as well? Is this what we have become? We now allow rights to be ignored?
There are now about 600,000 registered sex offenders, that is about the same number of truly patriotic men who died for those rights that you are ignoring. Anyone who would support breaking them is NOT patriotic Americans!!! As Americans how can we allow the government strip rights because they feel it’s (justified)?