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Date Posted: 12:19:47 03/30/03 Sun
Author: gypsy stardust
Subject: Wow! You don't mess around. Ask a hard one why don't ya?
In reply to: Jan 's message, "Well he is currently incarcerated (m)" on 15:07:09 03/29/03 Sat

This has to be one of the toughest situations I've seen in a long time.

I didn't read the AP article which might address some of what I am questioning so I may be way off here, but...

I am assuming he is a juvenile offender who was incarcerated for some non-sex-offender crime until his 18th birthday. I am also assuming that the last 180 day halfway house plan is fairly standard for the juvenile system in that area. It makes a lot of sense to me on an intellectual level. I would think that the child would need a supervised transition period going from incarceration to the outside world. It's the gut level I'm having trouble with.

He is making verbal threats against children. Presumably it is children in general and not specific children, but that makes little difference to me. The mom in me says put this sicko away where he can't have access to children, ever. But then my nagging sense of justice kicks in.

We live in a country that believes in rehabilitating our criminals. And if we are working under the premise that it is possible to rehabilitate, then we as a society should be willing to give the criminal who has done his time the benefit of the doubt and assume he/she has been rehabilitated and is capable of re-entering society. Since time has been served, he or she should have a clean slate and a shot at starting a life over, particularly when the criminal in question was a juvenile.

I know all this on an intellectual level, but somehow I still want to see this 18 year old put somewhere for good that will prevent him from preying on children. So much for my sense of justice, huh?

No answers here, only more questions...

Diane

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