Reply #55: Again,

[sandnsea]

They're equally bad. If you asked me whether I'd rather have my 3 year old killed, or my 3 year old molested and so psychologically damaged that he turned into a Ted Bundy, gee what a choice. I have a grown daughter. Would I rather have her murdered or psychologically destroyed, again, what a choice. I guess your sister came through okay, not everybody does. They're equally bad.

I honestly don't know why you insist on minimizing the harm caused by sexual assaults. I've never heard of a case where a drunk driver had 100 car accidents in his life, even if he was never caught. There is just no comparison. And there is just no such thing as a social sex offender. There is no comparison to an addict who steals to support his habit, which is the source of most property crimes. Sex offenses, particularly child molestation, are unique to themselves and continue to be a problem for people, separate from any other problems they may have. Child molestors keep offending, no matter how old they get. Most other anti-social young men grow out of their life of crime, eventually. That's just the way it is. The numbers you have been tossing around about sex offenses, for quite a while now, have been wrong and misleading. Sex offenders do not rehabilitate in anywhere near the numbers that would be necessary to give them the same kinds of parole opportunities other criminals get.