Reply #37: this, to me, is justice, although I respect/understand the other posts

[frank frankly]

Pedophiles are the SCUM of the earth.

Save your compassion for their victims, who are CHILDREN.

Imagine it, a grown adult raping a child. What in the world could be worse? What is more fucked up? What else is more insane and destructive?

Also, to me, for the record, this has nothing to do with Catholicism. The fact this man was a priest is irrelevant. Yes, the Catholic Church has a rotten history up to the present regarding this, but that to me is not an indictment on the religion or Catholics.

If anybody should be removed from society, it is serial pedophiles, who are rarely convicted and if convicted given small sentences. And since we don't punish them legally or even acknowledge the scope of their influence and pathology, maybe this will scare a few of them and stop them. Or maybe it will get people like us at DU more aware of this serious, serious problem.

As someone who helped my girlfried put her stepfather in jail for child-rape, and someone who worked years in child pysch, I can say the justice system is wildly fucked up when it comes to this. We spent 2 years putting together a lock-solid case with the Assistant DA and various detectives, and he was convicted, and he went to jail for 18 months. He's been out for 10 years and is back working with children.

And this case is very uncommon because he went to jail at all. None of the monsters who abused the children I worked with went to jail. None.

I read a book about pedophiles once, it's timely now and a great read to boot:

http://www.incrediblythin.com/books_bookofspiral.php