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Originally Posted by Marsh.
Oh yes, I see where you're coming from now.  I agree.
Pedophiles who commit crimes should be treated like any other criminal but ones that just want help like someone else struggling with any mental illness or addiction should be helped just as much. |
Yeah exactly, I mean I don't know how anyone can disagree with that - wouldn't you rather know that someone was seeking counselling to help manage their temptations to offend than the current situation where we only know that someone is a paedophile if they commit an offence?! And the only way that paedophiles will start seeking help is if they know that they're not going to be attacked by a lynch mob for admitting it. That's why I think it's brave that there are people who are willing to discuss this so publicly. It's a conversation that needs to be had and the people with the best insights are the people who feel that way; it's near enough impossible to get anyone to open up about it so that's why I think these people are brave for doing so. Not many would or have.
Plus, anyone who actually goes ahead and commits the crime is either extremely arrogant or extremely deranged, often both, as shown by the extremes of high-society-cover-ups exposed by Yewtree and infamous criminal cases like Sarah Payne, April Jones etc... - these people probably wouldn't seek out help even if it were there; they committed these crimes because their sense of right and wrong has been skewed by positions of power or just simply having no respect for the rule of law.