True, we keep ours inaccessible, certainly no windows open and we are right in the next room. I wonder what else was left out of the story. Remember the one where the parents were asleep while the pit bull or rotty gnawed off the baby's feet?

While I'm all for public execution, it never works as a deterrent. I think it serves more as a means of revenge that satisfies everyone else's sense of justice.

We leave windows and doors open at night here. It is concievable that someone could come in and abduct our children (although I think they'd have trouble with the big ones). I might behave differently if we didn't have dogs in the yard with access to all areas of the exterior of the house, but I've never been without at least one large dog, which in my opinion is a better deterant than a locked door or window.

With regard to the topic of the thread.

Castration might not be a deterant, but it certainly couldn't hurt to do it anyway. Pun intended.

Don't forget the 18 year old guy that got caught bonking his 16 year old girlfriend, before they got married, had three kids, and lived happily ever after, is still a registered sex offender.

Works for me... and solves the problem at hand.

Well it certainly deters the executed one :thepain2:

You're right, of course. I know a "registered sex offender" who is a completely normal mother of three kids. Once upon a time, she found out that a boyfriend of hers was slightly underage (she was slightly over age). When she broke it off, he got depressed. The parents pressed charges.

Yes, so we'll have to round 'em all up and torture each one until they confess... then kill 'em. Much more civilized that way.

Also note that the crappy journalist included "violent and sex offenders" in the tally, which I'm pretty sure means violent offenders and sex offenders. So you're counting the dude who got into a barfight that one time, too.

I wondered about that but he started off the sentence...
I couldn't figure out if the registry is all inclusive or not?

Bruce, you added an excellent point. I had a friend who was dating someone who was 2 years younger than him, she was barely a minor. Parents were okay with them being together until he broke up with her for someone else... and the parents pressed charges. Now he's on the registry.

And recently they changed the registry, I believe. Now you either ARE or you AREN'T an offender. the old registry listed them by class. So now, the guy who slapped the girl's ass at the bar because he thought she was hot gets lumped in with the guy who raped 5 women and 2 kids. My kids' school sent home a note about the new changes, and I was talking to someone who said their so-and-so couldn't go to see his kids' recitals at school anymore, because he had some bogus charge before he was even a parent. It didn't matter to the school a few weeks before the law was changed, but now- under the new law- he's not allowed on the school grounds. Talk about failing the public. I'm all for protecting the school yard from sexual predators, but I think in rare cases like these, they should be able to petition the school board for some sort of waiver, to show that they didn't really do anything, and don't really deserve to be shut out.

Those Priests are at it again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZbWw1XlXyM

Pat, do you make and promote these videos for a living or is it a hobby?

Which is the same as castration; something that will not help the problem but make everyone feel better about the situation.

Public execution certainly stops one pedophile from ever doing it again - can't say the same for castration though.
(assuming he's been found guilty by a jury of his peers and all that.)