OK lets attempt this…

@forumhostpb wrote:

@minim wrote:

………. How can we make sentencing tough enough to make people think twice about actually committing these crimes in the first place?

I was chewing this point over for a while – in terms of a punishment being a deterrent and it occurred to me that the severity of a punishment is not always in itself the deterrent. It is the fear of getting caught that acts as a deterrent to crime.

Problem is that ‘criminals’ don’t get caught often enough and when they finally are convicted of committing a crime, all the namby pamby ‘liberals’ come out of the woodwork with a variety of pathetic excuses as to why they ought not to be punished too severely …….. conveniently forgetting that this may have been one of many crimes they committed, but for which they wern’t caught & convicted.

My own preference is for punishments to be severe and based solely on retribution and NOT on rehabilitation. If they can’t behave, then simply lock ’em away and leave ’em to rot.

I have to say for paedophiles this is the way i want to go, thing is that so called rehabilitation is expensive and acually many are not able to be rehabilitated, dont run away with the idea that these people are mentally deranged either, many of them are very very clever people, having spoken to someone in chat called ‘daddy’ or some such name he wanted a very young very ‘small mouthed person’ sorry to be graphic but this is the way they go, i off course reported him, but it wont stop these type of people, many peadophiles are living amongst us and are never discovered because its members of a family and their prey are too scared to say anything, oh dont get me wrong, im not expecting that we all look to the male or the female members of our family as potential preidtors but the fact never the less remains, its classless, there are no visible signs i.e on foreheads im a peadophile, what do we do? what can we do? i just feel so useless at times , we all have strong views about it and to be honest PB’s and petes straight forward views of lock em up and throw away the key is to my mind about right, compassion? i have lots of compassion, for the kids that are violated and very often grow up into adulthood carrying the guilt and the trauma from childhood for being violated by the very people that were supposed to protect them!!!

@bat wrote:

Cath i know of the person called “daddy” your refering too in chat. He uses names like “tempted daddy” and “perverted daddy” to name but a few. And you spoke to him? Why? :?

i;m not sure how it came about to be honest bat, i normally leave the door to my box welded shut lol, but for some reason it was unlocked? anyway, i had a freind of mine round and was showing her jc she thought he was a wind up (she said it wasnt for her in the end lol) and it was her that he began talking too, anyway i went to make a cuppa or pour a drink or someat and he popped up , there is no way i would have gone into chat with him under normal circumstances, i know exactly what his chat names imply- which leads me to wonder why it isnt booted on sight? another subject ay lol

hope you and yours are well hunnie xxxx