What would you do to a guy who raped kids?

Question

... Would it make a difference if the guy were a 15 year old boy, who'd been raped by gunpoint by his own dad and brother?

I used to work in a juvenile mental health facility, and a big kid there, that was his history.

I don't like people sexually abusing kids, but I think usually they've got a painful history and are just re-enacting the life they've lived.

Thanks for your feedback.

Answer 1

Unfortunately I have had to wrestle with this question on a very personal level. I was sexually abused as a little girl and then raped two nights before my college graduation (I had only ever kissed a boy before this). I carried this pain with me for a long time and came close to ending my life several times because of the unbearable pain. I found out that my little sisters (they were 6 and 8) had been sexually assaulted and I wanted to seek out their attacker and kill him with my bare hands because I knew what pain they must have felt and will feel for the rest of their lives. Then I found out to my horror who their attacker was - just a 12 year old boy that I had known since he was born. How could this have happened? Was he abused? He won't say who but we know something happened. For years I did not speak to him or acknowledge his existance. He was incarerated for 4 years and has been released back into society. I didn't think I could face him but when I did I realized that he is just as broken as my sisters are, just as hurt as I was. He is still healing and has lost a part of his life so his debt is paid to society but there is still the part of me that fears that he might again harm someone else. Child abuse can be overcome with extensive therapy - it never goes away but the wounds do heal over and you can make a healthy life as an adult. All of this takes the commitment of the individual to work on recovery, to work at finding ways to get better. I hope that the young man that you have met has the opportunity to get help and the willpower to work on mental health. He still has a debt to his victims which he may or may not be able to ever find forgiveness from but that is layout of the road ahead and he must do all that he must to pay for his crime. I hope that my answer has helped you in your quest.

Answer 2

A lot of child abusers have been a victim themselves when they were children and it has damaged them severely. I believe that sex offenders and most certainly child molesters are seriously sick and there should be a good psychiatric evaluation to see if there is a therapy that can help them. Sad fact is that a lot of these sex offenders when back on the streets fall back into their old behavioral pattern. I think you have to study the background and the case very seriously before making a judgment and especially when it's is a young boy of 15 that has been a victim himself you need to examine all the possibilities to see if there is some way to help this boy and see if there is a therapy that can make him ready to step back into society someday without being risk to others especially young children. Because of his age there may be a good therapy and he may have bigger chances to one day have a future that other perpetrators who are older have not.
All rape cases are extreme serious matters that can never be taken lightly because of the damage and harm they bring to the victims. This boy is a victim and he may very well not be able to comprehend the seriousness of his actions because of all the harm and damage done to him but I believe he should be given a fair chance to a treatment or a therapy to see that all is tried to help him and give him the chance to one day build up a future for himself.

Answer 3

at least the kid is in a mental health facility, getting psychological treatment that it's fair to say he'll need now.

as for the offenders? they need to be put on trial. if i'm not mistaken, rape of a male is sodomy.. and sodomy is illegal in a whole bunch of states. so, charge them with rape, sodomy and whatever else you can pin on them. they should get a fair trial.. althought i don't know how the trial could ever be fair... any juror who's a parent would convict them in a heartbeat.

they should be reprimanded to MANDATORY counseling for the rest of their lives. twice a week until they die. i mean, sure they may have a past and are re-enacting their painful history... and that's something that will be with them forever... so they should be in therapy. forever.

Answer 4

Most of them are and I think what they've been through is a hell unimaginable by most of us. That, however, doesn't excuse him. I could never understand that if some horrible, terrible things were done to a person how they were then able to do it to others. I hope that somehow you people at the facility can help this kid and the others to get past the hells they've been through.

Answer 5

Listen. I was abused as a child, and I think it's a big bunch of BS that people blame their perversity on having been abused as a child. I don't do it. I think they ought to string up the perverts in the middle of town, and take a knife and peel their skin off, like peeling a banana or something. Then they should set 'em on fire, and when they start burning real good, squirt 'em with lighter fluid to make sure the fire don't go out. If by a miracle they would live through that, then take a sledge hammer and smash what's left of 'em into bits.

Answer 6

This guy definitely has some real mental issues He definitely needs to be in a mental health center He can not get the help he needs in a prison. As for others that do that if they do not have the mental issues like this guy castarate them and give them to "Bubba" when they go to the joint The fathger and brothe of the young man you mentioned should be shot like rapid dogs

Answer 7

A 15 yr old who raped kids needs help- but he has to pay a price to society and hopefully the help he gets with make him a productive citizen when he is released from his punishment.

Answer 8

It's a sad case, but it does not give him reason to do this to another child. The system failed by not getting him the psychological help he needed in the first place. His treatment can not be less than others, but maybe someone will have a heart.
It is really hard, what he must be going through. Prayers go out to him. It still doesn't help I know.

Answer 9

ive had this idea for 8 years. every person caught should not only go to jail but every month put him or her in a cell with guards or who ever and have them beat for at least an hour without killing them. have damadge done well say,but have that done every month without telling them when. or castration. my older brother was kidnapped by some sick @$!$ who did let him go though. raped him in a truckstop, which my bro loved loved loved big trucks. but any way he wasnt the only one either. the guy would torrment him by walking by our house whenever he felt like it. the bastard got off . i hate people like that.

Answer 10

The kid deserves a trial and mental health counseling. Then go after the kids abusers. They need to have their weapons confiscated.