If you could cast your own punishment on child abusers, what would it be?

Question

I'm all for castration.
also (seriously) I believe that all child abusers should live for a minimum of ONE YEAR in a half-way house in the middle of the desert away from the general population for further rehabilitation AFTER they are released from prison. (even though, sadly, most of them never rehabilitate!)

Answer 1

There is no such thing as are rehabilited child molester.....I think they should be treated to the same treatment in prison and then put in front of a firing squad and given the electric chair !

Answer 2

Wow... let's assume I am magical and can make it happen the way I want it to.

Upon capture and conviction, the abuser is subjected to a mental treatment during which he or she "lives through" the same things they have done to the child. As this happens, the trauma of the abuse is lifted from the child and put onto the abuser.

Now, since my idea assumes an awesome amount of control over the brain, we will add the caveat that abusers who are found to be truly repentant at this point will have the abuse damage removed from their psyches as well... including the old pain and trauma that caused them to behave the way they did in the first place.

The nonrepentant would be marked, so that as they live with the pain they caused, everyone knows it and can avoid them. They would have to try to live in society being shunned, outcast. We might allow them to have menial jobs.

I do find it interesting that your scenario seems to assume that all child-abusers are men... and that all of the respondents so far seem to assume you're talking about sexual abuse... and that those respondents seem to assume that all child sexual abuse is performed by men as well. Open your eyes, peoples. Men AND women abuse and sexually abuse children.

Answer 3

My punishment for a child abuser would be a combination punishment.I would first like the abuser to be taken to the deepest darkest dungeonlike prison-cell possible. There he should be subjected to physical and mental torchure in all forms for a minimum of one year. His prison cell should be such that no-one can hear his cries except his attackers. Then he must be publically flogged and humiliated for a a period of six months that would ultimately culminate in his castration. Six months hence he should be killed.

Answer 4

Castration sounds good.

How about we put them all on a deserted island somewhere in the middle of the ocean like Lord of the Flies and let em duke it out for seniority. After two years, the survivors can come back and live in the half-way house for another year.

Or Dragon could just breathe fire on em. Fire... Dragon likes fire...

Answer 5

I believe in eye for an eye when it comes to child abusers, the sexual ones should just be taken out into the streets and shot on the spot of being found guilty.

Answer 6

Castration..(after a liberal dose of battery acid..I wish)!
I also think life long treatment for psychological problems, checking in every week at a victims of sexual abuse clinic to see what they have caused, and a life long commitment to a registered sex offender program that tracks where they live and work.

Answer 7

Castration (while awake, no anesthesia) if it was sexual abuse.

For physical abuse, beat them within an inch of their life, so that they will survive and continue to suffer, but hopefully they will be too physically disabled to beat up another child.

Answer 8

I agree with castration. Rehab doesn't work. I believe that they hide their sickness and are never actually cured. I think we should ship them all to an island far, far away. They can all wallow in their sickness and play with each other.

Answer 9

Child molesters should be put to death child abusers should go to prison.

Answer 10

Death by dismemberment, slowly one week at a time, start week one with a finger, week two another finger etc. This would probably get people to think twice about it.