Would you want Dennis Ferguson in your neighbourhood?

[beejay1]

This sort of issue always raises emotions. My beleif is that seldom does a child molestor reform yet penal authorities, shrinks, and governments alike seem always to want to show that the system and processes in place for reform can and do work for all criminals.
Personally i think that criminal acts like this should be always be given a life sentence without parole. Child molestation unlike murder is always pre meditated and i would think a sickness that cant be cured so I would like never to see people like that on the street. Childrens lives are too precious to put at risk.
beejay1

[silentC]

I read something about the original trial yesterday. The judge who put him away said he thought there was little hope for rehabilitation. That being so, why did they let the freak back out on the street?

[simon c]

Get the bandsaw from Carba-tec

We can't afford to wait that long

[simon c]

When I was in my early 20's I had a group of friends/aquaintences and one of them "disappeared" (basically he stopped going out and went to stay with his parents). He wasn't a close friend - ie I probably never went out for a drink with just him but he was one of the crowd and he was invited to my wedding as part of the crowd. He didn't come to the wedding because it was during his period "away". There were lots of rumours about HIV, cancer, family calamity etc.

When I got home from honeymoon the real story had come out.

He had followed a 12 yo girl home from school and knocked on the door of her house and asked questions if her parents were home etc. He did this a couple of times and then in the last time he forced his way into the house. An uncle returned and found him there and stopped anything happening. The court appearance was while I was on honeymoon. He got "a number of" years sentence for attempted rape with a minor. He hung himself during his first week in prison.

At the trial, his girlfriend (a really nice girl) stood by him. He was aware of his problem and was receiving counceling. This was his first offence.

It was a big shock to the group of friends. There were about 20 people in the list of firneds and if you were to ask me which one was going to be a child molestor, I would have picked a fair number of others before I even considered him.

It split the group in two. The ones who were his closest friends wanted us to remember him as he was to us - a party animal, always relaible for a bit of a laugh, etc. They renamed the annual golf game they used to play in his honour. Others were disgusted, they couldn't believe that somebody they knew, who had been to their house etc could do this. They thought about the 12 yo girl, who was badly affected. They thought about the girlfriend who had been such a stabling influence on his party behaviour.

Because it all happened while I was away, it all seemed other-worldly to me and I don't think I ever resolved the issue. I'm not sure I really eber connected the bloke I knew to the person who did this.

Simon

[Zed]

no offence simon but rock spiders get no sympathy from me. sounds like he's better dead.

[simon c]

Don't get me wrong zed, I wasn't looking for any sympathy for him - I tend to agree with you. The thought amonst the group at the time was that it was sad that this had happened to a friend of ours but it was probably for the best.

[Wood Butcher]

I have two kids under 7 years and waht scars me is that enis Ferguson refused pysch help in jail. Why was he let out is he refused help???????????

[Wood Borer]

I have read that these types firmly believe that having sex with children is perfectly OK. They consider the rest of us as being a bit dumb when it comes to our opinions.

When they are caught, they consider pretending to be sorry and pretending to be reformed to be a little white lie and keep up this pretence so they can quickly get back to their craft.

The behaviour of many of them seems to confirm this idea.

If that is the case then we don't need them - they cannot be reformed - they will re-offend - they will continue to destroy the lives of more kids.

These kids often become predators on kids when they mature and the whole cycle continues.

Rub them out. Don't gaol them, don't bother wasting time unsuccessfully trying to reform them. Slit their throats, not their scrotums.