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Originally Posted by hoodskier
2nd link 3rd page, part of his probation condition:
I'm all for punishing these sick people but come on, really? He goes back to jail if they find a Playboy in his car or home, that seems ridiculous.
Also don't understand how these people get away with serving 3-4 years in prison, lock them up for 20+ FFS.
There is reason to believe that for people like him, molesting kids is a compulsion that societies best hope is curbed by self control. Pornography can be manifested into urges that may cause him to act out upon other children. Fantasy is a predicate in certain types of criminals such as sexual predators and serial killers.
Recidivism rate for child molesters is very high and it leads to a tricky probation. There are a few levels of probation in the case of sexual offenders. The highest is involves violence coupled with rape, then child molesters, and so on based on likelihood of recidivism.
The tricky part is that in some of the higher levels is that the terms of the probation can be so intrusive that it is skirting on unconstitutional. Like searches of their house anytime a kid in the county is reported missing etc. But then again its hard to garner much sympathy when they reoffend at the levels they do.
A friend of mine was on probation for a DUI and a condition was he wasn't allowed to gamble. Now that seems goofy, but keeping a predator from having fantasy materials that may manifest into him reoffending doesn't sound too out of line to me.