Child Abuse

[leahbee]

Does anyone agree with me that anyone convicted of child abuse should be castrated or steralized.

[B00]

Child abuse isnt always about penetration, just because they're unable to perform sexually doesn't mean they won't/can't physically abuse a child.

[sandyRoe]

Your suggestion doesn't go far enough. The offenders eyes would need to be put out so that they couldn't target victims. Amputate their hands and legs so they couldn't touch or go after victims, either.
Why don't you put your thoughts in a letter and send it to the Home Secretary?

[friedgreentomato]

Are you talking about sexual abuse of other forms of abuse.

Parents have been accused of abuse and have fought their case for years only to be found innocent - what happens to those?

You really have not thought this through have you?

[woofgang]

for those who advocate castration. what would you do to the women?
You are talking about people who abuse their own children, I agree that they should not be allowed to produce more, whatever the kind of abuse.

[jim360]

Why would it be a deterrent? People constantly go on about severe punishments being deterrents. How much crime was there, though, when virtually all crimes were punishable by death? Lots, is the answer. No-one who is a criminal is going to be deterred by severe punishments, for all sorts of reasons:

- They think they aren't going to be caught, so what does it matter if the punishment is severe?
- They don't think about or don't know of the punishment anyway, so it can't deter them;
- As sick as it may sound, I think it's likely that some of these people don't even realise what they are doing is even wrong. If you are doing nothing wrong, why fear punishment?
- Even those who do not what they are doing is wrong probably don't care, anyway. Nothing would deter or stop them.
- Finally (at least as much as I can think of) if some crimes are a spur-of-the-moment thing again little thought will have gone in to the consequences.

The biggest deterrent is usually not the severity of the punishment, but the likelihood of being found out. That will at least stop some wannabe child abusers from doing so. But no amount of castration will do anything to stop the problem.

[emmie]

dave, eunuchs were often made so by their owners, they were not sexual predators. Fancy being a slave and just for that reason someone decides to chop your bits off, not exactly fair would you say. Or made that way before you reached puberty, so you could work in a harem or household.

[Old_Geezer]

I don't believe anyone has the right to inflict surgery on another against their will and without their permission. One must not abuse someone in one's power, or stoop to their level. It sounds the sort of suggestion Mengele would champion.

[Zeuhl]

/If you abuse one child then you should lose the right to have another./

But you'd be OK with them abusing someone else's child

This notion of yours isn't standing up too well is it?

[sandyRoe]

Or sing in a Vatican choir. That's another sin that can be laid at the door of Rome.
but some years ago

[emmie]

not too well ^^

[Barmaid]

And what if we get the wrong person? Castrate them and then discover, oops, we got it wrong. "Sorry mate" isn't really going to cut the mustard is it?

[Zeuhl]

/eunuchs were often made so by their owners/

but were still able to 'service' the ladies - without the risk of pregnancy

hence the attractiveness of them to harem keepers

[China Doll]

A large proprotion of abuse involves digits, oral or another object. Penile penetration isn't always the method. So no, it's not going to stop anything. And as someone mentioned, what if the abuser is female? Also, there have been cases in America (I believe, it was something I picked up in a conversatio) where chemical castration has been used and people have gone on to by testosterone supplements from the internet to counter it.

[emmie]

zeuhl, that has not been my understanding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunuch

[leahbee]

yes I have read the answers but I wonder what they would be if you or one on your children had been a victim.

[B00]

If it happened to my child, id want the bugger dead, not castrated!

[AlwaysConfused]

Woman can be, and are abusers too. What do you do to those sicko's?

[hc4361]

leahbee, you cannot be subjective in legislation - the law must be objective to work properly.

[jim360]

I'd be seriously annoyed - but yes, the law cannot be emotional. If it is, it just becomes a lynch mob.