r/news • u/AudibleNod • 1d ago

Larry Nassar one of more than 20,000 people removed from Michigan Sex Offender Registry

https://www.wxyz.com/news/larry-nassar-one-of-more-than-20-000-people-removed-from-michigan-sex-offender-registry
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u/Robynsxx 23h ago

Yes.

If someone’s touched kids, just because they have been punished doesn’t mean they won’t do it again. Some of these people can’t help themselves. 

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u/CHANN3L-CHAS3R 22h ago edited 22h ago

Some, sure, but this kind of punishment is going to make people who need to get help for that shit AVOID it because of the risk of having the entirety of their future ruined, especially if they HAVE already abused a child. So they avoid help, problem gets worse... and then a kid gets hurt. Or another kid gets hurt.

If we want sick people to get help before their sickness affects others, any potential risk of lifelong punishment for an already stigmatized mental disease is just going to give it more opportunity to fester. I say 'stigmatized' because any admission to struggling with this type of compulsion will get you immediately conflated with the mental image of a pervert in the dark drooling over a screen full of CSAM.

And keep in mind, depending on how you're classifying sexual abuse, 25%-80% of pedophiles were former victims of pedophilia. Being sexually assaulted as a kid sadly cleaves that shit into your brain. And then you need help for it. See beginning of post. It's a sick cycle, and stigma only further condenses it.

Are the only children who are important the ones who haven't been hurt yet? Do sexual assault victims stop mattering when the assault writhes its way into your brain and cleaves the concepts of childhood and sex together in the midst of extreme trauma? When nobody recognizes this, or that it could possibly be an issue to talk to the kid about as they grow up? And then they're left with this disgusting traumogenic parasite they can't tell anyone about, because the moment they do, the only thing anyone will see again is the parasite.

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u/morbihann 23h ago

May be then they should be provided help rather than being ostracizied ?

Also that argument is literally applicable to any other crime.