If they are not going to incarcerate them for any length of time, I think all they need is a hole to pee out of. What are the stats for women that rape? How is that accomplished?:eyebrow:

Seriously?

Women molest their own children, with sticks and hands and...yeah, it happens.

Violence isn't curbed by cutting off the wee-wee.

Completely different set of circumstances/variables/causation, therefore, different effect than I was describing.

However, as an experiment, I just engaged a pride of lions, killed the alpha-male and all cubs.

Although I gave it my most sincere effort, I can assure you that none of the felines wanted to have sex with me...

Again.

I couldn't even impress them with my user name!?

and what punishment for the parents whose child was out in their nightdress in the middle of the night and they had no idea?

I disagree castration takes away the hormones and they have nothing that gives them pleasure in that way.

Agreed! There is a serious omission in this story's time line where the parents are completely unaware of, well, anything. Child is abducted or leaves home in the middle of the night, returns and goes back to bed before anyone takes notice?

I suppose anything could happen, but it is quite suspect.

I thought the story said the child was abducted from the home. I know people whose bedrooms are far enough away from their children's that they wouldn't hear quiet sounds. Perhaps the parents are heavy sleepers? Might be bad parenting, might not be.

It is hard to imagine a traumatized four year old opting to go back to bed rather than seek out its parents. That's a hard one to parse.

Almost as a footnote at the end of the story:

If you have a 4yo, you don't leave windows open that they could get out of, do you? really? And especially not if there are people around who might want to get in....

You should leave windows open period.

I don't think castration is the answer to pedophilia. It seems like a false sense of security; a cut and release policy isn't going to make anyone safer not really it really means that this pedophilia just has one less tool at his disposal.

Furthermore, incarceration outside the legal sentience of a judge(excluding prehearing detention) is not just wrong it is anti-American. If we are enforcing laws outside of the legal system then we are nothing more than a mob not only a mob but a lazy one that wont go out and draw and quarter its pedophiles but just locks them away illegally.

Finally I don't think true pedophiles or serial rapist can reformed; they are sick, mentally, and there is nothing that can be done to change them said for locking them in a deep dark hole or execution (fuck lethal injection bring back public execution by guillotine) which out laws should reflect.

Once they have absolute proof they have the right guy, castrate him right then and there and then make him choke to death on his own balls. No prison time, no appeals, just pain and death.

I've seen interviews with individuals who have undergone voluntary chemical castration and still fight the impulse to abuse. Castration does not address the behavioural disorder.

Does it help them win the fight?

I don't think chemical castration works. Testosterone can reverse this and its available.

How hard could it be to round up an angry mob to burn down 22 houses in one night? I'm not seeing much of a downside...because even if you don't get the right one, you still got 22 scumbags who don't deserve to live. And if they scurry from their ratholes, you could easily round them up and perform some of the other corrective actions described in this thread.

I don't think any other sexual predators would be moving into that neighborhood. Of course, there is the potential problem of developing some Freddy Krugerism.