I’m not a lawyer either but I was a prison governor. What I know from 28 years of observation, assessment and experience is that the vast majority of sex offenders do not change their spots. Ever. They plan, they prepare, and only then do they act. To believe otherwise is hopelessly naive or delusional - take your pick. The only guaranteed way to stop them is to put them in prison.
I share your exasperation with the criminal justice system and the way in which it fails victims, past and future, time and time again. Thank you, Gillian, for pointing out - far more eloquently than I could ever do - the curious pattern of unwillingness by the judiciary to see these crimes for what they are: a lifelong blight on the lives of the women and children victimised by these men.
A difficult and frustrating read for all the right reasons, thank you for sharing this with us. The child abusers getting away with the most heinous of crimes leave me filled with indescribable rage, as do their judges. How are so many judges just not that bothered about the rape of children? It's terrifying.
It really is, Georgia. And I don’t care how much legal types protest about rules and technicalities. The law just isn’t working right now, and hasn’t for a while.
Starmer is the oroblwm because he has a childlike belief thar the law is right however wrong it gets it.
It is all about process in his little mind.
I’m not a lawyer either but I was a prison governor. What I know from 28 years of observation, assessment and experience is that the vast majority of sex offenders do not change their spots. Ever. They plan, they prepare, and only then do they act. To believe otherwise is hopelessly naive or delusional - take your pick. The only guaranteed way to stop them is to put them in prison.
I share your exasperation with the criminal justice system and the way in which it fails victims, past and future, time and time again. Thank you, Gillian, for pointing out - far more eloquently than I could ever do - the curious pattern of unwillingness by the judiciary to see these crimes for what they are: a lifelong blight on the lives of the women and children victimised by these men.
A difficult and frustrating read for all the right reasons, thank you for sharing this with us. The child abusers getting away with the most heinous of crimes leave me filled with indescribable rage, as do their judges. How are so many judges just not that bothered about the rape of children? It's terrifying.
It really is, Georgia. And I don’t care how much legal types protest about rules and technicalities. The law just isn’t working right now, and hasn’t for a while.