No, I don't think that someone who is
accused of a crime should be railroaded through the system. All should be presumed innocent until proven guilty and we are all entitled to an attorney But, I also don't think that an attorney should have this attitude:
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Fagan said he’d grill victims so that, “when they’re 8 years old they throw up; when they’re 12 years old, they won’t sleep; when they’re 19 years old, they’ll have nightmares and they’ll never have a relationship with anybody.”
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But, I do think that if a person is
convicted of the heinous crime of child rape (and I'm not talking statutory rape, I mean
forcible rape), they should go to jail, not plea out for probation.
Just one excerpt from an article (of which there are innumerable):
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The reason many convicted sex offenders go out and molest more children, say sociologists and criminologists, is similar to why alcoholics continue to drink.
“Their sexual preference is for children. They have a compulsion to molest children,” said Keith F. Durkin, a criminologist at Ohio Northern University (search) and an expert in the study of pedophilia. “Many, if not all, will molest children until the day they die. They’re dangerous and they’re going to reoffend.”
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