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Implement Death Penalty for Child Molesters

The Issue

I am an ordinary citizen, a parent just like many of you. However, my life was forever altered when my child fell victim to a child molester. This heinous act has wrecked my family and challenges our belief in justice. People who commit such inhumane actions should face the severest of consequences - the death penalty.

Thanks to the District Attorney and the Federal Government, my ex will be facing thirty years without parole. But that is not good enough for me! He has done immeasurable damage to my child's mind and spirit from his sexual assault and mental abuse. Not only did he assault, he also exposed her to child-porn videos and photos. These abusers are evil, and mentally ill. They deserve the death penalty so they will never harm another child. Data on recidivism rates of child molesters is very high.

In the United States, child sexual abuse is a widespread issue. The Department of Justice estimates that one in seven children has been solicited for unwanted sexual acts online. This is devastating evidence of the scale of the problem and necessitates action that is of equal weight. Therefore, I stand here today, calling upon our Justice System to implement the death penalty for child molesters.

Our country's founding principles are built on justice, and justice demands proportionate retribution. Not only would the implementation of the death penalty for child molesters provide closure for victims' families like mine, but it could also serve as a powerful deterrent to potential offenders.

We call upon the United States Government and legal system to reconsider their stance and impose the death penalty as a punitive measure for convicted child molesters. Please lend your voice to this endeavor and ensure that our children's safety is not compromised any longer.

PUBLIC DATA ON RECIDIVISM (Molesting again once released is very high)

Child Molesters
A relatively large body of research exists on the recidivism rates of child molesters. While unreported crime affects all recidivism research, it is particularly problematic in recidivism studies of child-molesting offenders as several studies have demonstrated that the likelihood that a sexual assault will be reported to law enforcement decreases with the victim's age (Kilpatrick, Saunders & Smith, 2003; Smith et al., 2000; Sorenson & Snow, 1991).

The study of sex offenders released from state prisons in 1994 by Langan, Schmitt and Durose (2003) included a large sample (4,295) of child molesters. The researchers reported that 5.1 percent of the 4,295 child molesters released from prison in 1994 were rearrested for a new sex crime within three years of their release, 14.1 percent were rearrested for a violent crime and 39.4 percent were rearrested for a crime of any kind. Similar to the pattern for rapists in the study, child molesters with more than one prior arrest had an overall recidivism rate nearly double (44.3 percent compared to 23.3 percent) that of child molesters with only one prior arrest.

As might be expected, child molesters were more likely than any other type of offender — sexual or nonsexual — to be arrested for a sex a crime against a child following release from prison. During the three-year postrelease follow-up period, 3.3 percent of the child molesters, 2.2 percent of all sex offenders and less than one-half of 1 percent of the non-sex offenders were arrested for child molestation.34 Released child molesters with more than one prior arrest for child molesting were three times more likely to be rearrested for child molesting than released child molesters with no more than one prior arrest (7.3 percent compared to 2.4 percent).

Three other studies mentioned in the prior discussion about the recidivism of rapists also make contributions to the knowledge base about the recidivism patterns of child molesters. As part of their larger study designed to evaluate risk assessment schemes for sexual offenders, Knight and Thornton (2007) examined the recidivism rates of child molesters. Their analysis examined the recidivism of child molesters who had been referred to the Massachusetts Treatment Center for evaluation between 1959 and 1984. Again, given the high-risk nature of these offenders and the length of time that has passed since these individuals committed their referral offense, findings from the analysis may have limited application to child molesters today. Still, several findings from the analysis are worth noting. First, Knight and Thornton (2007, p. 7) found a recidivism rate for child molesters of 12 percent after three years of follow-up (24 of 97 offenders recidivated) and 20 percent after 15 years of follow-up (18 of 91 offenders recidivated) based on a new serious sexual charge.35 Second, when the researchers examined the pace of recidivism in a comparative analysis involving child molesters and rapists, they found no difference in the speed of sexual recidivism between these two types of sex offenders. However, they did find that child molesters recidivated at a slower pace than rapists for both non-sexual victim-involved and victimless crimes."

Findings from Harris and Hanson's (2004) analysis are particularly compelling because they document differential rates of recidivism for different types of child molesters based on follow-up periods of five, 10 and 15 years. For all child molesters in the analysis, the researchers found five-, 10- and 15-year sexual recidivism rates based on new charges or convictions of 13 percent, 18 percent and 23 percent, respectively. Table 2 presents the study's recidivism estimates (based on new charges or convictions) for five-, 10- and 15-year follow-up periods for molesters of boys, molesters of girls and incest offenders.

https://smart.ojp.gov/somapi/chapter-5-adult-sex-offender-recidivism

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