Pedophiles and Children DO NOT MIX!!! WTF???

[Conveyor Belt]

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061206/LOCAL/612060493

WESTMINSTER, Colo. -- A suburban mall suspended all visits with its Santa Claus Tuesday after learning a photographer taking pictures of children on St. Nick's lap was a registered sex offender from Indiana, police said.

Police contacted Jonathan Yeoman, an employee with a company that runs the Westminster Mall Santa display, after receiving a tip from Denver station KUSA-TV, Westminster police spokeswoman Stephanie Topkoff said.
"Knowing that a registered sex offender was potentially working with children at the Santa Claus display we quickly wanted to check into it," Topkoff told the station. "We don't know for sure if there has been any violation, as of right now it doesn't look like there is."
Yeoman was listed as a "lifetime notification" offender on the Indiana Sheriff's Sex Offender Registry for a 1992 conviction of child molestation. He served six years of his 10-year sentence out of Howard County, Ind., according to the registry.
Topkoff told The Associated Press that Yeoman had registered as a sex offender in Jefferson County, where he now lives.
No number was listed for Yeoman, but Topkoff said he told officers that he was not breaking the law by working as a Santa photographer.
"This guy is not on parole or probation," she said. "He's served his sentence."
Topkoff said that state law does not automatically prohibit registered sex offenders from being near children. Detectives will contact Indiana authorities to determine if the courts there have prohibited Yeoman from being near children.

What's with the attitude of the police in this? Oh, he's served his time for molesting someone's kids, so it's okay for him to take pictures of everyone elses kids... THIS MAKES ME SO ANGRY!!! C'mon, people, pull your heads out of yer arses, wipe of the shite, and open your f*cking EYES! You do not, Do not, DO NOT have convicted child molestors working around kids for ANY reason. I don't care if they've served their time or not. You're not going to have a bank hiring someone who's been convicted for embesselment, I would hope you wouldn't have a police officer who's been convicted of selling drugs, and you don't have a Santa photographer who's been convicted of molesting children.

[HoneyBun]

CB, it never ceases to amaze me when criminals are put in positions to allow them to commit the same crimes they were previously convicted of, but yet it happens every day. In the case of child molesters, they can NEVER change. It's not that they don't want to, they can't. This is not my opinion, this comes from the molesters themselves. I say they should clip their optic nerves to blind them for life and cut off their wee-wees. This may sound cruel to some, but not as cruel as ruining a child's life.

[amanda]

Got to protect all those civil liberties. I'm with Honey on this one - cut off their incentive and see how far it gets them!

[IGID]

I still say anybody convicted of rape or molestation, part of their sentence should be chemical castration.

[Maggie-Doodle]

IGID, I agree however I have seen one person who had undergone chemical castration but still raped a little girl of 4 yr. of age...not to be gross, but he used a broomstick! At that point I think he should have faced the death penalty and it carried out!

[Astra]

IGID, I agree however I have seen one person who had undergone chemical castration but still raped a little girl of 4 yr. of age...not to be gross, but he used a broomstick! At that point I think he should have faced the death penalty and it carried out!
In most cases, sex offenses aren't really about sex - they're about control. They're crimes where sex is used AS a weapon. He couldn't do it himself, so he used a broomstick as a proxy. The problem isn't going to be fixed with castration because it exists inside their minds.

[58ford]

I like life imprisonment for child molesters. The death penalty (lethal injection) is to lenient a punishment.
In prison when his offense becomes known, they have their own nice little living hell.
I hear they punch sex out child molesters' teeth so they can't bite.

[fuzzis]

I like life imprisonment for child molesters. The death penalty (lethal injection) is to lenient a punishment.
In prison when his offense becomes known, they have their own nice little living hell.
I hear they punch sex out child molesters' teeth so they can't bite.

I think that we need tougher sentencing guidelines for child molesters, and I think that we should all be lobbying our elected officials to make that happen.

fuzzis

[daisy]

Forgive me for being so naive but what is chemical castration? Dip it in acid? Expose to radiation or chemo?

I am like Astra, I think the terror that rapists try to inflict on their victims can take other channels. I think it comes from their head and heart.

[Desert Donkey]

If we were a civilized country, we would kill them and be done with it. All this pussyfooting around is only endangering more children.

[Astra]

Forgive me for being so naive but what is chemical castration? Dip it in acid? Expose to radiation or chemo?

I am like Astra, I think the terror that rapists try to inflict on their victims can take other channels. I think it comes from their head and heart.
I think it's a medication that is like Viagra in reverse. I know there are some cases of people who feel an attraction towards children who have sought it out because they fear they will act on their urges.

[daisy]

Looking at what I asked I am tempted to delete my post but won't because of the integrity of the thread and I still want to know more, maybe.

[dollfus46]

CB, it never ceases to amaze me when criminals are put in positions to allow them to commit the same crimes they were previously convicted of, but yet it happens every day. In the case of child molesters, they can NEVER change. It's not that they don't want to, they can't. This is not my opinion, this comes from the molesters themselves. I say they should clip their optic nerves to blind them for life and cut off their wee-wees. This may sound cruel to some, but not as cruel as ruining a child's life.

I ono, HoneyBun, cutting off their wee wee's just doesn't sound that cruel. There's just something too innocent about the word wee wee. :)

[dollfus46]

I still say anybody convicted of rape or molestation, part of their sentence should be chemical castration.

I still embrace the idea of nailing their testicles to a stump, setting it on fire and handing them a straight razor. Let them or the fire do it.

[dollfus46]

In most cases, sex offenses aren't really about sex - they're about control. They're crimes where sex is used AS a weapon. He couldn't do it himself, so he used a broomstick as a proxy. The problem isn't going to be fixed with castration because it exists inside their minds.

That's why I subscribe to Jessica's Law. Put them away for at least 25years to life, first time. And just my opinion, if the do get out, a second offense is treated like 1st Degree Murder, Life without parole or the death penalty. In the dude's case of using a brookstick on a 4 year old it should be death. If she was my daughter it'd be death. I'd see to that.

[dollfus46]

I think that we need tougher sentencing guidelines for child molesters, and I think that we should all be lobbying our elected officials to make that happen.

fuzzis


Agreed. I think MS has implemented Jessica's Law or it's in the works now.

[Blondie]

I know it scares me to know there are sex offenders registered or not walking around the streets here.

I just did a little research on Mississippi's penalty on the different sex crimes -

Sexual battery is up to 30 years for the first offense and up to 40 for the second or more offense. Any defendant who is ages 18-21 can get no more than 5 years imprisonment. Doesn't look like they have a minimum term to serve for this charge.

The Exploitation of a child which includes the pornography and computer enticement of children is 5 -40 years for the first offense and 20- life for the second or more offense. Looks like they have to serve a minimum of 5.

The Touching of a child for lustful purposes sentence is 2-15 years. Child is considered anyone under 16 years of age.

I'm not an attorney, so this is laymen's terms, but I think that's what I read.

[Olohian]

Castration may not be the answer, but it will me and the majority of people feel better about the guy that hurts kids. He needs to squat to pee for the rest of his life. I am not sure how to treat the woman convicted, but something like cutting her legs and arms off will be a start. that goes for the man to.

[HoneyBun]

Castration may not be the answer, but it will me and the majority of people feel better about the guy that hurts kids. He needs to squat to pee for the rest of his life. I am not sure how to treat the woman convicted, but something like cutting her legs and arms off will be a start. that goes for the man to.


I would vote for this idea too. Just make it to where they could never touch a child again. As far as putting them in prison for life, I think that is too lenient. I am sooooo tired of footing the bill for these criminals for life. I understand about their so-called rights and all of that crap but enough is enough. I say, take 'em out of our misery.

[Maggie-Doodle]

Astra you are exactly right about it being all about control. Having worked with domestic violence victims for so long, I see it in 99% of the dv cases I have worked...whether it be children or the adults that are victims.

[Astra]

Astra you are exactly right about it being all about control. Having worked with domestic violence victims for so long, I see it in 99% of the dv cases I have worked...whether it be children or the adults that are victims.
One of the areas I'm interested in is serial crimes and criminal psychology - my bookshelf raises a few eyebrows. The following is an excerpt from John Douglas' "The Cases That Haunt Us."

So where does the sexual component come in? Clearly, for the lust murderer, sex is joined in his mind and fantasies with power and control. Perhaps the best way to explain it is to use the definition of rape proposed by my friend Linda Fairstein, head of the New York County District Attorney's Office Sex Crimes Unit and one of the great heroes in the constant war against these predators. In the ongoing debate over whether to classify rape as a crime of sex or violence, Linda calls it a crime of violence in which sex is the weapon. Though in the Whitechapel crimes we're not dealing with rape per se, the distinction is still instructive.

I think Ms. Fairstein put it very well. There's a larger excerpt from that chapter at Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Cases-That-Haunt-Us/dp/product-description/0671017063).