What do we do with criminals such as this??

[thefantom1]

They prey on our children. Many times they are people in a position of trust. My opinion about these type of offenders is that they cannot be rehabilitated.. they will go through "treatment" be released and once again allowed to prey on our children. I feel that someone like this should be given life without parole. However..if it was my child that this was done to......... the only trial would be mine..... as I would premeditate to commit first degree murder....and if a jury convicted me I would be proud to serve in prison....... but try and find a jury (which would be almost all parents) that would convict me...... here is the story........ this just disgusts me.




Child molester gets 40 to 50 years

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By ROBERT O'NEILL

Aug. 17, 2001 | SALEM, Mass. (AP) --

A former youth ministry and YMCA worker was
sentenced to at least 40 years in prison Friday for raping
and assaulting boys he had befriended.

Christopher Reardon, 29, had faced up to life in prison in
the largest abuse case in state history. He had pleaded
guilty last month to 75 of 130 counts against him,
including child rape, indecent assault and battery on a
child and disseminating pornography. The charges
involved 24 boys ages 7 to 14.

Salem Superior Court Judge Isaac
Borenstein sentenced Reardon to at
least 40 to no more than 50 years in
prison. Had the judge sentenced
Reardon to life in prison, he could have
been eligible for parole in just 15 years,
but also could have spent his entire life
behind bars.

"It is clear to me that unless you are in jail for most of
your life, there is a serious risk to other people,"
Borenstein said.

The judge said Reardon caused more harm "than a
sadistic stranger on the street."

Prosecutors had recommended 50 to 75 years in prison.
Reardon's defense claimed he could be rehabilitated and
asked the judge for a 10- to 15-year sentence, with
treatment.

About three dozen family members of victims attended
the sentence. Some cried as the sentence was read.

"Christopher Reardon should never be left in a position
that would ever allow him to manipulate or abuse
another child," the victims' families said in a statement
read by Prosecutor Robert Brennan.

"I'm glad it's just all over," said one of the boys, who had
testified earlier this week that Reardon ruined his life.
"I'm glad he was sentenced to a long time. ... He
deserved it."

Reardon's parents, John and Catherine Reardon, sat
impassively in the courtroom. His sister, Kelly Kasprzak,
cried.

"On behalf of Christopher Reardon and his family, we're
all disappointed in the sentence," defense lawyer John
Andrews said afterward.

Reardon admitted molesting boys he befriended through
his job as the youth ministry coordinator at St. Agnes
Roman Catholic Church in Middleton, about 20 miles
north of Boston. He met other victims while working as a
Boy Scout leader and a swim instructor at a YMCA.

According to court records, police confiscated at least
two dozen pornographic videos, photographs of nude
children, inflatable dolls and sex toys from Reardon's
home and office.

Evidence included a videotape police found of Reardon
masturbating with a boy in the church rectory and
dozens of pages of charts and computerized
spreadsheets filled with meticulous notes and
descriptions of boys and how Reardon allegedly
assaulted them.

"All of the evidence shows you to be a person obsessed
with having and obtaining sexual gratification from young
boys, and I'm persuaded you present a very serious risk
to other young boys in the future," Borenstein said.

During the two-day sentencing hearing earlier this week,
some victims and their family members asked for the
maximum sentence.

But psychologist Carol Ball said Reardon "is not a totally
evil man." She and Dr. Murray Cohen testified they
believed Reardon could eventually be rehabilitated if
given a sentence that would allow him to seek
treatment.

The judge rejected Reardon's claims, made in a
presentencing report, that the boys initiated the
conduct, that he was trying to educate them about sex,
and that it was his former wife's fault for refusing to
consummate their marriage.

"The crimes you have committed are a serious violations
of the bodies, the minds and of the spirits of these
people, the most vulnerable members of our society,"
Borenstein told Reardon. "A truthful individual, as some
have called you, does not use his jobs to create a
secret world of sexual abuse."


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[Latimer]

They should give all child molestors the death penalty and the parents the option of administering it.

 

[SeXKiTTen_CanDy]

God dam it

They are sick, sick people.

Fuck there are some sick creatures out there.

These people should get the dealth penalty but first:

They should let the parents of the children mutilate the offenders genitals, cut them off and shove them down their throat.

People are sick.

If I had children (which i will some day), if anyone ever touched them I would get them and torture them. I would tie them up and slice their penis to shreads. I would also get a smoke and burn little holes all over their body.

 

[Laserdude]

I am with Fantom on this.

He deserves killing, without a doubt. Not to point fingers, but how does May 1010 feel about this kind of attrocity? And the rest of the gay bro's out there?

No offence but it is this stuff that shuts down us straight hetro's. We don't like to hear about people messing with kids period. I don't like to hear about this stuff but when I do, I come down hard on the perp. No matter what every time. Priests and others who use their trust to take advantage of kids are scum and deserve the very worst punishment one can met out. Death would only be too easy if I had any thing to say about it.

Enough said.

 

[Austin316]

castrate them, then make em eat it, testicles and all. Then mutiliate them each day for a week, then kill them. People who hurt children are monsters, they lost the right to claim being a human being when they harmed a child

 

[Frackal]

Certainly child molestors of this sort deserve the death penalty, but I feel life in prison without parole is more suitable, it's actually cheaper than the death penalty, and I don't think child molestors do too well in prison. I'm glad he's going for 50 years and I bet he gets his ass ridden every last day of it.

 

[Latimer]

Certainly child molestors of this sort deserve the death penalty, but I feel life in prison without parole is more suitable, it's actually cheaper than the death penalty, and I don't think child molestors do too well in prison. I'm glad he's going for 50 years and I bet he gets his ass ridden every last day of it.

How can executing a death penalty be cheaper than 50 years of the cost associated with keeping an inmate alive in prison?

Most prisons have a totally seperate ward or block where the child molestors are kept. It was nice to hear about that shit happening in the old days though.

 

[absolute hardgainer]

Child molesters and rapists should never be rehabilitated, they deserve to die in prison. Frackal, I take exception to your statement that you're glad that this offender will get his ass ridden every day in his 50 years in prison.

Allowing or even endorsing prisoner rape makes us no better than the rest of those scumbags who commit those types of crimes. Prisoners are in prison 'AS' punishment for their crimes, not 'FOR' punishment.

hardgainer (lock 'em up and throw away the key)

 

[Warik]

it's actually cheaper than the death penalty

Since when are a rope and a tree expensive?

-Warik

 

[Laserdude]

I'm with Warik, we have lots of suitable trees here and rope can be recycled and used again and again. No problem just give me the death warrant signed by the proper authority, a duly elected judge and I'd be more then happy to tie the knot my myself. Put him on the back of a skittish horse and give the horse a hard slap on the ass with a riding crop. Cheap, oats and a rope and a tree and a date with destiny.....Whats the problem? RyanH any comments? Where is May's answer? The rest of the gay bro's into the scene? I guess then my solution is acceptable..... I would hope that most of the gay bro's out there would back me on this one, if not you need not reply.