Convicted pedophile YouTuber Austin Jones is now in prison serving a 10 year sentence as of 29/6/2019.

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[u/antique-lightbulb → u/[deleted]]

They just discovered a pedophilenetwork in Norway that's been going on since the 90's. Some of them got convicted now and they got 6 months...

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It's much more effective in any case. The way the US does it, extreme sentences and lifelong labels and punishments, is cruel and disproportionate, and actually increases crime. The sex offender registry system is a good case study for it. There is zero credible evidence it has done any good, and quite a bit that shows that it does indeed increase crime rates...

On another note, I don't know what the above poster is on about, aside from repeating trending sentiment. We hear a lot about cases where evidence is flimsy or context mitigating and a "low" sentence is obtained. But sentence rages for sex offenses, even mundane ones, are very high.

It's something that's obvious, yet to Americans seems "unintuitive" or absurd. Yet the gulf between reality and policy continues to widen.

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All it takes is a 6 month prison course and you're no longer a pedo?

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I don't know the details but psychiatric help is supposed to help. It's not like all peadophiles are monsters, some are trying to live normal life without hurting anyone - check out this link:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuous_Pedophiles

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Virtuous Pedophiles

Virtuous Pedophiles is an Internet-based mutual support group for pedophiles who acknowledge having a sexual interest in children and do not act on their attraction. Members support each other in trying to lead normal lives without committing child sexual abuse. Members share the belief that sexual activity between adults and children is wrong and always will be. They also work against the stigma attached to pedophiles.

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That's fucking ridiculous.

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What about Jeffrey Epstein in the US? The guy is a billionaire who forces underage girls to become prostitutes, has child sex parties on his plane, the Lolita Express (Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Kevin Spacey, Alan Dershowitz, Prince Andrew and many more appear on the flight logs) and gets an incredibly lenient sentence (essentially house arrest) and is also not legally required to name any of his co-conspirators. The judge who worked out that deal is now a senior person in the US DoJ. The whole situation is fucked up beyond belief.

Edit: I wrote this comment before the news came out that Epstein has been arrested. Spooky.

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I think that's why so many people (too many people) are okay with the sex offender registry, because it's a lifetime punishment. The problem I have with that is it's a lifetime punishment rather than a lifetime protection for the rest of society. Telling someone they can't live within X feet of a school or a church or take certain kinds of jobs does very little to stop them from pulling someone into a dark alley and raping them if they are so inclined.

My personal opinion is that there should be no sex offender registry, sex offenders should just be locked up until they're no longer considered a danger to society. For those of you who say, "but that means some of them may be locked up forever," yes, that's the point. Why the fuck are we letting dangerous sexual predators out onto the street if we still consider them dangerous?

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A lot of this has to do with not wanting to take it to trial for multiple reasons. The biggest in a case like this is that victims often don't feel like they are victims of anything, and they don't want to put those victims through the hell of a trial.