Speaking punishing criminals (or the lack thereof)....
Fox News reports that model citizen Brian DeVries is being released from prison in San Jose, California. So what? Well Mr. DeVries is what we like to call a serial sex offender. According to Fox, he has molested at least 9 young boys in New Hampshire, Florida and California. That is just the ones we know about. Now he is leaving prison and moving to Washington state, where perhaps he will have some anonymity? His parents are ecstatic...
"I think (the judge) made the right decision," DeVries' father, Barry, told reporters outside court. "Now he goes on with his life."
What about those 9+ boys he molested? Can they get on with their lives? Or has he scarred them for life? He has been in this treatment program for violent sex offenders since 1997, a whopping 7 years. 7 years. That is less than one year for every boy he molested, every life he destroyed.
The two psychologists who examined DeVries disagreed as to his readiness to rejoin society. The one who supported releasing him says...
"I think we have to allow people to change," Charlene Steen, a psychologist who evaluated DeVries and testified on his behalf, said Monday. "He has clearly changed his behavior ... He's done everything in his power not to reoffend."
Of course he hasn't reoffended, he has been locked up! I am all for people changing their lives, but we ought not put the children of Washington state at risk to see if DeVries is cured. Homosexuality is a deviant behavior, child molestation doubly so. He has been castrated, but my understanding is that is off limited efficacy. Homosexuality and pedophillia are mental disorders, so I would expect we will be hearing about another victim of Mr. DeVries in the not too distant future. Why do we let predators out on the street?
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