Do you think the punishment for child molestation should be a $50 fine?
453001
i think it should be death.
1168320
Yes. They let a child molester out because he was dying. Dr. Death shouldn't have been in prison in the first place. People should have the right to chose when they die.
889907
I think like that, but I'm also a big fan of "punishment should fit the crime," too. For these child molesters out here who think it's okay to do kids and babies that way, they need to tie them over a fifty gallon drum and shove a fence post up their ass. Repeatedly. then cut their penis off, stuff it in their mouth, and sew their lips shut around it.\n\nI'm mean, ain't I?
927493
Oh yes !!!!! Do the crime do the time ........................... you could set up different punishments for different crimes ..... Theft ..... once - one hand off ..... twice - other hand off (wouldn't do it again) Think about rape !!!!!!!
622650
Yes, it is punishment. Irregardless of what your Government tries to make you believe that it isn't punitive but administrative. If Registration isn't punitive, then why is there jail/prison time and sometimes a fine for failing to register? Doesn't being put in jail or prison make it punitive?\n\nThere are several things that should be done. The first thing is putting Megans Law back to its original intent. The original intent was to register Sexually Violent Predators. Also, the original intent was for this registry to be for law enforcement only. Of course, for law enforcement like badboy, that would be pretty scary. Incest offenders were not to be put on the registry when it was originally written as they have an extremely low recidivism rate.\n\nSecond, all prisons should have sex offender treatment therapy. Many states do not. The ones that do have proven with their statistics that the recidivism rate is as low as 1%. In some states, treatment is not started until after the offender has been released. \n\nThird, ALL parents need to supervise their children. They need to teach their children what good touch/bad touch is. They need to get them to realize that they must tell if a bad touch happens. They need to be taught that if someone touches them and tells them they will go to jail, they will be hurt or any other number of things, if they tell, that they are not true. \n\nFourth, they need therapy themselves. They need to learn forgiveness so that they can become Survivors instead of Victims. I was molested twice as a child. I am not a victim, I am a survivor. I detest the word victim.\n\nOur Forefathers wrote the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. What you people really need to fear, instead of sex offenders, is your Government that is not following these laws. In America, once a person has paid their debt to society, they are to be allowed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Rehabilitated former sex offenders and their families are not guaranteed this right. They are the only crime that isn't guaranteed this right. Drug dealers/users, drunk drivers, burglaries, have a much higher percentage of harming a child than a rehabilitated sex offender. There are more children harmed each year by drugs, gangs, drunk drivers, parental neglect, playground accidents, and drowning than there are by rehabilitated former sex offenders. \n\nIt is time to stop the scarlet letter. Use our tax dollars on Treatment and Education. Parents need to be educated to supervise their children while out playing and while on the internet. Parents need to be educated as to how to talk to their children. These are the things that will save a child. NOT an internet registry.
887027
Wow - I didnt know this.\n\nIf its true then it would be an isolated incident and I think punishing the majority from having fun because of an idiotoc minority is not fair.\n\nAs long as this youth is convicted and given an appropriate punishment such that justice is done then fine, plus it will serve as an example to others of what will happen if you choose to harm others with fireworks or otherwise.
867886
I believe that crimes against children should carry very stiff penalties including life sentences when the case has been proven beyond reasonable doubt.\n\nChild molesters have a very low rehabilitation rate and are more opt to re offend.And the victims of child molesters often become molesters themselves or worse.\n\nSecondly, when you victimize a child you are affecting the future of tomorrow because the children of today will be the ,leaders of tomorrow We are products of our environment.\n.\nI believe teachers that sexual abuse or molest their students should never be allowed back in the classroom with children nor in close contact with children.\nI believe that child molesters should not be allowed "free access" to children.Many states have registration for child molesters and sex offenders but due to either poor job performance or lack of money for the manpower to monitor molesters some are "falling through the cracks" and these are the most likely child sex offenders that eventually repeat the offense and sometimes the molester kills the child.\n\nI think drug dealers that sell drugs  to children should receive very stiff penalties. Any person or group that abuses children should  receive stiff jail sentences also.\n\nMy question is " Are any charges pending against the child's mother"? IF she was aware of what was going on and did nothing ;Is she not guilty of neglect, child endangerment. and be an accessory to sexual assault of a minor child?
1114149
If there is more than one child involved or if they are a repeat offender, then the death penalty.  And I'm serious.  There isn't a cure for this sickness.  They shouldn't be allowed to continue to ruin children's lives/futures.
542515
I do not think that they are born that way. Studies have shown that most were abused or watch some type of abuse in their homes...\nI do not think there is a cure for the sickness of touching on children...\nI think it is a waste of time to keep harboring these people in prison and then putting them back out on the streets to molest, rape, or worst kill children...Just about all molesters continue their acts of molesting once they are released form prison...\nI think that they should receive the death penalty for the acts...\nTHINK ABOUT IT...if a person committs murder they will receive a life sentence or if the crime is premediated..they could receive the death penalty...well...when a molester molests a child..the life as that child has known it has been taken a way...there innocence has been taken away..murdered...Some of these children do not grow up to lead successful lifes because they can not get rid of the thoughts of what has happened to them..They live in fear..This is why I feel molesters should receive life sentences or death penalty.
978559
I think the fine should be much higher and with at least some jail time... Then they should have to pay to see how many people who were harassed want to change their votes.
1011365
They should be awarded capital punishment, even in countries where it has been abolished.\nBy molesting someone you are destroying that persons life, maybe mentally too. Imagine the agony that some victims have to undergo day in and out as long as they are alive when they relive those ghastly moments. Comparatively, killing the perpetrators is a lot more humane. \nst
522266
I'm not completely sure but I think it's a $500 fine.
268424
Do you mean pedophiles? \n\nThere are people on the sex offender list that were caught masturbating on a boat. There are men on there in which a 16 year old girl tried to seduce them. \n\nPeople constantly get the terms mixed up and the media's brainwashing doesn't help. It just makes people paranoid. \n\nSure, I agree pedophiles that sexually molest a child should have harsh penalties. But not all sex offenders fall in that category.
1109097
I completely agree! It has its faults. I don't understand why they keep letting out these child molesters. These people will NEVER change.
1115000
No he shouldn't because our laws are too soft. He'd be able to destroy the lives of other innocent children and their families and all he'd get would be a slap on the wrist. \nHe should be made to pay for what he's done for the rest of his life. The shittiest hell hole on Earth is too good for him. He should be castrated and branded.\nHe gave up his human rights when he decided to be a pervert.
59153
I think there should be a $500 fine the first time someone does this, and licsense suspension if they do it again.
1088943
Please go slap whoever told you that....if there is proof that the child (no matter what its age) is being abused in any way shape or form, both parents can be charged. even if only one is doin the molesting.