STOCKTON, Calif., June 9, 2007
Sex Offenders Get Younger, More Violent
Cases Involving Juvenile Sex Offenders Has Risen 40% In 20 Years
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Wards from the sex offender treatment program line up in their dormitory before going outside for exercise at the O.H. Close Youth Correctional Facility in Stockton, Calif., on March 15, 2007. (AP Photo/Steve Yeater)
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During the same period, the list of programs specifically aimed at children under 12 grew from zero to 410, according to The Safer Society Foundation.
However, Franklin Zimring, a juvenile justice expert at the University of California, Berkeley, thinks many children are unnecessarily treated as sex offenders. True pedophiles are extremely rare among young people, he says.
“As long as the public temperature is up, you're going to get more referrals from the courts for treatment,” he said. “If you don't want to lock a kid up, treatment is a politically safe outcome.”
Many experts agree that some amount of sexual exploration by young people is healthy, a line is crossed when force and violence are involved, they say.
Recent incidents include the cases of two 13-year-old boys in Omaha, Neb., who were accused in January of videotaping their assault of two 5-year-old girls and a 3-year-old boy, and of an 8-year-old Buffalo, N.Y., boy accused of assaulting a 6-year-old boy after he saw a prison rape scene in an R-rated movie.
In Alaska, lawyer Dennis Maloney calls it an epidemic.
His state has one of nation's highest per capita rates of youth sex offenders in treatment and one of the highest rates of treatment programs per capita. Others in the top seven are Hawaii, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire and Vermont, according to the Safer Society Foundation.
Maloney represents the family of a 6-year-old boy raped by a fellow kindergartner. “He said 'Please, I'll be your best friend,”' the alleged victim said, according to a transcript of an interview with a police officer.
Experts say certain trends emerge among the cases of children charged with sex crimes against other children.
Many — estimates range from 40 percent to 80 percent — were molested themselves. And 42 percent have been exposed to hardcore pornography, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, an arm of the U.S. Department of Justice, said in a 2001 report.
Psychologists prefer to refer to juveniles charged with sex crimes as “sexually aggressive children,” rather than as sex offenders.
Psychologist Heather Bowlds, who runs a sex offender treatment program within California's Department of Juvenile Justice, says sexually aggressive children often have a skewed sense of sexuality in which force or violence becomes normal.
“Some kids see it as how you show affection, how you get your needs met,” she said. “If you're a kid watching your father rape your mother ... if I feel like I want it, I can get it, no matter what.”
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See all 71 CommentsEven the DA in this case stated that the punishment was harsh for consensual teenage sex.
I am not condoning sexual promiscuity, and I want our children protected from violent and sexually dangerous persons. But current and pending sex offender legislation and laws must be changed so that they can only be used to prosecute violent and sexually dangerous persons.
Readers, you may find this difficult to believe, I did at first, but there are kids as young as 10 on the sex offender registry for ?playing doctor? no violence involved. Kids as young as 12 for pinching another kid on the butt just joking around, and a long list of teens and young men for ?consensual sexual activity? as a result of girls who lied about their age and sought out sexual activity. And men for public urination on the golf course; how many men will this one put on the list.
Again, I am not condoning sexual promiscuity, but what was once 'petting' and normal sexual exploration between consenting underage teens is now grounds for ?life time registration as a sex offender? as young as 14 both boys and girls. And Government sanctioned Sex Offender "Treatment" Programs, including for juveniles as young as 12, and including cases of consensual sexual activity among peers, are barbaric and abusive!! These programs include the use of:
Plethysmographs - a metalized ring is strapped around a ?male? juvenile?s genitals (there is no such devise for females) and they are forced to listen to/watch pornography including deviant sexual activity such as violent rape! This barbaric and abusive device and recordings are designed to measure any signs of arousal and the juvenile is then forced to try and masturbate afterwards.
Masturbatory Satiation ? juvenile males as young as 12 are forced to masturbate over and over and over while listening to/viewing pornographic images/recordings, including deviant sexual activity such as violent rape.
Arousal Reconditioning ? Originally developed in the early to mid-1900s to convert homosexuals to heterosexuals. Attempts to eliminate sexual feelings by pairing them with boredom, pain, or unpleasantness. In effect, assumes that sexuality can be changed through ?punishment? such as electric shock therapy.
The current legislation, although very well intended, has seriously failed the true victims of violent sexual assault crimes and their families! And, it has resulted in what I believe were unintended consequences for potentially >95% of all youth and young adults who statistically could be convicted as sex offenders.
Please, join in the growing effort to immediately bring an end to this insanity before an entire generation is lost and registered as sex offenders.
Legislators, please begin immediate changes to legislation to stop this insanity!
Teachers wages in NZ were so bad that they were leaving like flies, they were below most jobs at the time, but regardless I wouldnt go out to work we just did without and I needed to loose weight anyway. I know what it is like to have to cut the worn center out of the sheets and sew the outside to become the inside to give the sheets a bit longer wear, I would undo jumpers and knit the good bits up again, I would make shorts for the boys out of my husbands trousers which had holes in the knees, etc, but we survived and were happy. Our children have all grown up well and say that they had the best childhood, one is a policeman, another is a senior project manager building a 46 storied buildin, the other two have their own business, and I organize building homes, and I AM A WOMAN..
We would have to wonder why do our allow such violence on TV, but we the people are also to blame as we should be out there on mass to force authorities to stop the violence, murders, rapes, etc on TV, but instead we call the actors 'STARS' and people idolize them..
You are right, we women should be able to walk the streets alone without fear, and how weak and pathetic rapists are who force themselves on woman who are weaker than them, I bet they wouldn't dare rape a man.
And yes sy2502 women do have rights, but we also have a responsibility towards our children... If you didn't dream of cooking and cleaning and being there to give your children the love they need, that is great it is your right, no one is forcing you to have kids.
When the children were at school and of a decent age, I started my own business, where I could also be there when the children got home, and I took in more money than my husband did as a Principal.. So yes, women need to be doing jobs of equal importance as men, but not at the detriment of our children, they are the worlds future.
There are jobs that women can do, they cannot lift the heavy things men do, women at period time are more likely to be off work, etc.. but women do a far better job of 'do I dare say it' nurturing children, as we are more loving, more caring of the needs of children, etc.. or have women now lost that gift also..
We have had to counsel so many teens whose mothers are not there for them, or the kids dont want to go to the mother because she is always just tooo tired from working... and because of this, others have had to step in, and of course others dont care like a mother should...
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1..Men bring home the bacon, it leaves the wife to look after the children as she does a better job than he does,
2.. that his name is passed on down to the children and through the sons,...other wise we have too many names and confusion.
3 ..experience has proven that it is better that he marries us and is the fathers of our children as that has been proven to give security and safety to the children, instead of the poor children having different men in and out of the home...
4.. HE IS KING OF THE HOUSE AND HIS RULES ARE OBEYED, yes this one was not good, we should work together, and a man lording it over the woman is wrong...
Michelle you have to remember that the life of our law is not discrimination but centuries of experience of things that worked... As women are better than men at multitasking there is nothing wrong with cleaning nappies and taking an outside job a couple of days a week... but our children must come first...
There is nothing equal about a woman chopping down trees or being a mechanic or going to war etc, there is simply just jobs that men do better than women and jobs that women do better than men, this isn't to say that if we have too that we can't do each others jobs.. but regardless of what feminists say, we are just made differently, we think differently, and we are not as strong as men, well physically anyway... I am proud of being a woman and proud that I have someone to look out for me and for me to want to care for him, we look after each other but in different ways and even though we love doing things together we still do our own thing, I hate golf he loves golf so on Saturdays he goes to golf and I type to you guys......
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There is no correlation between "pornography" and juvenile crime.
%u201CThe whole society is not yet up on this problem,%u201D Araji said. %u201CThese kids, on the extreme end, if nothing is done to catch them, they're going to become our adult offenders of tomorrow.%u201D"
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It's hard deal with this problem because the acts these people commit are so heinous, but I feel like behind each of these monsters is a story that needs to be explored because it's quite possible their abuser is still running around continuing the abuse and just escalating the problem exponentially.
I'd like to hear more about that man who murdered Kelsey Smith because on Nancy Grace they said he was adopted into a loving home at 7, but no matter what they did they just couldn't turn him around and had to finally give him up because he assaulted his sister. I think instead of wondering why the people around this guy didn't see the signs AFTER-the-fact, maybe we need to as a society not be so squeamish about hearing the facts of such horrible abuse to encourage people to face their abusers before they themselves choose abuse as their outlet?
Really tough situation . . . very hard stuff to deal with :(
Cases Involving Juvenile *** Offenders Has Risen 40% In 20 Years
This is really sad and scary. Based on what I've seen teenage boys viewing on the internet, I believe it is the hardcore violent porn they have access to. It's not the mild stuff of the 60s,70s,80s. It's quite disturbing and very violent, degrading and sadistic.
Men did not come forward because men do not support these laws. And, most men and real women are unaware lesbians (hiding behind the appearance of being human and female, which they aren't) have so thoroughly corrupted the legal and political system.
Until they are accused of some heinous offense. And then discover that "innocent until proven guilty" no longer applies if a male is accused by a female. If a female makes an accusation against a male, he is automatically guilty, regardless what the evidence shows.
And, if a male accuses a female, the standard is "she was justified, so no offense occurred."
Three examples of which are on currently on this webite. And there have been numerous examples since feminists began infesting and corrupting the legal and political system.
Feminists are a cancer on society.
Ohviously, you and I disagree.
Did you know that the US required, under penalty of law, men to murder other peoplem, including women and children, who had done nothing to them? And, to engage in incredibly dangerous behavior, quite often leading to loss of their own lives and limbs for no good reason other than because they were men.
The point being your blathering about isolated cases of spousal abuse when an entire gender was and is being abused by society as a whole demonstrates your bias. Which is clearly the result of your exposure to lesbian propaganda.
Here is the truth of the current situation:
%u201CThere aren't more kids, there are more laws,%u201D (psychologist Robert Prentky) said. %u201CWe now have fairly draconian laws with very harsh sanctions that apply to juveniles.%u201D
Odd how those "draconian laws" never influence the prosection of women or girls.
Examples:
Mary Kay Letourneau, given probation for repeated rapes of her student;
Mary Winkler, 60 days in a mental ward for cold blooded murdering her husband because she was mad.
And those are not unique, isolated incidents.
Those "draconian laws" are part of the lesbian agenda to demonize all men (as you continue attempting to do) and criminalize all heterosexual activity.
The solution is to repeal these lesbian inspired, anti-heterosexual laws.
Feminism is a cancer on society.
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