Lock sex offenders up for good (letter to editor)

[ letter to editor ]

This letter appears in the Spokesman Review,

August 21, 2005
Lock sex offenders up for good

This is in response to Carolyn Trueblood ("Why not castrate offenders?" Aug. 16) and all others who believe that castration is the answer to the epidemic of re-offending sexual predators. Castration does not work because the thing that makes a violent sexual predator what he is is not in his genitals. It's in his brain. You can remove their sexual organs, and they will use an object to commit a rape.

The reasons for why they do what they do can be discussed for years to come. What we need to do right now is just put a stop to it. How do we stop it? By putting our values back into the correct order. We have to value the lives of innocent children and women, above the freedom of guilty predators. In other words: stop letting them out of prison. Once they're in prison, let's just keep them there, and they won't be able to re-offend.

They cannot be cured. You can't tell if they are reformed, or if they are just acting like they are reformed. Become informed. Visit www.OneStrikeLaw.org. Currently, they get two strikes. Let's reduce that to one strike. Problem solved.

Mike Schuler