Anyone watch
Larry King yesterday? (link contains transcript to this topic) He had Judge Judy on, and she was really ablaze regarding what to do with pedophiles. Execute them. :wow:
She is spot-on when she says the life of the victim is altered forever. I know that personally too.
She has compassion for the victims and the families thereof.
She has none for the pig who violated the child.
And I'm compelled to agree with her 100%.
You don't fuck around with children. Figuratively. Or literally.
The relevant portion of the transcript is as follows:
SHEINDLIN: Child abuse. I think child abuse is the case that I find most abhorrent. And I cannot understand how a person, a parent, a grandparent, even a boyfriend, can mutilate and harm and burn and tie up and sexually molest a three year-old or a five year-old or a seven year-old.
I cannot understand why -- how a mother, even if she's addicted to drugs, will sell her eight year-old little girl for sex to get a couple of hits of crack. I can't -- I don't get that. I don't get that. And I don't know what to do.
You know, it was a problem in the family court, because you leave there and you say to yourself, you know, there are no answers. If you could test DNA and find out what, you know, what's in the brain causes that -- the ability to do that, I would say, you know, listen, you can have and you can't have, but we don't know what causes somebody to be able to do that to a child.
What causes a pedophile to kill a string of children? Children, you know, eight, six, eight, ten years old. I mean, I have no problem with killing them. And we talked about this before, because it's really the only way to cure a pedophile is to kill them. There is no other cure. And what has happened...
KING: You would capitally punish every convicted pedophile?
SHEINDLIN: Well, I mean, you know, unless you want to put them somewhere in the Sahara and make sure that they can't get away.
KING: This the would be a guess on your part, because so many of our guests have guessed at it. Why is pedophilia incurable?
SHEINDLIN: I no idea. I have no idea. Perhaps because it is so against nature that there is something so wrong with your wiring.
KING: So they can't help themselves, right? Obviously they can't help themselves?
SHEINDLIN: Well, I think that if they could help themselves...
KING: Who would do it?
SHEINDLIN: ... who would do it? Who would do it?
But then it comes down to, that's not a defense. I mean, my husband, when he tried a case once, that was the defense of the lawyer: he can't help himself. He can't help himself.
And your response has to be, you know, in sentencing, neither can I. This is what has to happen to you. You have to go away forever, because there is no capital punishment for pedophilia, you know, for sex offenses in our country.
KING: Do you believe in that theory, though, I think of compulsive behavior of -- you absolutely couldn't -- in the movie, "The Mark", which was a great movie about a guy who was a pedophile. And he described pedophilia as being in a car with no legs and no brake and at the bottom of the road is an eight year-old boy and you're the driver. Can't stop.
SHEINDLIN: Can't stop.
KING: Do you have any compassion for that?
SHEINDLIN: Do I have compassion for it? You know, my compassion is for the victim. My compassion is for the child, who, if they survive an act of pedophilia, will spend the rest of their lives a victim.
My sympathy -- my sympathy and compassion goes to the families of children who were killed by these pedophiles who can't control themselves. And, quite frankly, on a sympathy scale of one to ten, where is my sympathy for a pedophile?
About minus 50.
KING: But it's the case you least like to hear?
SHEINDLIN: Absolutely.
KING: How can people harm children?
SHEINDLIN: Right. I don't know.
KING: It almost boggles the mind.
SHEINDLIN: It does. You can understand why somebody would rob a bank. You can understand why somebody would steal a piece of jewelry. You can even understand why somebody would steal a car, either an adult or a kid would steal a car.
KING: You can even understand murder.
SHEINDLIN: Sometimes, sometimes. Absolutely. You know, especially with people who know each other, you know, their emotions...
KING: That's most murders, right?
SHEINDLIN: Right, most murders. Their emotions get the best of them. But that I cannot understand and neither can you, because you have your own children and you can't understand.
KING: Cannot.