Three Legs

Back in blightly after 37 years behind Australian bars and coming to a playground near you ...



Thoughts ...

The wise old Three Legged one

boom_meringue

wouldn't want him living near me but when do you count a person as having paid for their crime? He deserves the chance to prove that he is no longer a threat to the community, but if he is still a threat to children then he should be locked away permenantly.

seang

This thing has reoffended everytime he has been released according to sky.

moneypenny20

Trouble is you can never know for sure whether he is or isn't until he has been out living near children. Tricky one. On the one side, he has done his time on the other, after all those years in prison he will be completely institutionalised and probably won't have a clue how to live in the real world.

I would love to say it was right to let him out BUT I don't want him living near me. Sorry.

steandleigh

This (in general) is such an emotive subject. I'll try not to get on my soap box, but:

Yes, Ok, he's served his time - what about the children he abused? - their 'time' will never end until the day they die - abuse, whether it be mental, physical or sexual lasts a lifetime and the mental scars are carried with you always. It affects your personal relationships and the way you handle life.

If there is unequivocal evidence proving such a crime, then the offender should remain in custody, end of.

No escape, no clean slate, no anonymity (yes, i know in this case he's all over the news...).

Scourge of society, praying on innocents too small too protect themselves.

Failing that, bring back the birch.

boom_meringue

I'm all for giving someone a second chance, if they abuse their second chance then they should be chemically castrated.

bridiej

I agree.

steandleigh

Sorry but didn't he have a 'chance' to redeem himself after the first child he abused? And how many more did he go on to abuse? I'd say he's had all his chances already.

Castrate him, but make sure it's painful.

ABCDiamond

Is this the one that has been paroled from prison three times and reoffended on each occasion. ?

http://www.theage.com.au/news/Nation...869028323.html

gobbyjock

What I find amazing is that his wife is still with him!! I know what I would have done if I`d been her and it certainly wouldn`t involve standing by my man.

bridiej

He would have had a Bobbit job if he'd been my o/h!

gobbyjock

Yep definately - maybe it`s just me but I think by standing by him she is saying what he`s doing is ok. I remember years ago there was a case where a mother was sent to jail for pouring boiling hot chip fat over her lodger after she found out he`d been interfering with her daughter.

marco121068

You'd have thought the parole board would have learnt their lesson after he was released for the second time and reoffended. Why the hell did they grant him parole the third time??

So he's now 'cured' after 40 years? Yeah right! Cut 'em off I say.

Flutterscutter

Maybe he was parolled knowing he was going to be deported, therefore absolving WA's responsibility to look after him and the costs that go with it.

Saying that, Britain has probably done the same. I remember the rumour that Jamie Bulgers killers were going to be shipped abroad, so i guess its not uncommon. Whether its right or not is another matter.

Professional Princess

A child has just one chance to be a child and nobody no matter what their sexual preference, their history or their mindset has the right to jeopordise that.

A Paedophille that people consider to 'have served their time' will be given many more chances to abuse children and ruin their precious little lives.

The child's chance at life supercedes that of a rehabilitated kiddy fiddler in all cases.

Someone that abuses children should never ever be given the chance to do it again.

When you say, 'give them a chance to serve their time and if they do it again to castrate them' Well why the hell should they be given that second chance when their victims wont get that privilege.

They are dangerous, they did it once because they liked it, and once they abuse the rights of a child, they should forfeit their own.

And absolutely NO second chances to do it again.

Because its never the rights of the do gooders that are violated is it?