"USA: The
Tragedy of Freeing Sex Offenders
 by Dr.
Judith Reisman
On
July 25, I asked in a column
entitled, "Porn
triggers acting out on victims? Really?" why the
Federal Bureau of Prisons
spiked its own sex-offender
study at Butner prison in
North Carolina.
The
Butner study, as it turns
out (newsflash!), found
that criminal sex offenders
tend to hide the extent of
their crimes.
Moreover,
although of 155 men arrested
"just" for child pornography
40 (26 percent) admitted to
being child molesters, it
turns out that later, 132
men (85 percent) confessed
to sexually abusing children
– admitting to 1,777
young victims.
So,
the Butner study finds the
allegedly "benign" lust for
child pornography correlates
with a 85 percent probability
of child sexual abuse. When
Butner refused to release
the study, lawyer Jan Larue
noted, "Judith Simon Garrett,
assistant general counsel
at the BOP, is heavily involved
in squelching the study."
Garrett believes sex offenders
deserve sexual media and wants
to eliminate "restrictions
on early release mechanisms."
Well,
now, two months after the
Butner report was leaked to
the New York Times, FindLaw
reports that U.S. District
Court Judge W. Earl Britt
has struck down a law aimed
at holding sex offenders indefinitely
in mental hospitals.
Coincidentally,
it turns out the decision
looks like it involves the
release of five men identified
as "sexually dangerous" at
the home of the embargoed
report: Butner prison.
The
liberal judge is anxious to
release all convicted sexual
predators. He says the government
must prove "beyond a reasonable
doubt" that each felon is
"unlikely to refrain from
sexually violent conduct in
the future as a result of
… [both] mental illness or
abnormality such as pedophilia."
Holding
some sex offenders at hospitals,
known as civil commitment,
was approved under a federal
law signed in 2006. The legislation
requires that the state prove
"clear and convincing" evidence,
(a lower standard than reasonable
doubt) that a convicted sex
offender is "sexually dangerous."
One
wonders if the embargoed Butner
report, proving massive sexual
violence against children
by their "residents," was
hidden from the judge?
Was
Judge Britt also ignorant
of the June 1996 Government
Accounting Office report "Sex
Offender Treatment: Research
Results Inconclusive About
What Works to Reduce Recidivism"?
That
GAO study of 500 sex offender
therapy programs over a 50-year
period cited no program that proved "beyond a reasonable
doubt" that there was any
"cure" for sex offenders.
Nor was there "clear and convincing"
evidence that sex offenders,
as a class, can be "cured."
Moreover,
a 2004 report on 724 Canadian
sex offenders validated the
U.S. GAO report. In "Jail
Programs had Little Effect
on Whether Freed Inmates Re-offended,"
roughly 22 percent of 724
treated and untreated sex
offenders had been reconvicted
of sex crimes within 12 years.
These
data reflect only those predators caught for another
sex crime within 12 years
of release. Even this high
rate of recidivism wildly
understates re-offenses, since
child molesters are commonly
undetected despite assaulting
scores of children for years.
Furthermore,
unfortunately there is no
way to tell who will
re-offend.
Paroling
sex offenders, treated or
no, into our disordered sexually
saturated environment is more
dangerous than playing Russian
roulette.
The
odds are much better than
1 in 4 that a parolee will
injure another innocent woman
or child, versus 1 in 6 of
injury from a single bullet
in a six-bullet gun chamber.
We
read daily of legislators,
teachers, prosecutors, judges,
doctors, ACLU lawyers, therapists,
psychologists, priests and
rabbis convicted of child
sexual abuse and child pornography.
With this in mind, why would
the judge want to release
sexual predators back into
sexual cyberspace and Internet
addiction, knowing that hundreds
of parolees will assault thousands
of additional victims?
Well,
surely the judge has no fear
of sexual assault on his own
person. Nor can a judge be
sued by victims or their families
for paroling a sex offender
who subsequently rapes and/or
kills again – an all
too common reality.
Judge
Britt has temporarily suspended
release of the sex offenders
until the government decides
to file a formal objection.
One
wonders, if some special interest
will spike the government's
motion to stay. The U.S. attorney's
office in Raleigh did not
immediately return calls,
said FindLaw.
Dr.
Judith Reisman is president
of the Institute for Media
Education and is the author
of "Kinsey, Crimes & Consequences."
More
is available at Reisman's
website.
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