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Billionaire Pleads Guilty to Sexual Assault Charge

Nope, not at all Chris,



Same bull****.

My state is MA. By clicking on the map, I was lead to this part of the website where I can obtain sex offenders in my area without typing in any specific name. It will list all of the listed sex offenders in my city.

Sex Offender Registry Board
 
My state is MA. By clicking on the map, I was lead to this part of the website where I can obtain sex offenders in my area without typing in any specific name. It will list all of the listed sex offenders in my city.

Sex Offender Registry Board

Only if you know the name of the offender when I clicked on my state. It was what I stated earlier.
 
Only if you know the name of the offender when I clicked on my state. It was what I stated earlier.

That is strange. I just checked your state for myself, and you're right. For Mass, all I have to do is select a city/town, and a list of all the registered offenders comes up for me. I think your state needs to fix that. All parents should be able to know if there is a pedophile living next door IMO.
 
never mind what my opinions are, what do you have to say about the topic, as I am not the topic here.
I wasn’t intending to be personal but this kind of topic tends to trigger simplistic, dare I say knee-jerk, responses and I believe the reality is more complex and difficult that they give credit for. Questioning those responses can lead to more considered responses.

My personal opinion is that paedophilia is sexual attraction to per-pubescent children and thus not really relevant to the case in this thread. In general terms though, I’m largely in agreement with your position as you’ve now presented it (though my preference regarding crime in general is rehabilitation and deterrence over raw punishment). Determining the specifics is the difficult part though, where everyone has opinions that few are really qualified to offer (myself included).
 
That is strange. I just checked your state for myself, and you're right. For Mass, all I have to do is select a city/town, and a list of all the registered offenders comes up for me. I think your state needs to fix that. All parents should be able to know if there is a pedophile living next door IMO.

I know laws vary by state, I wished at least they had some uniformity across the board on something like this.

I mean, how do we know there isn't one convicted and released sex offender living next door to us? This is messed up, putting it mildly.
 
I think of it as treatment and hopefully prevention. A lot of people are against it because of possible side effects from hormonal therapy, but I think the kids are more important.
Most definitely!
 
I mean, how do we know there isn't one convicted and released sex offender living next door to us? This is messed up, putting it mildly.
How would you act differently if you knew there was a convicted sex offender living in your area compared to how you act now, knowing there is likely to be unconvinced ones somewhere near by.
 
How would you act differently if you knew there was a convicted sex offender living in your area compared to how you act now, knowing there is likely to be unconvinced ones somewhere near by.

Since I'm almost 62 y.o., and have no children in the home now, it wouldn't bother me too much,

however, if I knew for a fact that a convicted pedophile was living in my ghetto, and my neighbors had children, I would inform the parent/s of those children and not say anything to the former offender, I would allow the parents of the child or children to handle the situation.

I do know for a fact that the offenders released into my ghetto have to follow certain guidelines, terms of their release, dictated by the state. One of those stipulations is that the former offenders have a NO CONTACT order with other tenants, and, the visitors of the former offenders also have a NO CONTACT stipulation, with other tenants, which has been violated numerous times, and the former offenders have been removed by the state and re-incarcerated for those violations.

Something as simple as knocking on another tenants door asking to borrow items,

e.g., one knocked on my door at 10:30 p.m. and asked to borrow a screwdriver.
 
How would you act differently if you knew there was a convicted sex offender living in your area compared to how you act now, knowing there is likely to be unconvinced ones somewhere near by.

KNOWING that there is one living next door as opposed to not makes a big difference, wouldn't you say? If that particular person approaches your child (or ANY child) while playing outside, you can call the police and have him arrested because they are not supposed to have ANY contact with children.
 
So it appears but given the reported lack of cooperation from the victim and her family and the lack of any other significant evidence, it was probably the best outcome achievable.

Why bother with court cases at all then. Why not just mob rule based on media coverage?

I'm also curious why it being implied that his being a billionaire somehow justifies greater punishment.

He's probably a Republican. If it were wealthy democrat, that sentence would be just fine and the Republicans would be asking that question.
 
KNOWING that there is one living next door as opposed to not makes a big difference, wouldn't you say? If that particular person approaches your child (or ANY child) while playing outside, you can call the police and have him arrested because they are not supposed to have ANY contact with children.
Fair point. To be honest I was thinking of systems where people are told there is a sex offender in the area rather than them being individually identified which is what I've experienced. What you're talking about is different (though while no contact with children is obvious, not contact with any other tenants sounds extreme and impractical to me).
 
He's probably a Republican. If it were wealthy democrat, that sentence would be just fine and the Republicans would be asking that question.
I don't think his politics has been raised as any kind of relevant point. I know a lot of Americans are irrationally obsessed with party-political labeling but you're not all that ignorant are you? :confused:
 
So it appears but given the reported lack of cooperation from the victim and her family and the lack of any other significant evidence, it was probably the best outcome achievable.

Why bother with court cases at all then. Why not just mob rule based on media coverage?

I'm also curious why it being implied that his being a billionaire somehow justifies greater punishment.

Greater punishment? 4 months for sexually assaulting a child? You are joking. Right? He should have gotten what most child molesters get when they are convicted of such a horrible crime. YEARS!!
 
Fair point. To be honest I was thinking of systems where people are told there is a sex offender in the area rather than them being individually identified which is what I've experienced. What you're talking about is different (though while no contact with children is obvious, not contact with any other tenants sounds extreme and impractical to me).

I've never heard of no contact with other adults, just children if they are convicted of pedophilia. I'm not sure what they do in the case of a rapist of adult women though. Maybe they aren't allowed to contact female tenants? Not sure about any of that. The only things I've ever heard of no contact being in relation to children if it's a pedophile, or the specific victim (s) involved in the crime.
 
Greater punishment? 4 months for sexually assaulting a child? You are joking. Right? He should have gotten what most child molesters get when they are convicted of such a horrible crime. YEARS!!

I think so too. I wish we could throw away the key on these sick bastards. However, someone made a really good point to me once (I think it was TD actually) that if we make the punishment TOO harsh, those same pedophiles may start murdering their victims to avoid prison. Now, I don't know if that can be proven in any way or if something like that would really actually happen, but it is something to think about.
 
Greater punishment? 4 months for sexually assaulting a child? You are joking. Right? He should have gotten what most child molesters get when they are convicted of such a horrible crime. YEARS!!
You missed my point. What happened in this case aside, there are people on the thread clearly implying that in general terms, being a billionaire justifies greater punishment than it should for anyone else. For example, the comment I was replying to was suggesting a prison uniform labelled "Billionaire Paedophile".
 
Greater punishment? 4 months for sexually assaulting a child? You are joking. Right? He should have gotten what most child molesters get when they are convicted of such a horrible crime. YEARS!!
You know this isn't this cowboy's first rodeo too. Once thing calm down he will strike again.

At least they need to make the public aware of this sick bastard. I think tattooing Dickhead across his forehead would suffice nicely.
 
You missed my point. What happened in this case aside, there are people on the thread clearly implying that in general terms, being a billionaire justifies greater punishment than it should for anyone else. For example, the comment I was replying to was suggesting a prison uniform labelled "Billionaire Paedophile".

I don't think that. I don't care if they're rich or poor or even homeless, they should all be chemically castrated.
 
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