Read the following article, and then assume with me the following things:
1. Most abusers were abused as children.
2. Most abusers are therefore unware that what they are doing is "wrong."
Is a life sentence for someone who has repeatedly raped and molested his three daughters from age six onward fair?
Now, setting aside the question of fairness, please assume also:
3. Most abusers are unable to stop being abusive.
4. Most abusers will abuse what they love, or what they hate, indiscriminately.
5. Most abusers can't tell the difference between caring or disliking for another person when that person can be useful as an object of abuse.
Setting aside the question of punishment, what should be done with an abuser to prevent future abuse?
Man who raped three daughters gets 28 years
By David Rudge
HAIFA (November 27) - A resident of the North who raped his three daughters from the time they were each six years of age was yesterday sentenced to a total of 28 years in prison by the Haifa District Court.
The sentence is believed to be the heaviest ever handed down for sex offenses within a nuclear family.
Two of the man's daughters, now 24 and 26, welcomed the sentence, saying their father had behaved like a monster.
The offenses occurred mainly in their home over the years. On one occasion, he sexually abused one of his daughters, then aged 14, while the rest of the family was in a sealed room during Iraqi Scud missile attacks in the 1991 Gulf War.
He also molested his daughters outside of the home when they were on vacation from school.
After the sentencing, his daughters said it was only just and fitting that their father should spend most of the rest of his life in prison.
They said he had made their lives a misery, taken away all their self-respect and self-confidence, and left them hurt and helpless.
"He is not a father, but a monster in the guise of a father. He's simply horrible," one of the young women told reporters at the courthouse yesterday.
"He murdered innocent souls, not one and not two. I can't say that there is satisfaction over the sentence, because he can never be [truly] punished for what he did," said her sister.
"Unfortunately, we are his daughters. It's good that he has been given such a long sentence, because when other girls hear or read about this case, it should give them the courage to complain about their father, uncle, neighbor, or whoever else," said the youngest.
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/11/27/News/News.38847.html
1. Most abusers were abused as children.
2. Most abusers are therefore unware that what they are doing is "wrong."
Is a life sentence for someone who has repeatedly raped and molested his three daughters from age six onward fair?
Now, setting aside the question of fairness, please assume also:
3. Most abusers are unable to stop being abusive.
4. Most abusers will abuse what they love, or what they hate, indiscriminately.
5. Most abusers can't tell the difference between caring or disliking for another person when that person can be useful as an object of abuse.
Setting aside the question of punishment, what should be done with an abuser to prevent future abuse?
Man who raped three daughters gets 28 years
By David Rudge
HAIFA (November 27) - A resident of the North who raped his three daughters from the time they were each six years of age was yesterday sentenced to a total of 28 years in prison by the Haifa District Court.
The sentence is believed to be the heaviest ever handed down for sex offenses within a nuclear family.
Two of the man's daughters, now 24 and 26, welcomed the sentence, saying their father had behaved like a monster.
The offenses occurred mainly in their home over the years. On one occasion, he sexually abused one of his daughters, then aged 14, while the rest of the family was in a sealed room during Iraqi Scud missile attacks in the 1991 Gulf War.
He also molested his daughters outside of the home when they were on vacation from school.
After the sentencing, his daughters said it was only just and fitting that their father should spend most of the rest of his life in prison.
They said he had made their lives a misery, taken away all their self-respect and self-confidence, and left them hurt and helpless.
"He is not a father, but a monster in the guise of a father. He's simply horrible," one of the young women told reporters at the courthouse yesterday.
"He murdered innocent souls, not one and not two. I can't say that there is satisfaction over the sentence, because he can never be [truly] punished for what he did," said her sister.
"Unfortunately, we are his daughters. It's good that he has been given such a long sentence, because when other girls hear or read about this case, it should give them the courage to complain about their father, uncle, neighbor, or whoever else," said the youngest.
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/11/27/News/News.38847.html
