I feel the same. The people who have hurt me during my life never faced any consequences and that is what pains me the most. No one cared enough about me to do anything and no one cared about those they would hurt in the future either. I think harsh sentencing is a reason for people to not take action. We also have a…

Oh my God. Double fuck off.

Go fuck yourself with a rusty fork, please.

Lol stop

Yeah, but that was a really trivial way to express what his son is going through, and pretty insensitive to the victim. The father didn’t say anything about what the victim must be going through. It’s like she doesn’t even exist in his mind.

It is, however, entirely ridiculous to bring up said trauma as a reason to lighten his sentence, which was the context of the letter.

Actually in talking about Brock’s supposed “PTSD” when he is clearly a rapist, Brock’s dad was completely out of line. There are ways of pleading for his son that don’t either diminish the crime or is insulting to the victim. His dad failed at this. I could easily write an impassioned letter to the judge on behalf of…

Everybody is aware of what he meant, which is why people are making fun of his statements. He’s claiming that his son has fucking PTSD because he sexually assaulted someone and got caught for it. It’s fucking ridiculous, infuriating, and completely lacking in any self-awareness. His father’s gross statements deserve…

I almost feel guilty about how little I disapprove of this. The curse of being a bleeding-heart liberal and not a college athlete rapist, I guess.

It’s sorta like how you keep ragging on your kid’s music taste and then one day that idiot’s blabbing about how rainbows are miracles when you know for goddamn sure that just two years ago he did a science project on light refraction and knows goddamn well what a rainbow is.

The problem I’m having here is that child molesters in particular get access to child victims by getting involved in their lives/the lives of their families and becoming trusted members of the community. Child molesters are often very patient at grooming children and their families and can spend months and years…

People expect and often demand outrage about this, and if you’re not outraged, you’re condining it which simply isn’t true. Feeling better is the goal of recovering from this stuff, no? It sounds like you have come to a place of forgiveness — not excusing, not condoning, not forgetting, but actual forgiveness. It’s…

Right. If we feel people can’t be in society safely, we should keep them in jail. Releasing them but with so many limits on where they can live and work and everything else seems like the worst of both worlds — potential victims aren’t any safer, while offenders who want to rejoin society can't.

You seem like a really great person and I wish I could know you in real life (not in a creepy way, you just seem very compassionate, articulate and well-balanced). I wish the internet comments sections were filled with more people like you.

It’s a lot easier to let go and move on when your situation was taken seriously. I wonder if all the anger at child abusers is partly because so many abusers are never held accountable, so so many abused are not validated.

Yeah- that seems a little incongruous!

I’m conflicted too. However, I firmly believe that if you tell people that they are completely unredeemable, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and they will decide that being a pervert is their unwavering identity. That's pretty dangerous.

I would feel upset that he could look at my child on the regular and insert my kid into his gross fantasies.

I would feel upset that he could look at my child on the regular and insert my kid into his gross fantasies.

Some other country’s done it and shown success?