• friendlymessage@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    First of all, sorry this happened to you and thank you for your perspective on this.

    There’s a lot of possible middle ways between 13 months and life’s over, though. I’m a strong believer in rehabilitation but there are some necessities, e.g. a sufficient level of remorse which he has not shown as far as I can tell, and basically zero chance of repetition, which to be fair seemingly is the case.

    There are some things in my opinion that you should never be able to do as a convicted child rapist even after rehabilitation which includes being a primary care taker of children and representing your country at the Olympics.

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      3 months ago

      Thank you for pointing this out. As another who believes in rehabilitation, this whole situation made me really uncomfortable. I never wanted to defend the asshole, I just hate the way we view criminals on a large scale.

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      3 months ago

      e.g. a sufficient level of remorse which he has not shown as far as I can tell, and basically zero chance of repetition, which to be fair seemingly is the case.

      It literally is the case: https://time.com/7004041/convicted-rapist-competing-olympics-steven-van-de-velde/

      But most people basically want the return of the death sentence without directly killing someone, they just want to take their living and put them under a bridge.