Most societies place too much emphasis on punishment in cases of crime. The focus really should be on ensuring everything reasonable is done to help the victims, and rehabilitation for the guilty party. No enlightened society would make revenge the basis of their justice system, and it's about time we tried moving beyond the Babylonian "eye for an eye" approach. In cases of rape, the victims should be protected as well as is possible, and the rapist should be treated by a team of psychiatric workers. Really all prisons should look more like psychiatric hospitals than the cesspools we know them as.
Healing is possible.
In this particular instance, the kid's dad being raped to death is NOT doing the child any favors.
Paedophilia is incurable. Those who go so far as to rape children are a serious threat in terms of repeat offence. The alternative is to lock them up end indefinitely. This is extremely expensive and constitutes under law, they argue, a violation of their human rights. Better just to destroy them.
I don't know much about pedophilia; why do you say it's incurable? But we don't even know that this guy is a pedophile. Being attracted to children isn't a prerequisite to raping one, unfortunately
He could have been experiencing a psychotic episode, or who knows what. It's not an entirely unreasonable jump to assume he's a pedophile, but until it's known for sure it's unfair to label him and one and decide that he's incurable. He likely is a threat in terms of repeat offense, but being raped in prison might only make that risk increase (assuming he isn't murdered in there). The most sensible thing to do would be to treat him as a psychiatric patient and make that slow, hopeful progress toward legitimate rehabilitation.
Punishment isn't 'left' to anyone inside prison. If it happens people simply have no sympathy.
Well, sympathy is always a worthwhile practice. Everyone has their cross to bear, and if we demonize people for their issues they are that much less likely to overcome them. It's very difficult to care about the people that commit horrific offenses such as these, but that makes it all the more worthwhile to do. We don't want to think this way for obvious reasons, but that could have been one of us.
There but for the grace of God go I.
