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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course I have empathy for him. He’s clearly in a bad state with severe, untreated mental illness + drug addiction. But with those things he’s not safe to be on the street and we (the general public) aren’t safe with him being on the street. He also committed a crime, and it doesn’t matter if you’re out of your mind on drugs or alcohol or off your meds when you commit a crime - there are legal consequences including jail/prison time. After his sentence he should, IDEALLY, be committed for a period of time. But we don’t have the facilities for that … so he’ll probably serve 6 months or whatever for assault and then be back on the streets like nothing ever happened. [/quote]

STOP leaving out the sex crimes. HE’S A SEX CRIMINAL AGAINST KIDS.  This goes beyond him beating the two teachers. And you know it. You are sick. [/quote]

I don’t understand the insulting of people who are on the same side as you, but ok. He needs consequences, I said as much. After the consequences he needs real help, mental health commitment + drug rehab. He probably won’t be able to live independently ever. Drug abuse changes your mental state permanently. So they need to have a plan for that or else he’s going to end up on the street offending again. Then we end up with the feel bad stories about “guy with severe untreated schizophrenia and a drug problem got arrested and thrown in jail for whatever, where he was mistreated by guards or other inmates and died as a result” and then we start the soft on crime nonsense which makes us all worse off. [/quote]

Because you’re an incredible apologist and are glossing over the sex crime aspect. A repeated sex offender. For other people who are child sex abusers, ask yourself to you have empathy for them, do you say “they can’t help it”, etc., because this attitude is an insult to the millions is sex abuse victims. He needs intense sex offender therapy and possibly to never be on the streets.

The lead shouldn’t be he was on drugs, or that he has mental health issues, the lead is that he is well known, repeated child sex abuser (not just this week). Wake up. I want you to be safe, I want everyone to be safe. [/quote]

I think that’s the difference. I’m too cynical. It doesn’t matter in the eyes of … basically everyone involved in the DC criminal Justice system, what his crimes were. Sex offenses, assault, being drugged out of mind, none of it seems to make a difference. The only offense that seems to really lock people up vs. serve a short sentence at most and then be released, is literal murder. They don’t give a s*** about anything else. I doubt he even hits the sex offender registry for this. The APS kid who filmed himself jumping out of the bushes and forcibly groping random women won’t end up on the registry, and that was in Virginia! And even then being on the registry only makes a difference if you’re trying to better your life and play by the rules, which a homeless drug addicted vagrant with serious mental illness is not. The only thing is to compel him to treatment after he serves a prison sentence. And the treatment would have to be lifelong because, again, people with his profile can’t support themselves.  And I’m honestly not even clear if we can force people into treatment. It sounded like in the past he was supposed to get treatment but was non-compliant and then the system lost track of him. [/quote]

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