" The only "treatment" this child abuser should get is the death penalty. TWICE he has done this! (and maybe more) "

" s*xoffenderissues.blogspot.com

First, let me get this out. I am totally against ANY form of abuse to any human being. And I believe anyone who murders another human being should be in prison for the rest of their life (until they die). I do not believe in the death penalty for anyone. Also, I believe that once a person has been in and out of prison and has served their probation and parole, done everything required of them, and what was signed on the "contract" when they took the plea, none of this should be required of them, none of it. The state cannot tear up a contract like this, which they are basically doing, it's unconstitutional. Many people, if they had known they would be faced with all this, they would have NOT taken a plea deal. And the courts are very aware of this and this is why they made it retroactive; thus violating ex-post facto laws! They should be allowed to get on with their life as if nothing happened. I'm not saying for it to be removed from their record, but, the crime should be removed from public view and background checks, they should not have any more restrictions, shaming, etc. If they commit another crime, then they face a lot more punishment, like everything else is treated.

When are we going to move away from being "TOUGH ON CRIME" and move to being "SMART ON CRIME?" If you locked every single s*x offender up, at this moment, or k*lled every one of them, do you think the problem is over? No, more will follow.

I've heard many people say "If these laws protect one child, then they are worth it!" And at the same time, if millions are t0rtured, it's ok. Offenders are losing their homes, jobs, families, and children and cannot find new jobs or homes due to the insanity of these laws. The families are also made into outcasts for associating with or being related to an ex-offender and their own children are harassed and bullied at schools due to a family member being an ex-offender.

I know these laws are a sensitive issue, but as all issues, they must be discussed and we must come up with a valid solution that will work. The laws, as they exist now, DO NOT WORK! People are always saying they cause unintended consequences. These laws have been on the books for years now, so nothing is unintended anymore. When are we going to set aside fear, hate, rage and anger and come up with a real solution? History has proven that these feelings NEVER get good laws passed but only create bad ones that punish and torture many people. These knee-jerk reactions to a slim number of high-profile crimes, MUST STOP! "

" Its news like this that makes me think parts of the system work. i feel he should be executed vs tax payers feeding and taking care of him for many years. all the money on the slugs adds up in quick time.

Dont have a clue as to why pedophiles exist and they (are not gay), they are mostly heterosexual creeps.

Rapist and anyone beaters should all be sent to some island with sharks around it or life killing turbulent seas. "

" good for the judge i hope he has to be in their at LEAST 20 people who harm children are despicable and revolting in my eyes who cares if he was a vic himself people who use that for an excuse baffle me they think that because they were vics themselves that makes it ok to hurt kids that it somhow justifies the act . and as far as him begging for treatment and being heartbroken ....... thats a joke its easy to get treatment and his heart want broken when he was doing those things to children "

" I hope he enjoys his vacation in the pen "

" I dont know why anyone convicted of sex crime is let out of prison. I think that it should be an automatic life with out parole sentence. what children have to go through after wards is enough and then they have to think about the person coming after them when they get out of prison. It is sickening and the laws should be changed. "

" You know what is so perplexing.? Your laws are completely reactive. If someone has urges for children there is few if any place they can get help before they offend. Few people who do offend will not get any help because admitting to sexual abuse to any counselor the law requires them to turn them in. Those that are so digusted that any person convicted of a sex crime is let out of prison is clueless on who sex offenders are. They are, for the most part, family members. So a child is caught between not wanting to be abused and putting in jail someone for life, that as digusting as that may seem to most of you, the offender is still loved. Therefore, those of you who advocate life sentences are right, these laws will dramatically reduce accusations. However, they will not do little to reduce sex crimes if families are unwilling to put a scarlet letter on a member for life. Anyway, the constitution must have been a bad experiment if it allows sex offenders rights. The first 10 amendments are mostly about the criminal justice system. Who needs due process, the 5th amendment, to be safe in your home. The expost facto clause and double jeapardy clause must have been mistakes. Public safety trumps everything. Soon the only freedom left will be the freedom to leave. Yaaa for America, you broke every sacred concept you supposedly cherish for "public safety" that isn't even creating public safety. "

" As for the bleeding heart liberal "SOI"... go to Vermont if you want to be soft on pediphiles. I do not feel sorry for these creeps. Most say they were victims themselves.. but studies show.. that is not true... I say... cull the herd... get rid of the outcasts completely.. why should we have to pay for them for the next 15 years... and as for treatment.. it doesn't work.. you can't rewire these freaks... they are sick and a cancer on the human race. "

" I am thankful for the laws that are put into place. I now know why my dog barks at the guy down the street, she tries to attack him every chance she gets-even when he drives by. He's on the sex offender list, he has 3rd degree sexual assault. He has children who live with him, no way ever will I ever let my children go to their house and play- EVER because of the list some say is a bad thing. I keep my children on a shorter leash because of the man who lives down the street. And you know what? I dont think its strict enough. We never got notification that an animal lived there. The only way I found out was when I looked up our street online. I wish there was signs in his yard, or he had to wear a sign around his neck. Then I would have known from the beginning. Yeah, its better late than never, and thankfully nothing bad happened for me to know. "

" 18-20 years is not enough. What he has done has severely damaged the lives of his victims for the rest of their lives. First offense sexual abuse of any child should be an AUTOMATIC life sentence WITHOUT ANY POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE. These children will never get a parloe from what happened to them. People like SOI seem to care about the perpetrators of these heinous crimes, but don't care at all about the children who are permanently and severely damaged by such people. He says the laws do not work, but what he doesn't understand is that the laws are not in place to treat the pedophiles, but are there to protect the law abiding citizen. One of the primary duties of government is to protect its citizens, but, sadly, this duty is often not carried out. "

" I have lobbied for several years to get Jessica's Law in Wyoming. I think that would help. But it seems that our state officials don't want to bother protecting our children, they are too busy spending our tax dollars on useless things. Child molesters NEVER change, never stop, they have no remorse. Luckily Skavdahl is a good Judge and did what is right, seeing through the BS Gregg was giving him. "

" This is a prime example of why child sexual abusers/petophiles should never be released from prison. The first thing they want to do when being released is to find another child to abuse. If you talk to psychologists they will tell there is no rehabilitating a child abuser. They WILL do it again. So we really do need to think of death penalty or life imprisonment for child abusers and tag them in prison as such so the other prisoners can have their way with them. Castration sounds like the answer but it is not a sexual issue so that wont work. Cutting their arms off may work but is not very humane. The sign in an abusers front yard would be one small step but permanent incarceration is the answer. NEVER RELEASE A CONVICTED CHILD MOLESTER!! NEVER!! ONCE AN ABUSER ALWAYS AN ABUSER. "

" I'd have to say this guy is lucky to be going to prison....if it had been my child he had molested, he wouldn't have that chance! "

" Why do we punish ourselves by giving out life sentences?

You and I will be paying to house him, cloth him, feed him, see to his medical needs, educate him and entertain him for the rest of our lives through our taxes.

Don't we have better uses for this giant amount of tax dollars we'll spend over time? Couldn't the schools use the money? Couldn't the elder care system use the money? Couldn't the roads use the money?

Every penny paid to support these types of criminals has zero return to the tax payers. It is completely wasted.

If someone must be removed forever from society because they are a danger to its citizens, wouldn't it be better for everyone to simply execute that offending party straight away?

This self inflicted punishment is senseless. "

" Now they need to give Meacham down in Rawlins the same sentence. Round up all the pervert child molesters out there, and grind them up to make ethanol out of them. "

" TCP is right. What ever happened to that city cop down there in Rawllins who is on 'medical retirement' at 40, after the city confessed to his raping a 14 year-old girl in his patrol car? Did they ever even get around to arresting him? The taxpayers have already paid out a big settlement on that one. That guy should be working it off, making license plates. Or grind him up for ethanol too. Carbon is Carbon. "

" This is a man with a beating heart, and there are far better uses of his time (and our money) than wasting away in some prison. For example, he could be used to dig up un-exploded mines in Bosnia, so that the rural areas can be re-developed for commercial investment. Or he could be used for deep space flight experiments. Or fixing live power lines in the rain. There are all sorts of one-time uses I can think of, for a person on their way out. Why not put the guy to use? "

" Have a Heart, You are wrong. This is not a man, this is a dangerous animal and like an animal for the good of all, to include himself, he should be put down. To do otherwise is cruel and a waste of public resources. "

" I was molested by my own step father, mother found out and stayed married to him. The expression "it starts at home" is very true. We as parents need to let our children know, if your parents won't listen, keep talking till you find someone that will. Any sex offender that has more then one conviction should be castrated or death sentence. We as tax payers shouldn't have to support their ass! Take all prisoners and take em to Iraq train em and let em fight for their country. It would be about the only good deed they have done. "

" What's that? It's illegal to molest kids? Someone should tell the Rawlins Police Department. Their officer who committed statutory rape in his patrol car, with a 14-year-old girl, was given 'medical retirement' at age 40. Then again, she was kind of a 'party girl' according to the Department. Sounds like a party all right. A party of predators and child molesters in uniform down there. "

" Asking the Police Chief of Rawlins to break up his own child porn ring is like asking a crack dealer to do the right thing and stop dealing. It's going to take a little more forceful intervention than that. "

" Isn't this guy being sentenced to the priesthood to join the others who know what to do with young boys?

After all once you find god in your jail cell you are released and returned to prey. "

" Hey, SOI...let me tell you about the effects of a sex offender. My life completely fell apart. I became withdrawn. I was a very negative, unsympathetic and unfeeling person. I've almost committed suiced, twice. I've been through drug addictiion, rehab and depression. Every day is a battle to stay above all that. Thanks be to God, for without him I would still be in a deep dark pit. But the two things I can NEVER get rid of...are the images in my mind's eye or the feeling of what that man did to me. THAT IS LIFE LONG! There are days when despair is so strong, it could pull me back down in that pit if I didn't have God and Jesus Christ. Since I have to endure that battle for the rest of my life...I feel all sex offenders should have to endure sex offender registries and being osterzised for the rest of their lives. If that means their families have to go thru it too, then maybe those family members should re-evaluate the company they keep. By the way, there is no such thing as an 'ex-offender' and there is no such thing as rehabilitation for pedophilia. I feel any Judge or organization or person that gives light sentencing or who fights for the rights of a sex offender is part of the brotherhood/sisterhood of sex offenders. Otherwise, why would you care about somebody that hurts children? "

" Here is a cheep way to solve this problem.. One mabey two bullets and let the child he molested shoot him... "

" Two words: GENERAL POPULATION "

" Sounds like this guy is the real deal. A bona fide child-molesting waste of oxygen. Won't be long, the Rawlins Police Department will be looking to hire him. He can run the 'ride-along' program down there with Officer Meacham. The taxpayers will cover the criminal restitution and civil settlements, and any other uniformed sex-offender fallout. Then the guy can go on 'medical retirement' at age 40, for some additional public benefits. You Go, RPD. "

" Big Horn Basin you have the right idea, put them in general population to live with other imates, instead of in a prison section with other child sex offenders where they can enjoy the fantacies of others stories and compare notes for when they get released. So that they can make their next victim more enjoyable for them and more hazadorous for the victim.

Have a Heart.. I like some of your ideas and have a few ideas of my own.

Kathi I like your idea also, lets send them to Iraq, Iran, or most any of the countries in the middle East. As it would only take one time for them to committ a sex crime, especially against a child, and they would be taken care of properly for the most part. No money would be spent on supporting them.

Me thinks that the idea of casteration for males that commite a sex crime the second time would be approperate, but the question does arise what should be done for a woman that committs a sex crime again. "