WTF - Into the Mind of a Sex Offender
Usually, my WTF posts are humorous, but there is nothing humorous here. This is scary. There is a story on CNN about a sex offender who was recently charged with the abduction or an 8 year old girl and her 9 year old brother, who is feared dead. Apparently, he was first convicted when he was 16 of raping a 14 year old boy at gunpoint. Apparently, when this guy got out of prison, he started a blog. This story on CNN recounts some of the posts he made to his blog. It's pretty interesting and very disturbing. You should click the link to read the full story, but here are just a couple of quotes:
From his first entry, on January 4, 2004, to his last, on May 13, 2005, Duncan's writings reveal a conflicted man battling personal "demons" and the stigma of a teenage rape conviction.
In 1980, at age 16, Duncan received a 20-year sentence for raping a 14-year-old boy at gunpoint in Washington state.
Throughout the 17 months he kept his blog, Duncan displays intense concern for himself whenever a child is reported missing, fearing police will automatically come calling because he is on the offender registry.
In fact, his first entry finds him trying to reconstruct what he did on a particular day in the past because he just learned a 5-year-old girl had gone missing 200 miles away on that day.
In his own history, he wrote, "I was molested so often and by so many different people that, up until the time of my offense, I actually thought it was normal and that everybody did it."
Although he denied he is a pedophile, Duncan defended pedophilia.
"I learned that most people who prey on children have discovered that adult-child sexual relations are not in and of itself a bad thing, and does not in and of itself cause harm to the child (assuming no physical injury has been inflicted)," he wrote.
"You may scoff at this saying of course they think that, that is what makes them sick. But, by scoffing, you are only perpetuating the problem by rejecting a rational [sic] that is based on solid fact."
Yikes. Makes U wonder how people who've been in prison for the majority of their lives have been changed or conditioned by their imprisonment. Obviously this man was nowhere near being in his right mind. Shouldn't he have been analyzed before his release? Shouldn't he have been placed in some kind of therapy or institution? As much as I hate to think of our tax dollars going to further help criminals more than we already do, maybe if some kind of action was taken upon this man's release, these childrens' abductions could have been avoided. I mean, just from some of the things he wrote in his blog, it's obvious he needs some kind of help and that he's likely to victimize someone else. I wonder if anyone actually read his blog and how it made them feel or what it made them think. Geez. I don't know what the answers are. I just read shit like this and wonder ...
"What the f*ck?!?!"
From his first entry, on January 4, 2004, to his last, on May 13, 2005, Duncan's writings reveal a conflicted man battling personal "demons" and the stigma of a teenage rape conviction.
In 1980, at age 16, Duncan received a 20-year sentence for raping a 14-year-old boy at gunpoint in Washington state.
Throughout the 17 months he kept his blog, Duncan displays intense concern for himself whenever a child is reported missing, fearing police will automatically come calling because he is on the offender registry.
In fact, his first entry finds him trying to reconstruct what he did on a particular day in the past because he just learned a 5-year-old girl had gone missing 200 miles away on that day.
In his own history, he wrote, "I was molested so often and by so many different people that, up until the time of my offense, I actually thought it was normal and that everybody did it."
Although he denied he is a pedophile, Duncan defended pedophilia.
"I learned that most people who prey on children have discovered that adult-child sexual relations are not in and of itself a bad thing, and does not in and of itself cause harm to the child (assuming no physical injury has been inflicted)," he wrote.
"You may scoff at this saying of course they think that, that is what makes them sick. But, by scoffing, you are only perpetuating the problem by rejecting a rational [sic] that is based on solid fact."
Yikes. Makes U wonder how people who've been in prison for the majority of their lives have been changed or conditioned by their imprisonment. Obviously this man was nowhere near being in his right mind. Shouldn't he have been analyzed before his release? Shouldn't he have been placed in some kind of therapy or institution? As much as I hate to think of our tax dollars going to further help criminals more than we already do, maybe if some kind of action was taken upon this man's release, these childrens' abductions could have been avoided. I mean, just from some of the things he wrote in his blog, it's obvious he needs some kind of help and that he's likely to victimize someone else. I wonder if anyone actually read his blog and how it made them feel or what it made them think. Geez. I don't know what the answers are. I just read shit like this and wonder ...
"What the f*ck?!?!"
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10:08 AM
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