The predators are ages 12 and 13. What kind of monster children do something like this. An 11 year old girl was sexually assaulted and sodomized in her own backyard in Woodbridge. The boys are in the juvenile detention home.
So we have two rapists on our hands, getting an early start in life. The girl will probably be scarred for life and the boys? What does a society do with boys who are sexual predators at ages 12 and 13? Do we imprison them? They can’t go into a general population prison. They are too young. Are there juvenile prisons for young sexual predators? There is no cure for being a sexual predator.
This case must be watched carefully. A juvenile sexual predator was turned loose back into the community in 1978. The people of Prince William County will not tolerate that reoccurring. No one’s children, male or female, are safe with little sickos like this loose in society. People will probably know who the boys are. Who was absent today from Rippon Middle would be a good place to start the search.
Do these boys get anonymity? Probably, until the kids figure out who they are. Should they get anonymity? Oh hell no! Their names should be posted everywhere–just like Cujo! A community needs to know if it has mad dogs on the loose.
[I think rapists are mad dogs.]
I vote for trying them as adults.
If not, hopefully they can be detained past age 18 as sexually violent predators. We have special facilities in Virginia where we hold SVPs indefinitely – until they’re deemed no longer to be a SVP. You don’t hear much about them; I know about them only because I served on a jury that kept a guy in one (for a crime he committed 20 years or so ago) and afterwards I decided to look it up on the Internet and figure out what the real-world effect was of our jury classifying the guy as a SVP.
I hope they are tried as a adults and if convicted, sentenced to some special facility for people like them. I don’t think you put them in the general population. They do have a condition that usually doesn’t cure.
The case in 1978 had a perp age 16 who was also ED, somewhat mentally retarded (forget political correctness) and who was a sexual predator. He was turned back into the community to rape or attempt to rape more little girls. The judge should have gone to jail.
The judge and attorneys were very careful not to let us know that theb real-world effect of our verdict was indefinite detention for the guy. They screened out jurors who had any experience with sex cases or with the law. They exhorted us not to do any type of research whatsoever after the case started, until it was over. In fact, most of us in the jury room had no idea what they were going to do with the guy after we found him guilty of being an SPV. But the answer is, indefinite detention.
Here’s some info – http://www.govppa.org/newsletter/07_march/index_files/Page538.htm
I had no idea all this happened or could happen.
Moon, I know that back in the 70’s there was not a general understanding of what pedophilia was. It was looked at by some judges/juries as if the child abuse was just some uninhibited crazy act brought on by drug use or retardation or so forth. These days society has a clearer view of what this is, and the likelihood a predator will reoffend.
I know that in Virginia, we err on the side of keep predators detained. Indefinitely.
I was rather involved at the time and I got a number of phone calls from people who worked with pedophiles who clearly stated it wasn’t a condition that could be treated. So I guess the nurses etc knew but the politicans and judges did not know. I still become furious when I think about the entire situation. The perp got serveral other children before he was finally put away somewhere. I have no idea what became of him. I just hope he isn’t loose.