What do you believe is a just punishment for child molesters?

Cut the penis off

tie them to a pole in the middle of nowhere and only give the victim's family the location.

Life in prison with No possiblity of parole !! They ruined a child or childrens life and the same should be done to them ! The low down creeps

Life in prison... with 20 foot walls around the jail and no - I repeat NO - luxury features. No TV, etc...

As a victim of abuse, I find the harsh punishments listed to be a bit over the top.

But then I got to spend time in group therapy and you get to hear the other-side of the story. Unfortunately child abuse (all kinds) is a 'family tradition' that is passed down from generation to generation.

Chances are fairly high that a child molester was molested themselves when they were a child.

So your application of these 'punishments' could be used preemptively on children who were abused, thus by passing their chance to pass it on.

If you are against that then you really need to reconsider your position. You are punishing people for being sick.

Might as well beat a cancer victim, or waterboard a person with depression. Such treatment does NOTHING to cure or treat the underlying causes, and the victim of the disease will continue to be sick.

Yeah I know, what they did to the child hurts the child... well that child will stand a fairly high chance of growing up to do the same thing, then you will all want to castrate him, beat him, stuff a pole up is arse, imprisonment, and do all manner of inhumane stuff.

I'd say jail but thats no cure for these sicko's..they should be punished severly and the removal of the genitals sounds like a good idea..but is this still an answer? what about females?
Torture them so they don't wanna think about sex again..thats a start!!

It is interesting how, in any thread that involves pedophilia or child molestation, a whole host of people appear trying to outdo each other in thinking up the most gory and painful tortures they can. It really seems to bring out the nasty side of people.

It is interesting, too, how two respondents suggest cutting off the penis. They obviously have not considered the fact that a proportion of pedophiles and child abusers are female. Would they suggest a clitoridectomy? And how about those child molesters who are, themselves, children? Should they be mass raped and tortured as well?

All those who relish the idea of dismemberment and torture should perhaps look to themselves a bit more.

Life in prison...no parole

Time to start working harder on prevention than punishment.

death sentence or life prison. Honestly that is just cruel and sick. who would do such a thing.

Simple: Prison, Death, death penalty, etc. things like that.

Complicated: Rehab

I say Lock up in isolated prison based on that offense only. There's much more you can do with that circumstance in place vs. killing them for being and sex offender or rotting with no help.

Assuming they are male, chopping their penis and testicles off with a relatively blunt knife, all the while the molesterer is not given any drugs to reduce the pain.

Make them suffer !!!

Castration sounds good to me, or the tattooing of CHILD MOLESTER on their forehead or arm, some visible part of their body. Praying on the innocent and defenseless in my eyes is a cowardly act and I really like the idea of castration. Less chance if it occurring if they get no pleasure out of it.

All these answers are making me feel better after answering another question about pedophiles, especially after being informed then that people go overboard on hating pedophiles - BY SOMEONE WITH CHILDREN. Ugh.

I think that life in prison for a child molester is the best punishment - death in some cases.

The weak stomached might wish to skip this.
Wax his armpit hair off (assuming he has any). Then, paper-cut his nut sack and squirt lemon juice on it. Then with a pair of rusty, dull scissors, (slowly) cut open said sack. Pull out the balls (leave them attached) and stir-fry them for a good 5 minutes. Cut of the balls, and force feed them to him. Then, during the Running of the Bulls, have him being pulled around by a bull, with hooks stuck in his nipples.

Cut off the balls, and make his d*ck a nub....so he can never ever ever touch anybody again, and live with the reminder of what he did every single day of his life. Maybe he can come to terms, find peace...and accept his punishment, and become something +.

Gang rape.

Death.

Banishment in an isolated island of the apes.

Physical castration; if that doesnt work, the revival of the guillotine might not be a bad idea.

They should be lowered feet first into a vat of sulfuric acid.

chemical castration

Send 'em to a prisoner farm in Colorado.

Put him in jail with a bunch of big burly men who have kids of their own and love em to pieces. They'll set em straight. They may come out a little bloody, missing limbs, and not remember who they are, but that takes care of the problem, right?

I can't believe our society allows child molestation to be classified as only a misdemeanor! I found out a man I dated (Revered Derrick Shaffer of STL) molested his own 14 year old step-daughter! He served no time! He's still in the pulpit preaching to the youth! And he has the audacity to be counseling people on how to be a good parent and good spouse! WTF?!?! I feel for these children! He should have to sit in a jail cell and have someone 200 lbs bigger do to him what he did to his step-daughter! Sick bastard!

Tattoo child rapist on their forehead and throw them into prison for life, as long as it last. Put them in the general population. No special treatment or isolation.

realizing that someone saw them do it on judgment day!

Here's one key thing most everyone overlooks: Child molesters can be and are FEMALE too. Go to your local sex offender registry database; Search for offenders in your surrounding areas and chances are, some of those will be females (who were BORN females).. everyone has been answering with scenarios/punishments that can only be fit for men. What about the dirty bitches out there? Sure we should castrate the men who molest but what should we do about the women? Too bad we can't sew their vag's shut.

Death

I would answer this, but my husband Freddy is looking over my shoulder and showing me his glove....

I think they should experience exactly what the children they molested experienced....for starters. Happy Wednesday fM! :)

Nail them to a post

They should be molested by giants

sent to the front lines of iraq with no training. with their dick cut off.

to be gangbanged by 3 transvestite dominatrixes

I think a more appropriate question is "what do you think is a good punishment for a person who has children"

have the bastards drawn and quartered..then give 'em a Viking funeral...

after torture..

Ok, ok, I believe each molester should be handed off to the victim's family, bound up in a room and, let them decide what should be done. Which means whatever want to do anything they want to do is totally legal!

I think taking the absolute worst offender and castrating him and publicizing it heavily would create a pretty good deterrent, but interestingly the system won't do that even with the worst one possible.

A lenghty jail sentance and phycological assesment before "rehabilitation". Failing that, I would vote for a so-called "Final Solution".

Release their crime information to the other inmates before they can be transferred for their own safety.

The world is hysterical and irresponsible regarding this issue. Some may be from consensual sex, simply fondling their genitals or sex with a 15/17 year old having a birthday the next day!

This thread is evidence of a good 'ol witch hunt. Scientifically the only ones who are scarred, are those who are forced. The majority of cases (which are found out) the children do not want to press charges - why, because they don't care!

Chemical castration or life without parole in jail.

You want to know what I think send them to countries where they still stone people as punishment and that should make them think twice or the people watching them being stoned think twice before doing such a disgusting thing.

Although is it an unbelievable crime, these molestors have problems and need help. Unfortunatley there is little help that can be offered and rightfully effective for these people so the best punishment is surgically removing was causes this problem. If removing the testicles (or whatever they can do for women) is likely to take away sexual urges, then this would be effective. BUT sexual arrosal is also triggered in the brain, so unless there can be some type of labotomy type thing done(which i haven't heard of) then i guess there is nothing just that can be done. They must be removed from the public obviously so a really long time in prison or mental institution would be the last option. Not to mention for those of u who love a good punishment story to every villan(texans lol )...in most cases...people in jail who aren't molestors will torture pedophiles if they know what they did. I guess alot of them went through similar torment as a child.