Wouldnt. if it was an active pedophile I would do my best to keep him/her incarcerated and under medical eval the rest of their natural lives.

No, but I'd make sure they were locked up, and got extensive and long term psychiatric treatment.

I would have to be honest and say yes. Anyone that harms children does not allow to breathe the same air as we do

No I would not. That is a human being clearly at the mercy of really terrible compulsions. His life must be hell already. Nobody would do that to a child unless they truly could not stop themselves from doing it. I wish there were better resources for pedophiles so they could come to grips with their compulsions instead of hiding and then succumbing to them or joining the clergy or the scouts where they become overwhelmed with temptation. I think it's sick and horrble but there is an explanation for everything and there has to be a way of managing pedophilia better than our society is at the moment. It's nothing new and not going away.

No, I would not. That would lower me to their level of an immoral human being and I think that I can resist doing that. That doesn't mean that I would do nothing to ensure that justice is served; it just means that I would not take the law into my own hands. I can also resist being a vigilante. -- edited 2006-02-10 Since a pedophile is a person who is sexually attracted to minors, doesn't jailing them and, even killing them for it, amount to totalitarianism? Being jailed for thoughts? Unless they actually commit a crime (and thinking and being aroused by something isn't a crime in most developed countries), why would we even consider killing them? Doesn't that open a door that justice demands that we keep closed? Do we jail people who envy other people's possessions? Or only if they steal them?

No, however I would proceed to put him on my "Greatest Hits!" KO!

No, I am not a killer. Take them to the Zoo and let the Gorillas handle him for awhile ... let him know how it feels In severe circumstances, multi offenders etc ... definately need harsher punishment. lock the sicko's up to recieve much treatment ... before, or if ... they are released back into the community.

not unless i knew the exact details of the case, they admitted to it and were not remorseful or it involved my family

Locked up and chemical castration as well as hormones to get rid of any sex drive whatsoever.

No, but I would do everything I could to make them miserable. Unless they hurt my children. There is no telling what I would do.

No, killing is wrong but...chop, chop... I think I would like to see all pedophiles castrated. Not sure about the method- it might be possible by medication or otherwise surgically. This will be the cheapest solution for taxpayers (why should we have to work and pay taxes to service a child abuser?) and pedophiles DO get released from prison after they did their service. They will still be a danger to our children and society because their unhealthy sexual needs won't go away.

I wouldnt kill them...maybe maim them to where they couldnt hurt another child.

Kill?...No. Castrate?...Maybe! ...or maybe I would tie his penis to a barn with thick wire, set the barn on fire, give him a rusty knife, and let him choose his own fate.

Nope, I leave it up to God to handle such things.

No, two wrongs don't make a right, they just make two wrongs. I'll probably be downrated for saying this, but I think we need to make the distinction here between someone who simply bears an attraction to children but does not act on it and someone who acts on their attraction to children or takes out their sexual frustration on them. I don't necessarily wish pedophiles any ill will just for being pedophiles, as I imagine that their attraction is probably something rooted deeply in their childhood or adolescence that they cannot help. I mean, when my cat pees on the couch it upsets and even though I can't help but feel that I want to hurt her, I don't act on my feeling. Does that make me an animal abuser? (Sorry for the bad analogy, you're welcome to come up with a better one) I do however think that *child molesters* and *child rapists* deserve severe punishments to the greatest extent that the law will allow.

No they arn't worth me going to jail for. If I have the chance to kill them I have the chance to have them arrested.

Do they act on it? If so, where's the gun?

no because I would not lower myself that their level

Depends if it was my kid or not

My instinct would be to kill someone that harmed a child of mine (if I had one) but there is always chemical sterilization and incarceration. Or better yet, castration. But then they are still free to do harm with their hands....

As a Christian, I would say no. As a father of three small children, I would say, let me think about it. If I caught someone with one of my kids, I would probably unintentionally kill them - I doubt I would be able to control my rage.

No, I would rather that person be alive to feel the guilt and all the horrible feelings I would hope they have. If you kill them that would put them out of their misery, and I feel would be too good for them. Also, I have had the chance and have not. I feel I have much more control over my decisions than that of a pedophile, and choose the much, much higher ground.

No, of course not. Would you kill a gay person if you had the chance? Would you kill a heterosexual if you had the chance? Would you kill a person for having shoesize 36 if you had the chance? NOBODY chooses who he/she is attracted too, it's build into your system just like your shoesize. Kill someone before ANY crime has been committed is revolting. Pedophiles CAN turn into child rapists, just as hetero's can turn into adult rapists. "Come on lets kill all hetero's, to prevent rape from ever happening..." Of course, it a tottaly different ball game if your definition of a pedophile is the same as a childrapist. If someone decides to cross that line close to me, I would go to jail.

Of course not! And I wouldn't report him (don't think ther're any she pedos) either. In our vocab (for my sibs and I), we call them, "MJ's homies." :p

No. Why lower yourself for someone like that?

If it was my child they harmed then yes, i would give it a damn good go. My cousins were harmed by one for a period of 27 years and all he got in prison was 3 years B*****D

I heard the father of a little girl who was viciously raped and thrown into a dam and drowned asked the same question. When asked if he would have killed the pedophile if he had the chance, his reply was ... 'the only thing stopping me from killing this man was the fact that I couldn't find him!' I know we should not judge - but I fully understood the sentiments of this father.

No. I’m not a murderer. Even though the laws may never seem severe enough, we must keep working to rid ourselves of these predators, especially repeat offenders. We must also continue to research the psychological and mental reasons why pedophiles prey on children. Most importantly must make our children safe. It that means if there are no other options, leaving them in for life, I think many people would accept that.

Quite possibly, particularly as the father of two very youg girls. What i would more likely want to do, is slowly cut off their di*k and balls with a very blunt knife causing them great pain and distress. Of course no pain killers or anasthetics would be allowed.

I would not kill them,that would be way too good for them.I like MOTOARENA's answer about the gorillas...lol...but also,to add,I think after a 3rd offence or just 1 'violent' offence,they should be castrated and thier arms should be chopped off,then released back into society.I think it would be a living hell for them as long as they had those urges still,they could do nothing about it anyways.Saves money on therapy and/or prison too.

No, I don't want to kill anybody. My reaction depends entirely on the circumtances. If some fat, sweaty middle-aged creep rapes and beats up a poor defenceless adolescent girl, then I think he deserves jail time and serious psycho-therapy, not to mention the human equivalent of 'sanctions'. But, legally (at least where I am), an 18 year-old who has consensual sex with a fourteen year-old is considered a pedophile. In such a case, as long as both are happy, it's best just to leave all well alone.

That would be to easy on them -

I want to say no. It's easy to say that when you ask in a vague, hypothetical forum like this. However, my truth is that if I witnessed the abuse take place, I'm not sure if I could maintain control... I don't know what I would do in a situation like that.

No, unless it was my own child who had been violated. But I must admit that I would be very satisfied sending a pedophile to prison, knowing that even among murderers and thieves child abuse is unforgivable, and they are great at showing their contempt for those who would hurt a child.

I will be honest with you and say Yes.

No, actually, I wouldn't. I have a very specific pedophile in mind. If I were to kill him, he'd be out of his misery. He has gout and other problems from excessive drinking throughout his life. I'd rather send him a lifetime supply of beer.

never there are things far more worse than death eg. old chinese tortures i think would be better punishment than death

No one has the right to murder, seems to defeat the purpose to respond to evil with evil. Both are wrong, both are evil. In the end the good, the just, and the right must prevail, otherwise at the end of the day it's evil fighting evil. Then I would have to wonder what the point of fighting for the good would be. It's hipocritical justice and we must not let the bad seeds in life take control of all that is good or else there's nothing worth fighting for in the first place.

Kill? How fun is killing? I'd really rather not, no matter how much he deserves it. I would certainly teach him a lesson though.

No i wouldnt be able to kill him although i think i'd try if he did anythin to sum1 i loved eg, a family member or friend. I dont think theres anything lower on the earth then a pedophile and if i came across 1 i wouldnt be able to stop myself from beatin the crap outa them

John Wayne Gacy Jr., Jeffrey Dahmer, and some others I might

I wouldn't kill them, I'd castrate them. I think that is the most appropriate punishment. It's what they should do to all proven repeat offenders!

Yes.

You bet and I wouldn't even bother hiding what I did. In fact I would kill them the way the Celts used to: eyes gauged out; tounge, nose, ears, and privates removed; and disembowled with the body buried face down in a bog with hands and feet hog tied so they can't find their way to the Other Side. Hell of a lot more fitting than the cushie treatment our penal system gives them. And I wouldn't feel like I had stooped to their level. I would see it as protecting their future victems and getting justice for the one's they've already harmed. Here's an interesting fact they've tried both chemical and medical castration on pedophiles and found that it has very little effect on the urges. They just find another way to cause the same kind of harm. And therapy, especially group, has been shown to increase the level of fantasy to the point where it becomes uncontrolable and more violent. The whole problem is we look at it from a sexual stand point when in reality it has very little to do with sex. It's mostly about gaining power and control over another through destruction. Sex just happens to be the most destuctive. long lasting, and powerful form of control that they can have over another person. They chose children not only for their innoscense, but because they are easier to control and less likely to tell. Especially boys. That's why a lot of them can maintain what appears to be healthy marriages and still attack children. For example John Wayne Geacie was married the whole time he was raping and murdering those boys. This goes the same for people who rape adults. And it's a compulsion that can never be cured. That's why so many of them are repeat offenders.

Killing them wouldn't be punishment for long enough (they would only worry untill it happened) Cutting it off with a rusty old knife might work.

I'd kill him twice if god let me

YES! Without even thinking...Those bastards ruin lives of children and for that, i won't even regret killing them...

Oh yeah, forget the blather, just do it, the world has to be a better place without them.

No, I wouldn't kill...but I would make him a sex change and put him in a mens prison, fresh out of the operation.

Killing them isn't the answer. I would go for a nice chemical castration and then jail for the remainder of their lives so that they may get raped on a daily basis by a guy twice their size. What goes around should come around:)

My first reaction is yes. In the most horrible way I could possibly imagine. But I think alot of people feel that way when the first hear of a child being harmed in this manner. Then, I think Anyone who would do this to a child, cannot possible be in their right mind. There just has to be something wrong in their brain for them to do such a heinous thing. I absolutely think they should be locked up for the rest of their lives or put them all on a island together away from society, so they are never able to get near a child again. I'm not sure that castration of any kind will stop the way they think. If they hurt someone this way once, I think they will again. Same for rapists.

No Death is a release not a punishment, they deserve to suffer. i'd kick his kneecaps off (and i can do it before someone says its impossible)and stop him from walking ever again.

No I do not believe in corpol punishiment. I can not stand the thought of an individual man or woman hurting a child. And in the event that it is proven that person should be locked up. There is evidence that a pedophile can not be reformed. If that is true they should always be locked up and never around a child. I also know there has been men and women faslely accused of this crime and putting to death these people is a crime.

Yes

Yes. I think the answer people give will depend on how close they have ever been involved with a peodifilic situation. As I have been, I would kill them. I don't think that there is any way a person can REALLY change. They can control it, yes, but stop the thoughts/actions altogether? No. And if they are constantly having to fight their sick "urges", then killing them would put them out of their misery.

No, I follow the 10 Commandments.

I think that pedophiles , aka the scum of the earth, should get the same exact done to them as they did to the children. LIke that bastard scum John Couey in FLA He should be repeatedly raped by prison inmates and then buried alive. GGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR They should all rot in hell. The electric chair...is way too humane for those scum.

no, i'd push him off a cliff and let the rocks kill him. (: there's one at my school and he needs to learn to flirt with girls his age. seriously, 4YEARSAPART?!

Give me the address...I wouldnt care if i spent the rest of my life in prison.

with a dull rusty knife I would castrate the *((^&&^#^%^%$..and then from my jailcell I would sell the rights to my story to Hollywood and be out in no time. I would be a bonafide celebrity in my own rite!

I would think about it...Strongly...But no, I wouldn't kill them myself. Too often I see in the news, these offenders are released only to recommit the same crime(s) and often times end up murdering the helpless child...I believe everyone deserves a chance but as I think of my children and my grandchildren and all the faces of those little ones abused, tortured and murdered... this is an area I would draw the line...Lock them away...PERMANENTLY!

i say let parents have their way with them. or do like the romans, put them in front of the courthouse and stone them.

No, but they should be never be set free - ever. Children should "have the right" to be safe. I believe that it our job and responsibility as a society to protect the rights of innocent kids - not the rights of perverts. The wrong that can be done by a pedophile can never be made right again.

No... I think just the left of their life in prisioned is a good idea. Killing them just means doing something worse than what they have done :)

The pedophiles in question in my response are those that have already acted on the thoughts. Pedophiles would kill you just to get to your kids, and you know thats true. Return the favor. Personally, I'd take George Carlin's approach, and I quote... "You take a guy and cover him from head to toe in brown gravy. Then you lock him in a small room with a wolverine who's high on angel dust. Theres one guy who wouldn't be f---in' with too many kids at the bus stop for a while, huh?" I'd add the personal touch of exchanging the wolverine with a few small crocs, and tying his feet to his head. Don't ask me why, it would just be funny to see. There's one guy who wouldn't be messing with anybody AT ALL for the REST OF HIS LIFE. And plus, it's cheaper than the $1900 psychiatric rehab that doesn't actually work anyway. 10 cans of gravy, thats what....$15 if you buy the GOOD stuff? And hell, people along the Nile would pay US to take those damn pests away. Either way, it all works out. We come out under-budget, I feel better inside, you pacifists have a story to rant and protest on (but not actually do anything about), and the guy is permanently off the streets. Everybody wins. You people that protect his rights to fantasize about molesting children are cradling the psychotic desires that will evolve into action under your jurisdiction. You are the same people that have idiotic children and excuses for all your stupid actions. You don't add a negative stigma to negative actions, and thus YOU are responsible for this man's condition. If a mentally retarded boy punched you in the face multiple times, are you just going to walk away with a smile because of conditions? If you are, you better wear a mouthpiece the rest of your life, because he's never going to stop. Punch the little dick back just ONCE, and he won't do it again. You have to show him that BAD BEHAVIOR = PUNISHMENT. That is the same principal pedo's follow. You pacifists allow him to fantasize, and then let him off easy because of the POSSIBILITY that he may have a mental condition. He goes right back to doing what he was doing before, because you have just shown him that he can get away with it. NEGATIVE REPERCUSSIONS ELIMINATE UNSAVORY DELINQUENT BEHAVIOR. Don't believe me? Try it. Your teenage son gets nose-to-nose arguing with you, knock him on his idiotic ass just ONCE. He won't do it again. Physical pain isn't necessary, you don't have to BEAT someone. Just give them a sort of pain, be it physical or psychological, that they will associate with that action from then on. You'll be surprised at the results. Freedom is protected, yes. But as soon as they abuse the freedom, show them what happens. Thats all there is to it. Not an intensely complicated formula. You humiliate me, I humiliate you. Eye for an eye, simple as that.

no, i would chop his cock off!

Nope, I'd reserve that pleasure for his fellow inmates at one of America's Maximum Security Prisons. Most prisoners in American prisons really don't like child rapists and child killers.

There is not much that disgusts me more than someone who preys on children, but I don't think I could kill them. I would love to see them locked away and for repeat offenders, locked away for good. Either that or put them in the general population of one of the worst prisons in the country with "I am a pedophile" tattooed on their forehead. Then they would know how it feels to be bullied and victimized.

no but id hang him up by his penis for a few hours, then get one of the kids mums to cut it off.

Every single one of them...including my uncle.

Yes, without remorse. Pedophiles are not human, they're scum, filth, vile beeings. They don't deserve a quick and painless deatheither, the need to have their eyes poked out with hot iron rods and have thei sexual organs mutilated and them be forcefed the remains.

I would never kill anyone, even if they did it to me or a family member. It's not my place. Locking them up is fine. I dn't think treatment usually works. We lived near a facility for the sex crimes committed in California and had all sorts of different programs for them and none worked. If they stayed on meds and stayed away frm kids they might have a better chance but even surgery didn't work becasue they sometimes still had the desire in their brains, not down below or horomones. Very sad for everyone all around, their family, the victims and their family.

YES! there are too damn many bicycles around here.

If it was any of my children I caught him/her with then theres a possibility I have been through molestation and wouldn't wish for any child to go through that horrible experience

as a survivor i would have to say yes after 33 years of living with this i would have loved to throw the switch on the perv who did this to me,at least then i could sleep at night

Yes, without any hesitation. They steal the life of our children so they only deserve to die. I don't mind having to pass the next 25 years in prison. If someone touch my kids, I would kill him, make him suffer first.... I swear to god that he would suffer....

I choose to exercise my Fifth Ammendment rights reguarding this question. : )

I havea 2yr old and a 6yr old. I would like to have nothing else to do, but to stalk and fuk pedophiles in the @$$ with...hmm lets see how about the end of my Shot Gun. Boom Shot Gun Boom!

yes , i would probably boil them a live or just shoot the in the legs and arms and privates till they died

No, because in essence it would not achieve anything and they don't deserve such an easy escape. I would have them be slaves to the people they have hurt and live in a shit infested hole under the house. If you don't know that touching or having sex with children is wrong then you must be a piece of wood. No court or world needs to inform people of that and if you can't restrain yourself - do the world a favour and knock yourself off so other people's lives aren't afected or ruined.

I would not kill them, but I would yell at them and possibly hurt them. Pedophiles are disgusting.

Yes. Without guilt or pleasure.

Yes. I would not need to even think about it and I would not feel a single pang of guilt.

No, I couldn't, but I'd be happy to castrate them for you if I had the chance.

In a heartbeat! And I would savour every second of it!

Society must deal with them properly before anarchists do!

There's an awesome video where this kid was kidnapped by a pedophile, and he was rescued, and when they were flying the pedophile back to stand trial and the dad was waiting outside the secure perimiter and once the pedophile walked by, the dad shot him in the side of the head. 5 years probation no jail sentence for the dad. Happy ending. Oh and to answer the question yes I would.

No; these people are sick and need treatment.

Sure do you have one handy?

If i had the chance then yes i would. But i think torture would be good first. I think that anyone who is proved to be a pedophile should be killed, so that they cant harm other children if they are let out of prison. Anyone who is a pedophile deserves to die.

I don't think I could personally kill anyone, unless he/she were threatening the life of a loved one. But I think the best punishment for a sex deviate is to suffer the exact thing he/she perpetrates on the victim, and if that includes death, then so be it.

No. It is not our place to punish them - God will do that, and quite well. It is merely our job to keep them away from children.

I wouldn't kill him. I would torture him in the worst way possible.

Part of me wants to say yes, but I know in my heart it is not up to me to judge...God handles that for us. If I happened to see/catch them in the act, and I had the means available...in hand...I might wig out and do it. But, if I knew they had and yet were not at the exact moment, and I had a gun..could I pull the trigger...I'm a dead on shot, but I don't know if I could do it, that cold coldblooded. Freaking Great question for making one think! I've thought and said, "I'd like to line them ALL up and just let go with a fully automatic..." But, would I? Could I? I think only in a true crime of passion sense, caught in the act, not really thinking, more at a reaction level of protection for the child. So it wouldn't be a gun, cause I don't have a current Carry Permit...it would be with whatever was at hand.

I would kill no one, given a free shot at anybody. I am not the judge.

I would not willingly kill anyone for any reason. However, as a martial arts instructor, one of the top concepts that I teach is, "destroy your attacker's ability to continue attacking" ... use your imagination to guess what I WOULD do ...

What's worse, being a pedophile or a murderer? That's a NO!

No let them suffer with jail etc

it was an accident though

No way. Killing is wrong no matter what kind of predicament you're in. It never was right and it never will be. The people in jail might find a way to escape from man kind...but they will NEVER escape God. EVER! You can assume that's a no. :]