“Access to sex workers”
A dangerous sex offender has been granted freedom from a West Australian prison and will be able to visit sex workers in a bid to reduce his risk of reoffending.
Edward William Latimer, 61, has a criminal record dating back to his teenage years and has spent most of his adult life in prison for offences including sexual assaults and wilful exposure.
So let’s make women his safety valve. What could go wrong?
WA supreme court justice Anthony Derrick said in his decision handed down on Tuesday that while Latimer remained a serious danger to the community, the risk could be managed in the community.
“There are adequate safeguards contained in the supervision order conditions to ensure that if the respondent begins to regress this will be quickly noticed by those responsible for his supervision and … he will [be] brought back before the court,” he said.
“Access to sex workers will not of itself resolve the issue of the respondent’s ability to manage his sexual urges … [but] the option for the respondent to engage in regular, albeit infrequent, sexual contact should serve as an additional protective factor.”
Or he could get a doll or a pound of raw liver or a hole in the ground. Women are not objects that dangerous sex offenders need access to to keep from exploding. Women are not a public utility.
The judge sounds like he has been reading too much Jordan Peterson.
Where do I go if I have let’s say… an uncontrollable urge to assault people? Clearly the judge in my case needs to overturn anything barring my entry to martial arts tournaments, even though I was barred entirely because of my savagery in the ring. It’s my right to have access to potential victims!
Cut off his dick, that should significantly reduce the risk of reoffending.
It stuns me that in 2019, getting on for 50 years since the FBI (and others) produced the seminal works on sexual violence, identifying the motivations of men who rape and assault, and we still come across judges, parole officers, and even some forensic psychologists, who persist in believing that it is all and only about some dude satisfying his sex drive. If that was the case, we could eliminate rape by buying each dude a fleshlight. Much cheaper than incarceration,
Lets have a moment of silence for the ‘sex workers’ who get to be so freely empowered and self-actualized that they have to deal with this monster.
On checking, not QUITE as scary as the headline.
If he’s alcohol fueled, he’ll be back in lockup in a few weeks or months if the ‘supervision’ is more than an empty gesture.
And, at least:
I wish I thought that mattered. It isn’t whether they understand consent that makes a difference (well, it does have a role); it’s whether they care. And that entails seeing women as fully human and not objects.
Doesn’t matter how many conditions they put on him. If people can’t be watched around the clock when they are in an actual prison – and we know that’s true because they do seem to be able to take drugs and fashion weapons and kill themselves and each each other in those places – then this guy can’t be prevented from attacking women while he’s out. But hey, gotta give the guy a chance. If he rapes someone, well, we can always lock him back up. No harm done, right?