Custodial sentences should be very stiff indeed. Paedophiles have been dealt one good card, namely that they are tried for their loathsome offences in courts of law. It takes no great leap of the imagination to conceive of their fate were they to be tried before a jury of parents whose children had been kidnapped or murdered or abused by these creatures. Of course, they would not get a fair trial. It s hard to have sympathy with crimes of this type.
Paedophiles find their victims in places where they know the law is lax or only weakly applied.
They flow to the places where they are most likely to find gratification of their egregious needs. Vigorous laws, firm police action, the following-through of arrests to conviction and stiff sentences for the perpetrators will teach paedophiles something that they can get away with their crimes no longer. Bob Wilde is a freelance writer, teacher, translator, proofreader and report editor who has been living in and associated with Thailand for some 27 years.