EB, I agree it is not curable in the sense that a pedophile will never stop being attracted to children. But I think it is probably possible to help them not act on their desire. Alcoholics will always want to drink, but it's possible with help to keep them sober. The problem is that it's such a stigma that no one who has that ''orientation'' will go out and ask for help. There's no way to know who needs help until they commit a crime and then it's too late.
Pretty much what i mean. The thing is, sure the alchoolic usually don't hurt anybody but himself(that is, if he does not drink and drive or get violent because of his drunkness) and the pedophile does make victims. But the reality is, people stigmat this so badly because of the gesture itself, than it became "normal" for society to say "kill them, beat them, torture them" when in fact, it is just another horrible crime among others.
Why would a pedophile deserve to be beaten and rape in prison more than a sicko who killed people(those are usually left alone)? The kids are mark for life sure, but the sicko's victim are plain old dead, they can't live anymore, there life was taken from them. To be both crime are horrible and deserve punishment.
So if he was sick and needing treatment why wasn't he getting it? How can you not know having sex with an 11 year old is not right? I think maybe the beating and arrest gave him the motivation to seek some kind of treatment (if there is any effective treatment for pedophilia besides jail), but I agree with deboner- pedophilia is not a curable disorder. "Treatment" might consist of castration- the way to eliminate the urge is to eliminate the source of it. I would suggest you study this a little more, because your post is truly controversial.
Why he is not getting it? Same reason as every criminal... And yes he did knew out, but why some people who got troath cancer keep on smoking, or why some people with heart or liver problems keep drinking? Because they can't control it. Not saying this guy should be on the street, fucking NO !, but he should be put in a mental institute for pedophile(yes, a special place to treat those people) where he would be locked and could not hurt anybody. Then at release he would need to be monitored by one of those bracelet, for how long they judge it. Of course im all for protecting the children and making sure those kind of people never hurt them again, but i think there is more human ways to do it. And well if there is really a way to completely remove the sexual tendencies by surgical means, on recidivist i would say then proceed...
And as i said, im not saying the beating was not justify, and i would had probably do the same thing, im just saying people going all "gloryfying" it and such is not the way to stop the violence in the world.
Look at this conflick in ukraine, i don't even understand why this conflict exist, and before te plane was shot down i was thinking of this as some kind of joke war... A war with no purpose and completely dumb. Now a plane with over 300 innocent people in it died for no good reason... just people in vacations or business trip, people that had nothing to do with this. Do you think the guy that fired the missile really feel regret? Maybe, but i doubt it... To me that person is more a monster than any pedophile in the world...
In the musulman countries, family KILL there sibling for such stupid reasons as "she wanted to marry the wrong guy" or crap like that. Look at this article about a women that was gang raped because she was having sex with a married man, the guy was beaten and thrown excrement at... The sad thing is those people probably tough they did the right thing... thats how our world is fucked up ladies and gentlemen...
I think violence should only happen in the ring, for competition between consentual adults. For the rest, lets just say Martin Luthor King said it best...