Goddess,
How true your post rings. I am 51 and have been molested by a man and raped by a young woman in my youth. I protect my daughter as much as is humanly possible. I think one solution is to enroll young girls in self defence classes although it will only help a small percentage if one is saved from the torment it's worth it.

Thankyou for this exposé on your attempts to find the backgound to this disturbing situation.
Maybe a better title for the article would be "Can I get Justice with the the Dept. of Justice?"
We do get the Public Service we deserve.
If the population is apathetic then "they" can do things fairly pathetically.

Most of the population (like myself) would be unaware of the Adult Parole Board's status when it comes to finding the background to it's decisions. The Parole Board do have an onerous, unenviable and reponsible job to do.
Sometimes, the public need to know what information they(Adult Parole Board) were fed prior to making a decision.

Persons with this disturbing criminal history need to be protected from themselves.
More importantly, "we" need to be protected from them.
Justice not only needs to be done but it needs to be seen to be done.
If we haven't got a facility to house these people (compassionately) at the end of their sentence, then we need one where they cannot reproduce their offending behaviour.
Sorry, but after such horrific acts on innocent people, these offenders must surrender their rights to live amongst us.

I wonder how the Justice department's representative (Delphine) would like this person living next to him on his release?

Rehabilitation of sexual offenders, or any offenders for that matter, is a fraught issue. Capital punishment is one response. In a perfect world that would be the best solution :-) No more car thieves, embezzlers, pedophiles etc, after their conviction. Trouble is that can't be sufficiently confident of our legal processes, and, if the penalties were so severe then the crims would be encouraged to be more reckless and destructive in their efforts to evade detection and capture.
I am for castration, life imprisonment, hanging etc. But I worry a bit about getting it wrong here and there.
I think we really need a major review of our criminal law systems. victime impact statements? Do they get enough weight? I wonder if the punishment/public safety denoument of a criminal case should be determined by a calculation of the harm caused by an offence. For example, a pretty minor burglary in which someone breaks in and pinches a $500 dollar TV ($50 down at the pub). But the real consequence is that the elderly couple now live in terror for the next years of their lives! Off with his head. A pedophile who molests a few kids, and in process seriously disturbs the normal development of several people! Off with his head. Reckon the costs to people and society and risk chopping off a few heads I say. Not seriously. But it worries me a lot.
Fencepost.

In the early 60's I met a cousin who liked to wear his mothers' clothes. He was a couple of years younger than me and we-all, regarded his behaviour as weird but essentially harmless. After a short time, his family moved to another rural town and I lost touch until 20-odd years later when I met his mother.
"John" had continued his predilection whilst his parents hoped he would grow out of it. One day he was spotted in drag by a school "mate" with blindingly obvious results. "John" was reviled at school, beaten, spat upon, made to walk home naked on one occasion, and was more or less continually and colloqually shat upon - as was the attitude towards Queers in the late 60's. His parents separated. "John", who had failed year 10 exams, fled to Sydney and gravitated to the Oxford St scene where he was accepted. But he was caught in bed with a boy of nine and was dobbed in, by another "mate". "John" got five years and whilst in prison received the type of treatment from inmates and staff that beggars imagination. He was eventually let loose on the community.
Three years ago I met "John" and the agony associated with that man was indescribeable. Every line on his face, every tremor in his voice screamed out for help and understanding. Society punished John from the late 60"s and continued to punish him then. He had more suffering in the mind than there are words available to describe it. He led a life already removed from the living.
I spoke to him as gently as my stupid male mind could and it must have had an effect because "John" went home and gassed himself in his flat that evening. In his note he quoted that "at last a friendly voice, I can go now."
Yeah, Mr Baldy is a prick and deserves a lot less than his free ride, but don't you dare lump him in with "John" or follow me with the kind of flippant statement occasionally noticed among posts. Apply compassion.

There must be some just way of dealing with this sub-human detritus.
Public naming and shaming, forcing them to conduct unpleasant community service, putting them on the electronic media to publicly face up to what they have done.
Life is too easy for them after they have left innocent lives shredded beyond repair.
I know there is help out there for we victims. I have sought and utilised it but there are some wounds that can never heal.
I am the person I am today because of the stony track I have trodden but revenge would be a nice cure for some of those painful wounds.

enkew
"John" did a good thing for society, a peodaphile is a peodaphile, did you think about the "boy" he was caught in bed with, no I thought not.