The Axiom Of Realistic Expectations
Individuals Demonstrate Valid Behavior
By Having Realistic Expectations
For Themselves, Their Lives, And Others
Tomorrow, George Feigley, who has served the last 33 years in prison for “sex crimes against children,” will be set free. (“Child Sex ‘Cult’ Leader Freed From Prison”) “He is expected to return to his house at 1316 Derry St. in Harrisburg [PA], the residence where in 1975 prosecutors say he sexually abused children while acting as the charismatic leader of a sex cult [his Neo American Church] and advocating the use of children for sexual gratification.” To make matters worse, Megan’s Law, which requires sex offenders to notify local police of any address or employment changes, does not apply to Feigley “because of the timing and nature of his crimes.”
What is most disturbing about this case is that Feigley clearly has not been rehabilitated: In 1994, 19 years into his first sentence, he was “found guilty and sentenced for conspiracy to commit involuntary deviate sexual intercourse.” Apparently, while speaking on a prison telephone, he “gave commands to his wife and another man on work release to have sex with a 14-year-old girl.” To this day, his wife “runs and writes for a Web site called www.prisioners.com” on which Feigley has published “his views on how the motivations for rape and rapists are misunderstood.”
Over the years, there have been countless cases of sex offenders being released, only to once again commit horrendous crimes: John Couey, Joseph Edward Duncan, Jesse Timmendequas, and Alfonso Rodriguz Jr., to name a few. With rates ranging from 52% to 88.3%, it is hard to measure the long-term recidivism of sexual offenders (“The Numbers Guy: How Likely Are Sex Offenders To Repeat Their Crimes?”). Nevertheless, if it’s safe to say that in the long run, more than half of all previously convicted sexual offenders are re-convicted for sex crimes, those aren’t good odds, especially considering that there are probably some (or many) who aren’t caught the second time around. And with a history like Feigley’s, we will more than likely be reading about another innocent child (or children) suffering at his hands before too long.
When we as a society allow repeat sexual offenders to walk our streets (because their prison sentences are completed), we are choosing their rights over the rights of their victims, as well as putting other adults and children in danger. We could easily avoid this by instituting capital punishment for repeat sexual offenders: They have severely violated the rights and innocence of another person more than once, so it seems a logical consequence that these actions would forfeit their own right to live in society and be fed and housed at taxpayer’s expense.
A socially beneficial realistic expectation: When you choose to commit sexual crimes repeatedly, you are choosing death.
Anna and Ellie Sherise
Creators of Magna Sententia
Authors of Magna Sententia: The Logical Cure for Our Society
