@ Lizzie

I definitely think sentencing for serious sexual assault of children is ridiculously low. An abuser can often be out to abuse again after a couple of years (the courts place more importance on money than on children's safety). If there's no internally established sense of wrong for someone who is sexually *attracted* to children (remember that many peadophiles do not molest children, but instead use non-abusive paedophilic erotic materials like fiction and cartoons - these non-abusive peadophiles who restrain themselves, just don't make headlines) then prison is no deterrent. People who get caught abusing and are imprisoned and then released, just simply go back to do it again. I'm not in favour of death sentences (people can be wrongfully killed for one thing) but I would be in favour of actual life for serious child sex offenders, and especially repeat offenders.