The question we are asking is an obvious one; “do laws such as this truly PROTECT children?” Alabama Representative Steve Hurst seems to think so. His previous years’ and newly introduced legislation, if enacted, would mandate the Department of Corrections to surgically castrate any person over the age of 21 who has been convicted of a sexual crime against a minor under the age of 12 years.
But a national women’s organization is challenging the usefulness of such a law, asserting that it does nothing to increase community safety but seriously infringes upon the rights of registrants and those who are maintaining their innocence of any crime. If the intention is to have sexual offenders not be able to commit another crime against a child, then this legislation is a waste of time and tax payer’s dollars. Full Article
How do these offensive people get positions of influence and power? From where do they come? How is it these un-American and heathen/barbaric ideas are taken seriously? I would call dangerous men and their ideas, like this one, ludicrous, but this is not funny! This is truly frightening. Representative Steve Hurst is obviously a very disturbed man.