To prey upon, overpower and sexually assault children and women is an especially heinous crime to me. What is even more distressing is that the punishment for rape, child abuse (both physical and sexual), and other sexually based offenses is not in my opinion harsh enough. Lawrence Singleton whose case is well known, served only eight years after he picked up a 15 year-old hitchhiker drove her to a wooded area were he raped her and chopped her forearms off with an axe. He left her for dead on the side of the road, but she survived to testify against him. After he was released he brutally murdered a woman in his home. A child molestation case in Texas left the community upset after a man was due to be released after serving only a six year sentence for raping a six-year old boy. He told police that he got away with abusing over 240 children before getting caught for molesting a single child, and if he got out he would do it again.
Sexual predators repeating their crimes is no......

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Title: Harsher Punishment
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