Serial offender is not repeat offender? How do you justify that? A serial offender committed several offences...its akin to repeating the offences after the first one...how do you gurantee that it would not be repeated in the future...justice is not about vengence...its all about apt punishment and detterent...32 yrs for his attack on nine young and helpless gals in my book is justified....thats my judgement...furthermore he be out in 20 yrs maybe....at early forties.....I think one need to see it from all perspectives not just the victim's....in fact i am asking those that made the comment to think in the perspective from those that are related to the girls..if its the victim's perspective that I am advocating, 32 yrs is surely non sufficient for the physical and pyschological abuse they suffered.....simple as that....and yes instead of simply making a third party comments, do spare a thought for the victims and apply the case hypothetically to someone that you know...perhaps you will have a better perspective of the severity of the crime and why a draconian punishment is definitely required.
You're confused. It's not about justification, it's interpretation. An offender may have committed a series of offences prior to arrest but when apprehended he or she can only be charged as a first offender, like it or not it's the law. A repeat offender is someone convicted of an offence and punished before, he or she repeats a similar offence. A recalcitrant, so to speak.
When you look at justice, you look at what that's just and what that's fair. When you judge you dispense justice, you dont guarantee, you cant. Different penal code calls for different penalty and within there's maximum or minimum sentence. You can only puinish someone for the wrongs he or she has done, you cannot punish someone for wrongs you THINK he or she will do in the future, you're no god my friend.
You're entitiled to your own opinion, no challenge on that. Nonetheless, as judgement in all justice, perspective is one thing while having to be fair and just to the victims as well as the offender is quite another altogether. He being in his early forties upon release has no bearing unless you're saying that older paedophile will have leniency. Punishing him with justice in mind is one thing but to punish him with hate emotions in mind is quite another altogether regardless of how despicable and vile paedophiles are deem to society.:p