Rock Singer Pleads Guilty To Attempted Rape Of Baby

[ChillDoubt]

and other offences:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-25108439

Throw away the key.......

[andy-hughes]

lilypoppyfre - "there is should be no treatment for such people ..money in the health service should be used to treat ill people....depraved characters like Watkins and the like should be jailed immediately , with no comfort and privileges."

I think as a society we have to be wary of allowing our emotional reaction to someone's behaviour to overshadow the reasons for that behaviour.

I don't think anyone would argue that this behaviour is depraved and abhorent, but that should not divert us from the task of trying to establish why it has happened.

Deviant behaviour is a complex issue, and I think it would be wrong for us to deny a potential mental illness because of our perfectly reasonable revulsion at the results of that illness.

To simply decide arbitrarily that someone deserves a lifetime of pain and suffering for actions over which they may have no control, is not the reaction of a civilised society.

Of course, my point does depend on the extensive psychiatric evaluations which will follow this case -should it be proven that these actions are the result of a simply evil mind, then I would welcome an appropriate prison sentence - but that still remains to be seen, and we must work very hard to ensure that our checks and balances remain in place, even when every human emotion cries out for revenge.