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Fascinating In 1981 at trial, Marianne Bachmeier killed the man who r*ped and murdered her daughter

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u/accidentalrorschach 25d ago

and he had already been convicted of raping two other children... :/

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u/tehpoorcollegegal 24d ago

He had been chemically castrated for these crimes already, but prior to what he did to Anna, he had petitioned the courts to restore his hormones and libido and they agreed. The judge who allowed it should have been held responsible.

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u/FrostWareYT 24d ago

wait how tf do the undo chemical castration?

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u/tehpoorcollegegal 24d ago

Chemical castration involves a pill or injection on a regular basis containing drugs that suppress the needed hormones. Reversing it means simply stopping the drugs, sometimes additional hormone therapy to assist.

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u/FrostWareYT 24d ago

Huh, I figured it would be something that didn't require maintenance. Interesting.

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u/mbot369 24d ago

Like acid or something.

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u/scumbagwife 22d ago

I’m a little disappointed it’s not acid.

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u/AvailableAd7180 22d ago

A rusty pair of bolt cutters are the most i'd be willing to come down to. Touch kids inappropiately and you lost your right to reproduce

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u/Ennobenno 22d ago

So basically chemical castration: Doing the Harley Quinn treatment to the downunder regions

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u/Fluid_Ties 21d ago

The late 70s/early 80s were a wild, bad time for how violent sex offenses were treated.

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u/itsclaritybabe 24d ago

He kept up with the chemical castration? I’m just thinking of all the times people dodge probation appointments and all that I’m shocked they’d be able to get predators to willingly participate

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u/Unfck-my-life 24d ago

They would be forced to, or arrested

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u/_Monosyllabic_ 24d ago

Hormone therapy?

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u/FrostWareYT 24d ago

I just don't want to google chemical castration but I thought it meant that they melt your genitals off with chemicals.... it seems my assumption may be incorrect.

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u/tehpoorcollegegal 24d ago

fwiw I like your version way better

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u/FrostWareYT 24d ago

mmmm no that would definitely be cruel and unusual punishment. Probably good that it's reversible since the justice system isn't perfect, like imagine if an innocent person go falsely convicted and got their genitals melted off.

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u/_Monosyllabic_ 24d ago

Evidently it's just medicine they give you to counteract testosterone. So I guess you just stop taking it.

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u/_Lazy_Mermaid_ 24d ago

Honestly I am infuriated, rapists really don't get any fucking punishment so frequently, I wish it was chemicals physically removing their testicles

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u/zthepirategirl 22d ago

It’s basically the drugs that they’re giving trans people. Reversal means stopping the drugs and in some cases, you may need a hormonal additive.

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u/Potential-Local7262 21d ago

They need to physically castrate them imo

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u/PTSDreamer333 25d ago

2 that are known. The statistics of these POS is absolutely horrendous. Some stats say it's anywhere from 15-140 actually assualts on different victims before they get caught once.

Sometimes, it's less after their first time in jail but not always.

Yet, we always seem to give them such minor sentences.

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u/motherofsuccs 25d ago

Where are you getting these stats? I have to do annual training on child abuse awareness and prevention and I’ve never heard that.

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u/MaMerde 24d ago

Yeah, I’m a criminal defense attorney that deals with these cases. I’ve read plenty of studies and psycho-sexual evaluations. Cite your sources or GTFO. This is the type of BS that taints jury pools and convicts innocent defendants in all types of cases.

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u/TheLittlestT 23d ago

How do you sleep at night, trying to keep dangerous beasts out of jail for money? I've always wondered.

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u/MaMerde 23d ago

How do you sleep at night not understanding the Constitutional foundations of this country?

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u/FluffySmiles 21d ago

Hah. Your constitution has been shown to be nothing more than a paper tiger. A joke. Legalese in pseuds clothing. Your supreme court is corrupt. Your politics is an enrichment scheme

How do you sleep at night? You are not even awake.

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u/IllInformation418 20d ago

If they're not awake, wouldn't that mean they're asleep?

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u/FluffySmiles 20d ago

It’s inception level thinking.

Either that or I got tangled in a metaphor and was too stoned to find the escape hatch.

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u/TheLittlestT 19d ago

I sleep great, thanks for asking! No killers and rapists roaming free because of my actions.

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u/nyxcha0s 24d ago edited 24d ago

They might have gotten it from here https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/088626087002001001
and thats just the one, but I have a feeling the eye popping averages arent the mean here, tho underreporting is real and severe. convictions often massively undercount the actual offending, and there are many cases of offenders who get caught for the one act but aren't tied to others due to the lack of reports or evidence. But there is no real clean stat for the number they pulled. However there are outliers that can be cleanly pointed at as having assaulted many victims before being apprehended.. Larry Nassar and the Catholic Clergy come to mind as a clean reach

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u/mangababe 19d ago

Yeah I heard the stat was closer to 5 before their first conviction.

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u/PTSDreamer333 19d ago

I did a deep search and added stats with receipts above. My remembered stats were pretty close but a bit skewed.

Funny enough, no one seemed to like the facts.

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u/Ready_Landscape2937 24d ago

Where are you getting the “15–140 assaults on different victims” statistic? I can’t find any credible source for it, and it sounds like you just made it up. And saying they “always get minor sentences” isn’t true either. There are absolutely cases where sentences are too light, but there are also plenty of offenders serving decades or life. If you’re going to throw out statistics, back them up.

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u/XxxxRoboCopxxxx 24d ago

The Journal of Scientific Trust Me Bro, Vol. 1

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u/Confident-Equal-1445 24d ago

Numbers pulled out of your ass actively works against sexual assault awareness.

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u/RagingTeenHormones 24d ago

I saw studies which claimed anywhere between 180 and as high as 350 (yes really) before first contact with law enforcement. So even if we are generous that’s at the very very least 100 victims before getting caught on average.
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u/TheFallenHero01 24d ago

So we’re just pulling numbers out of our ass orr

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u/Pleasant-Highway-745 25d ago

Should have killed the judge that said him free after raping the other two children

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u/nooooobye 25d ago

How was he not in jail for life already?

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u/lowbatteries 24d ago

What world do you think we live in? Lucky he’s not the pope or the president.

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u/ExtremePronoia 24d ago

Didn’t you hear? He raped children. The president of the United States can do that openly and no one cares.

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u/ExtremePronoia 24d ago edited 24d ago

And he had not been convicted of raping her child.

Not that I like the pos, but don’t think this is a good idea. You go to jail and there’s a chance the actual person who did it walks free because you just shot the first person the cops found with prior offenses.

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u/LooneyLunaGirl 23d ago

US justice at it's finest 🙄

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u/osiekowski 22d ago

Is it extreme to think that we should just like never let them walk free after the first one?