Preventive detention
Sir,—Mr Geoffrey Palmer’s promise that the sentence of preventive detention ordered for a recently convicted sex offender is a binding one, is reassuring. However, why is this sentence delivered so sparingly? There would be many victims of perverted sexual acts unharmed, and in some cases still alive today, if the perpetrators of previous molestations had been given a more obligatory sentence. Victims are, sadly, so often innocent and vulnerable children. Until a better way is found of dealing with people with this particular brand of sickness, every step should be taken by individuals as well as concerned organisations to urge the Justice Department to impose the. most stringent measures on all sex offenders, who are a threat not only to themselves but to society at large.—Yours, etc., JUNE DALZIEL. Amberley, October 30, 1986.
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