To think people like this should be imprisoned for life

Yes but the reoffending rate goes from over 50% to 0-5%

Its a huge difference and much more effective than a prison sentence (which they should also get).

I agree.

After working in the prison system, I know for a fact that these men cannot get rehabilitated.

So many times men in prison for rape have been convicted of similar crimes before.

Chemical castration is such a simple solution and massively reduces the rate of reoffending and it costs the tax payers less money in the long run.

I don’t understand how in this day and age, chemical castration isn’t an option for anyone raping someone under 16.

There seems to be very little data on castration but I found this:

In Denmark in the late 1950s and early 1960s sex offenders were permitted to choose prison or surgical castration. Research on 900 castrated sex offenders showed that the rate of repeat offenses was low, about 5 percent. But 46 percent of the men said they continued to have intercourse.

We know child rapists aren't going to be locked up forever so personally if they're going to be let out anyway I'd rather they'd been surgically castrated.

PP's say castration doesn't work because you can still have sex but rape isn't about an uncontrollable sex drive, it's about power and violence - but when your testosterone levels are far lower, even if you can still have sex, I'd assume the angry, power hungry, dominating side of you is going to be reduced right along with your sex drive.

I think anger makes people wish for those things. Maybe, even call for them in the heat of the moment.

Sometimes people mean it, some don't. I'm not sure you can't tell which from a forum post.

Doesn't matter, it's not going to happen.

My own view, is they deserve everything they get and more but I stop at a very lengthy prison sentence. I don’t like the idea of fighting monsters by becoming monsters and taking the life of another human is being is monsterous.

I'm not saying others have to agree. That's just how I feel.

I don't care one jot about the welfare of these sick people. I hope the public never has to deal with them again. No excises.

My energy, effort, and money cares only for their victims.

Fair point, but I always think some people would if they could.

You know a castrated man can still get an erection and rape?

Honestly of humane castration resolved the issue, I’d be an advocate. Unfortunately it doesn’t. They just abuse in different ways.

Those poor girls.

@ilovesooty while being level headed is admirable, people are allowed to be angry. Angry people say angry things. They generally don’t head out with a rusty secateurs and carry out their threats.

Didn't have to wait long.

Since they haven't yet been sentenced, we don't know what their sentences will be. The indications are that they are likely to be substantial, as they should be.

I expect there will now be posts advocating torture and capital punishment.

They should be castrated.

Despicable. Those poor girls, I hope these verdicts bring them peace and a chance to move on.

Weird for the judge to say ‘juries always reach the correct verdicts.’ I’m sure they did in this case, but that’s clearly not universally true.