KerryMumbledore,
I agree its a slipperly slope with any sexual offences. But do you really think that someone who looks at child porn should really be as punished as severely someone who commits serial rape and murder of small children?
If someone comes forward for help to get them off the slipperly slope should they be automatically jailed?
What would you do with someone who goes to their GP and says that watching children makes them have sexual thoughts and they want help even though they have committed no criminal offence.
I think paedophiles do have human rights. They have the right to food, shelter and to be free from torture. Their right to freedom has to be balanced with children's rights to be safe.
I think criminals who are jailed should be kept in clean jails, given reasonable food and rehabilitation/ education. Their jails should also be guarded in a way to stop sex offenders being beaten up or tortured by other prisoners. Otherwise we are as bad as the criminals themselves.