‘Rapists Need Help’
It is time it was realised that rapists and similar people were in “a hell of false feelings and compulsions,” and in -need of pity and help as much as their victims, says an article in the “New Zealand Methodist.” While life-long damage could be done to a person by a painful sexual experience in childhood, the people who committed such crimes were also in need of help as also were the “thousands of people in whom any news of sex violence triggers off violent hatred.” Discussing the intense reaction to an Auckland newspaper columnist’s suggestion that those convicted of child rape be sentenced to life imprisonment, the newspaper says: “Many letters, indeed, glowed with self-satisfaction. Their writers obviously felt that it did them credit to feel so vengeful; that it showed that, however poor success they might* make of life in various ways, their heart was in the right place.’\
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31085, 14 June 1966, Page 10
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