@The Humanitarian, you show your impetuousness to defend your posts with emboldened vitriolic responses that appear to show you have not understood the respondents answer.
First of all I am trying to make the point these people should be prosecuted, even if they are serving a full life term.
Secondly, women who have been attacked/flashed etc DO DRAW SOME SMALL MEASURE OF JUSTICE when these people are successfully prosecuted. They know that at least that particular person will never do it to them, or anyone else, ever again.
Whether every victim of these crimes feels vindicated/relieved/sense of justice will depend on each individual and not for me, or anyone else to speculate about. Someone I know closely was a victim of sexual assault and, even though the perpetrator has since died, she doesn't feel as though her fears will ever go away. It takes tremendous effort to keep those fears contained in a 'locked box' but certain situations can open that box and then the struggle to contain them has to start all over again.
To make it crystal clear. I do not agree with the O/P. I think no matter how long someone is imprisoned for, whether is be the usual life, (10 years?), or whole life, (never to be released), they should be prosecuted for any other crimes they have committed that have a high chance of conviction. Don't forget, we still have a law that gives a new sovereign the right to free all prisoners if they decide to. This is why we refer to people serving time at her/his majestys' pleasure. So the more convictions on their charge sheet the less chance of them EVER being released.
