Trigger warning: Assault, Rape, Torture, Paedophilia, Incest

[paradox]

Nine years ago a local man named Ronald Van Der Plaat was sentenced to 14 years in jail for the rape and torture of his daughter.

While reading the newspaper today, I found out that he was paroled last month.  I feel appalled, sick, and despairing.  

I keep thinking things like:
How can people like him even exist in the same world that I experience?
Why is it so often men that do things like this?
What would I do if I ran into him on the street?

I want to write more about this, but I'm honestly too distressed.

Comments

[walk_of_the_fallen]

I completely understand your distress. Sex crimes of this nature are not like other criminal acts; they have found most of these people are NOT remedied by time in jail, nor the threat of jail, nor by therapy. So the concept of such a person again at liberty is horrifying in the extreme.

It makes my little liberal heart shamed to admit it; but stuff like this makes me understand the very old fashioned habit of facial branding for certain crimes. Then everyone is warned and can RUN.

[animeshon]

Sometimes I am disgusted at the New Zealand justice system. He should have been sentenced to far more than 14 years, and should not be eligible for parole!