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I like Cathy and respect her opinion a lot but on this case I have to disagree. I could write something very long and since I don’t get paid to do so I’m going to make a few brief points instead and elucidate as needed in replies. However, while I do believe that psychiatric care is important to…

…to provide to perpetrators, I do somewhat chafe at the doctrine which fully absolves individuals of the accountability for their actions on the basis of psychiatric illness more than merely mitigates that responsibility. Children are the most vulnerable people in our society, and are uniquely…

…vulnerable to their parents, who are assigned extraordinary legal leeway in the treatment of their children, and even more extraordinary social leeway; the result of this is a reality in which nearly ten percent of children suffer sexual abuse at home by the age of 18, and significantly more…