Child Predators Need Both Punishment By Jake Goldenflame

According to studies of sex offenders there is a 36% chance of them re-offending. The viewpoints that are going to be used are “Child Predators Need Both Punishment and Treatment” written by Jake Goldenflame, a convicted child sexual abuser who believes that sexual predators with treatment won’t reoffend and provides his number of years he has been without reoffending as evidence. The credibility of Goldenflame can be severely questioned due to the fact that he is a sexual abuser of his own daughter. The other selection being used is “Child Predators Should Be Executed” written by Dave Gibson, a political consultant and a columnist provides an examples of a young girl being abducted and raped and also provides his number of arrests over. Gibson provides a stronger argument in his viewpoint. The reasoning behind this conclusion is that Gibson provides substantial evidence to support his claims. He uses harsh reasoning to prove why his point is more effective such as, “...child molesters are perpetrating another type of holocaust, on the children of America” (Gibson). He also provides a story of a young girl, Jessica who was abducted, raped, and murdered and then buried in a …show more content…
Gibson provides many pieces of statistical evidence to show that sexual predators should receive the death penalty such as when he says, “...most states require that he registers himself as a sex-offender. There are currently[2005] more than 400,000 registered sex-offenders in the United States. This tactic too has proven useless.” He makes a really strong statement towards the end of his point of view by saying, “We are simply failing to protect our kids.” Which is powerful because it hits parents really hard when it comes to them failing to protect their children. The evidence that Goldenflame uses is not nearly as strong as he uses previous medical testing as most of his sources of