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With regards to the tragic news about RC Fox, we want say how grateful we are to have the support we do. There was a time when things for Sisk could have gone the same way they did for RC Fox. However, Sisk had support from the beginning in people who knew of her innocence.
The justice system is not kind to perceived sex offenders, nor is the world, for that matter, and it can be seen clearly in the case of RC Fox. Understand that, guilty or not, an accused offender is highly likely to lose their life to incarceration or probation.
In prison, sex offenders are often targeted for violence by other inmates and are routinely neglected by prison staff. On probation, sex offenders are typically rendered homeless as they have to pay for their own monitoring, but can't find work or pay with their SO label.
To add to that, all sex offenders have to go through mandatory therapy for a year or more. In some States, like Utah, therapy is a positive thing where sex offenders are taught to value positive life goals over sexual deviancy. This model has shown to be very successful.
However, in other States, like Arizona, a far more harmful blame-based model is used. In this, sex offenders are reminded that their is something wrong with them and that it is their responsibility take blame for their issue, and recognize that they are a danger. That's about it.
Many who are forced into the latter program are driven to suicide. And essentially, this is what happened to RC Fox, except it wasn't perpetrated by some crooked excuse for therapy; it was perpetrated by the only community he thought he could rely on.
The justice system is not kind to sex offenders. It's heavy handed in punishment and often blind in its trial. Guilty or not, it should not be up to a community to dole out punishment. If you want to rid the community of sex offenders, encourage them to seek help, not suicide.
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