One of Britain’s most notorious child killers died Saturday, days after he was attacked by a fellow inmate in the workshop of a maximum-security prison.
Karin Slaughter is one of my favorite crime novelists.
She had an interesting take; she said that the reason child molesters have trouble in prison is because a lot of the prisoners were molested themselves. It isn’t about avenging other people’s kids.
well, yes. that would be my first guess.
you had previously thought that people in jail just didnt like the idea of someone hurting kids? as in they are the avengers of children?
Karin Slaughter is one of my favorite crime novelists.
She had an interesting take; she said that the reason child molesters have trouble in prison is because a lot of the prisoners were molested themselves. It isn’t about avenging other people’s kids.
well, yes. that would be my first guess. you had previously thought that people in jail just didnt like the idea of someone hurting kids? as in they are the avengers of children?
I always thought of it in terms of "we’re professional criminals, we go against the police and society as a whole.
“We don’t want to be locked up with dirty perverts.”
I saw it as a pride thing, tbh.
yeah fair enough
That’s why when I read Ms. Slaughter’s line it really hit home.
I was seeing the macho image they wanted to convey, and ignoring the hurt children who were lashing out.