It is of no doubt that this prompt got me off balance for a bit. Every crime must be treated as one and perpetrators should be treated as one either, no matter what they may seem to become after serving their time or whatever. This proves that punishments are always available when you choose to embrace crime.
But then, here comes the question I said threw me off balance. Should these perpetrators be allowed close to their family or close to minors which may include their children or outsiders?
The truth is that people who have once committed crimes are difficult to predict. At a point you think they are not gonna become a better person and they live to prove otherwise while some may even pretend to have changed but then, their repetition of the criminal act is still ongoing underneath.
How do we know if they have changed truly or not to decide whether to leave them with these same minors or allow them to stay with their children all alone? As well, how do we not end up pushing these people back into their bad ways of life that they have repented from through isolation cos we're simply isolating them when we choose to make their children stay away from them.
Where is the place for true repentance and change when they are isolated from the public and their loved ones especially?
My full take and stance on this is that, everyone deserves a second chance even though it may come at a cost but we all deserve it.
The cost at which he might not be given a total freedom around minors including his children. There should be an indirect close monitoring of which will make us to know if truly he is a changed man.
Knowing fully well that victims of the crimes that these perpetrators committed might not in anyway want a close match between them and these people, it's really a hard error to fix and that's why it's good to always be mindful of whatever we do to ourselves, others and the society because the stigma never leaves easily even if it eventually does and that will even take a while lot of time and effort if there is a genuine change and consistency in pushing through to be accepted back like before.
Just like an incidence of such that happened here in my country between two actors and a minor who is a child to one of them. The issue was something that brought so many traumatized people talking, the victim's mother emotionally damaged and chaos in the industry until the man got to serve his term in prison. The most surprising part is that after he got back, I think he secretly got married and now he is a father of a new born baby.
Either he is been accepted back into the society like before or not, he's decided to live on and creating a family of his own. I don't think that would have happened if his wife, in-laws or close people didn't give him a second chance to live.
Yes, he made grave mistakes, he served his punishment, he is back, victims and Co revisiting his offenses to taunt him, question his right to minors or children and all.... These are consequences of his actions which he won't or shouldn't feel too shocked about except to accept and continue to mould himself not to return to his old ways but it doesn't stop him from living a new life.
Sometimes, when we push away too much, we tend to create more rooms for more perished souls.
So in summary, I wouldn't be in total support of denying him access to children or minors but then, he can be on a close monitoring and watch till every suspicions and doubts are cleared.
I'll be dropping my 🖊️ here on the Hive Learners community prompt
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