AUSTRALIA
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A senior rabbi believes the justice system should be more lenient towards paedophiles who have stopped offending so that those who repent don’t feel like ‘scum’ forever.
Paedophiles who are no longer abusing children should not have to spend their lives feeling like the ‘scum of the earth’, Rabbi Yosef Feldman told the royal commission into child sex abuse on Monday.
‘I would be asking for more leniency on people who have shown that they haven’t offended in the last 20 years or decades ago, and have psychological analyses that this is the case,’ Rabbi Feldman said.
‘Once someone is not a pedophile any more or is showing (he) is not acting wrongly any more, that should be considered in a very strong way.’
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