General Discussion

(I am a retired mental health professional).
I conducted court ordered psych evaluations for those sitting in jail for various crimes.
Many were sexual offenders.

Some of them had been abused themselves.
Or seriously neglected, yes some had mother issues.
Or seriously immature and consensual sex was frightening on some level.
Or angry at women for various reasons.
Some liked the game of the crime.
And the power trip.
Or pretended the woman came on to them.

It was a mixed bag. Sometimes the childhood stories were quite sad.

The child sexual offenders were difficult for me.
Hearing grown men say the three year they had raped, asked for it.

After a couple of years of this, I asked to move to other clinic duties.
It was not something I wanted to do long term.

I of course stayed professional and wrote the court reports in a neutral clinical way.
The courts and judges wanted certain information and opinions about diagnosis and
treatment.

Actually I thought about those reports after hearing Judge Engoron's ruling recently.
The judges always wanted to know if the people sitting in jail that I was evaluating
expressed any remorse, guilt about what they did. Sometimes they did, sometimes not.
But the judges took that into account in their decisions.