RE: Ex-teacher gets 60 years for wife's stabbing, sex with middle schooler
If the dude was going to try to kill anyone, he should have tried to slit his own throat.
The issue though is that this guy is seriously ill and he should have sought help sooner. I personally believe that pedo and hebephilia are mental illnesses that need to be monitored and treated. That being said, I'm not saying this guy is blameless but quite the opposite.
I think this went the way it did because he did something he knew was wrong and when he got caught he decided to go to the nuclear option instead of adding he was sick and trying to get the proper help through the right channels, even if that would mean prison time and potentially getting his head caved in.
I know this comment is all over the place, but I'm stuck between being disgusted by this man and trying to understand why he did what he did, so this doesn't happen with anyone else.
Technically, hebephilia is not a mental illness according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), and it has no association with pedophilia despite what the mainstream media and press may mislead the public to believe. It's no question that this man in the above article was no saint and that his actions deserved retribution from the law. However, it would still not merit the American Psychiatric Association to reclassify hebephilia as a paraphilia and mental disorder in the same manner that pedophilia is classified. There would be way too many downsides to it. Dr. Ray Blanchard tried to do so back in 2013, but the American Psychiatric Association (APA) rejected his attempt and for very good reasons. Doing so would be as illogical as branding every Salvadorian to be an MS-13 gang member.