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My husband raped two women and I had to answer for his crimes

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I've read a number of stories like this over many years. The basic outline is the same. A woman meets a man who committed some unspeakably vile crime in his past, but now he appears to be fully reformed and a model citizen. She falls in love with him and marries him. Then he commits another unspeakably vile crime.

That's just my observation. I don't know what, if any, conclusions can be drawn from it.

Stories of "A woman meets a man who committed some unspeakably vile crime in his past, but now he appears to be fully reformed and a model citizen, and in fact he is" are probably less newsworthy, so there's a selection bias in play here.

I say that with the same agnosticism that you related your observation. I don't know whether such stories exist at all, or if they're a majority or a minority compared to the recidivist stories.

Little, I would guess. If the "Then he commits another unspeakably vile crime" part weren't there, chances are you wouldn't read about it because it wouldn't be published.

>he appears to be fully reformed and a model citizen. She falls in love with him and marries him. Then he commits another unspeakably vile crime.

it does seem like the guy has (i'm not a doctor, so this is just anonymous Internet banter obviously) some mental disorder. The switch between personalities is clearly described in the article and it is also noticeable that the targets of his assaults were women clearly older than him and falling into a ballpark of "teenager's mother" age. Somewhere in the future i hope we'd find a way to correct/repair broken psych machinery what today results in a murder, rapes and countless ruined lives...

This sounds like standard psychopath behavior: https://www.gitbook.com/book/hintjens/psychopathcode/details https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy

My conclusion is that committing unspeakably vile crimes requires for human to be physically damaged and punishment doesn't address that. Sometimes time heals the damage but not always also the damage might reappear as offender gets older.

I'm not sure that the punitive justice system can be blamed for guilt by association social stigma and victim blaming. If anything, having a clear actor to blame for the crimes would seem to protect them from any guilt or stigma as a matter of agency. This gets to the notion of being "tainted" or purity based morality, which is something different all together.

Am I crazy or was this already posted on Vox earlier this year? The date says today but I swear that this is older than that.

You are not crazy. I also read this earlier this year. The URL is dated 2016-1-13 and archive.org confirms this publish date. Not sure if the listed date is a bug or deception by Vox.

I wonder if that's why someone decided to flag this story.

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