EXCLUSIVE: GRADUATES of a secret treatment centre for some of Victoria's worst sexual predators are reoffending at alarming rates after their release back into the community.

The Herald Sun can today reveal that almost one in five of the intellectually disabled men released from the facility in Fairfield strikes again after returning to the ­community.

After completing their treatment, the predators went on to commit serious crimes such as sexually assaulting children, loitering in areas where children are present, making obscene phone calls to schools, assault, obtaining child ­pornography and escaping from ­detention.

Despite long histories as sexual predators, the men were treated in a therapeutic facility where they were taken into the community to test their sexual reactions on unsuspecting members of the public.

Today, the government confirmed it had no plans to close the facility or its $6.3m program and stressed that the re-offending rates offenders who did not take part in the program were much worse.

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So the rate of reoffending by this demographic (intellectually disabled offenders) is normally 60%. With the treatment from the facility it is 18%. Yet they are saying this treatment is a bad idea?

link please.

ian wrote on Jun 25^th, 2014 at 10:45am:

Kytro wrote on Jun 25^th, 2014 at 10:34am:
You will find that the offenders picked for this treatment would have already been chosen for the fact they were at a lower risk of re offending anyway. With programs like these they do not randomly pick participants so the recidivism figures are meaningless unless every single offender gets access to this program.

Intellectually disabled or intellectually challenged?  (Derh - sounds like a new generation of politicians to me)....

This is frankly bizarre... and a direct result of government policy in having not very much in the way of institutions and so forth to cater to such things in society- the property was too good to hold on to when a quick buck could be made...

Idiots!

Armchair_Politician wrote on Jun 25^th, 2014 at 11:19am:


Do you mean all paedophiles or do you mean those who have offended? If someone where to admit have those feelings should they be locked up?

As to the efficacy of treatment - it has a modest success rate generally, but a much higher rate with high-risk offenders.

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Kytro wrote on Jun 25^th, 2014 at 10:49am:


Go tell the 18% how happy you are about it.

King FriYAY II wrote on Jun 25^th, 2014 at 1:05pm:


Aiming for 100% is impossible. To even get close you need a pervasive police state and assumed guilt.

There will always be victims of crime. Some of them will be repeat offenders. Unless we lock up / execute all criminals on the first offence, this will part of society.

There are ways of course to reduce risk.