Paedophiles in prison: Why they are most likely going to get killed by inmates?

Question

One of Britain's worst paedophile, Richard Huckle, stabbed to death in prison recently.

https://www.BBC.com/news/uk-50042406

Why child sex offenders like him being targeted by another inmates?

I am not saying he did not deserve it, but what could be the motivation behind it? Why they have the desire to kill people like him?

jennifer_bloom · Accepted Answer

My dad told me something about another case a guy named Bernardo raped and tortured some innocent girls and all the criminals in the jail cell were swearing profanities at him and saying when he joined them in prison they would beat the crap out of him for hurting those innocent woman. Even criminals have a sense of justice and a desire to punish those who do wrong - often times the person in jail for killing somebody else had less heinous reasons - for example - maybe they murdered the guy who raped his sister - or maybe they murdered a guy who was threatening to kill his wife - or maybe they murdered their parents for sexually molesting them - or maybe they killed somebody when they were influenced by illegal drugs somebody snuck into their drink. My aunt owns a law firm in China and her husband helps her run it - he says not all murderers are like the crazy people you see on t. v. - some of them are very decent people who made one mistake under duress or extreme situations. This is why a lot of criminals beat up other criminals in prison out of anger at them for their crimes.

sejla · Accepted Answer

Some people who have committed crimes have lines they won't cross themselves like hurting children and many of them have children of their own or have been abused themselves. There are a lot of hurt people in prison that were abused as children. That's really not something they'd wish on another human being.

Dolemite510 · Accepted Answer

I did some prison time a when I was a teenager. Among inmates there’s Certain crimes that are unacceptable to have on your record if you’re in general population. If the guards or inmates find out someone comes in with bad paperwork like they’re a Child molestor or rapist that inmate is given a hit on sight green light meaning if any other inmate even sees them you have to beat them down or kill them. Most guys with bad charges choose to be in protective custody though which means they’re kept away from everyone else but their cellmates are also other creepy pedo’s.

esotericstory · Accepted Answer

If you have killed you get a higher rank in prison and more respect. Therefore some see it as an opportunity to to eliminate the universally undesirable to achieve higher respect, better treatment from other inmates.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

Many men in prison were sexually abused when they were children. This is their misdirected way of getting revenge on their childhood demon.

CubsterShura · Answer

Because even the other prisoners have enough ethics to never do that disgusting shit. Some of those prisoners have probably involved themselves in criminal acts to feed their own starving kids back home and they do have feelings and sympathy. Which pedophiles don't at all.

Did you know that once two thieves stole this man's laptop and as when they turned it on they found a lot of child porn content in it and then they handed the laptop to the police and got the owner arrested. So uh yeah... Criminals can also have morals. It's not entirely a black and white thing.

wankiam · Answer

because they are often weak and pathetic they are seenas a much easier target than big hard murderers who are more of a threat... i was listening to a radio 4 news piece on it just a couple of days ago and it was a long term prisoner who said what i just said...

Exotica08 · Answer

Some people have been molested or had family members molested and watched as it destroyed their lives. Some inmates are in prison due to not getting the help they needed after being molested themselves. Some turn to drugs, others turn to letting out anger on innocent people and some become offenders themselves. That's why they kill them, to try and stop the cycle.

Киттйлинк · Answer

Are you serious? A child can’t even attempt to defend themselves at all against a grown ass disgusting perv. Whereas another person although still sad, has at least a bit more of a possibility to fight off a rapist/predator and such...

It’s disgusting

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

Well my late maternal Grand-dad was former Deputy Sheriff
he once told us , If you go to any prison and word gets out
that you hurt/ kill a child , woman , your as good as dead you
won't last long in prison. Now if you kill a Police officer. Deputy
sheriff you are considered a Hero , the prisoners would leave
you alone. So see it all depends. Being a pedophile your going
in there cause most likely you molested or raped a child so
that is why you would or could possibly end up dead.

Randomawkwardness · Answer

Because there's a difference in killing someone and taking advantage of younger children. Even if someone is a murderer, they still likely have children or have loved one who do. It's our natural instinct to protect the young as they're so helpless.

Edanurus · Answer

We tend to forget that criminals are human and have human emotions. They justify their actions for some reason or another. Murder, assault theft, drugs all have justifications behind them but when it comes to this what could possibly be the justification behind it?

subpoenasubshmoana · Answer

Because its vile. Somehow my exs brother and rapist from elementary school junior high and high school Austin davis who made incest and pedophile pornographic material of her sent to the fucking school board she was known as his and christophers pet slave didn't go to prison and is still involved with her with the help of sinterpol and her family and a lot of shitty people who fucked with me and protected my pedophile my third cousin Adam jared miller who made me into violently humiliating pedophile pornographic material at 14

proatv13 · Answer

Mrs always been this way rapist and child molesters will get killed in general population prisons as soon as the head of the race finds out what they're there for. These days do you have to carry your paperwork that shows while you're there else you're probably going to end up with an ass whooping Right off the bat. Second thing is because statistic show that once they do it once they're going to do it again no matter if they do 20 years or more in DOC it's fucked up that people's heads are that screwed up to where they could go and do that again. So the inmates feel it's der duty to make sure it can't happen again same with rape. Here and AZ child molesters in rapist have their own prison yards where their all together because they can't be put in general

chriscdi · Answer

because pedophilia is something disgusting, they are using innocent children for their sexual pleasures, just cause inmates are criminals doesn't mean they dont have nor care about children or animals and so on, a lot of inmates have children and they wouldn't tolerate a pedophile sharing the same cell, what else can i say 🤷‍♂️

I-C3_ME · Answer

Because when people read or get to know this almost all get angry i mean really angry (cuz their kids ).

I once heard a paeopholi went to prison & in de first or second night they broke into he's sell beat him really hard, to finish they shuved pipes down in to (I don't want to say it but u know where) needless to say he died that day. There was something with the guards they opend the gates or helped beating him up, I can't remember wich one

FakeName123 · Answer

Because children are innocent and vulnerable, require our protection. Even criminals know that.

Also if pedophiles get beat up its not uncommon that prison guards take longer to get to the scene for obvious reasons - which surely doesn't help the mortality rate of imprisoned pedophiles.

TheRealQuestion2 · Answer

Pedophiles and rapists are often targeted in prisons.

My dad spent 30 days in jail when he was younger (false arrest). He said while he was there the guards brot in a known rapist and locked him in a high capacity cell with about a dozen other guys, then the guards left. The rest of the inmate beat the rapist to death, then the guards came back and took his body out of the cell.

alvincasey · Answer

Paedophiles are most likely to survive. Yes they are targeted by other inmates just because in prison they are always picking on the weak. Usually they are just easy targets

jc2992 · Answer

Well because as you find out, many people that are in prison were abused sexually. so it goes without saying that their gonna direct their own anger at what happened to them onto the pedophile in prison. Honestly i can see why they hate pedophiles besides that though. it takes a special kind of evil to cause any kind of harm to a child. our jobs as adults are to protect children at any and all cost. not hurt them!. that's the kind of shit that causes people mental scarring for life.

Drumlin2001 · Answer

People who abuse kids are seen as the lowest of the low, especially in prison. can't say i have any sympathy with him.

bolverk · Answer

Even criminals will defend the youngest and weakest in society and its those that Paedophiles target without any remorse.
The Intersectional/Identitarian Left is trying to get Paedophilia accepted as a valid sexual choice.

JonDoe1985 · Answer

In Chicago, they actually have to place them in their own sections. Personally, I only sympathise with the peadophiles who haven't done anything. They need help, and try and get help, but its hard because of the stigma. However, once they've crossed the line, they deserve to be put away.

YHL6965 · Answer

Honestly, who doesn't hate pedophiles? Most of them are basically mentally sick and there is little hope prison will make them better so I think that's why they are more likely to get killed. Besides, they target children.

blutwolfe · Answer

A lot of people in prison have families believe it or not, so they are hated with a passion, don't forget some people we lock up, are actual people like you and me.

DiegoO · Answer

Most were molested or raped as kids, so killing a sexual predator, such as a pedophile, is a win, win for them. They also feel morally superior to pedophiles.

I can understand kids should be untouchable, they are innocents, but most inmates would cross that line. They have no moral boundaries. A thief can become an assassin, an assassin a rapist, and so on. Evil is an abysm, you can always drop lower, from what I have analyzed.

standardguy · Answer

By that the other criminals feel better persons and think that they are just normal citizens compared to this 'monster'. And of course persons in prison are morally bad persons and tend more to criminal behaviour (as murder or torture) than persons out of prison.

Gedaria · Answer

They think it is a hateful crime. Because it involves children , the crime they are in for is not as bad , so they are targeted. Plus some try to live in the prison openly , fabricating a story why they are in there for, instead of being on protection..

Ceasar97 · Answer

Because even most inmates have at least minimal ethics. Raping a child/or killing one is consider below their ethical boundry to a point where they decide you should die.

robertKugler · Answer

Chances are some of those inmates faced simular abuse as children themselves and in someway part of the reason they r institutionalized...
It's not hard to picture a pedophiles fate... and for an inmate serving a whatever term sentence.. retrebution n redemption... a waste of life for a wasted life... would satisfy to level the scales of cosmic justice... If only barely..

Pejtu · Answer

Yes they probably will get killed by some dude that already has Life sentance  If not then they are going to have some real funn with his ass untill he breaks mentalny and just kills himself

demonj1 · Answer

No body likes chesters... a lot of prisoners have kids too. A better question; why do prisons put them in protective custody...  Seems like the only people who like them are the prisons themselves.

Southeast · Answer

Because even amongst boob heads there's a code don't prey on the weak e. g hurting woman elderly and children pedophiles are the main target but rapists and domestic violence offenders are also big targets in the Aussie system

markscott · Answer

Fellow prisoners don't like pedophiles. They are looked at as the lowest in prison. And prisoners often have children. I imagine that is why there are more often killed.

Fey18 · Answer

It's just known they are the worst of the worst. To me, there is no worse crime in the world than destroying innocence. Perhaps the other prisoners know this and it makes them feel somewhat better to rid the world of something so evil.

Hungone48 · Answer

Yes they are I spent 2 years in prison. They have a special yard for pedophiles and rapers. But once in a while one of them get put in main line and will be killed on sight.

Shahax · Answer

Because even criminals have beliefs in good and evil and standards, pedos in there are the lowest of the low

MissDawn7961 · Answer

maybe the inmates found out that their own sister , daughter or some innocent little one they knew was molested by a man like this one and do not want it to happen again

BarryMcKohkner · Answer

Because that is the lowest of the low. You don't fuck with kids. A lot of inmates fucked up in life, but what they all have in common is they never fucked a kid.

ThatFarmGuy · Answer

Because it's lowest of lows. Regardless of your political views or sexual orientation, children need to be protected. Even criminals understand that. But when cross the line, watch out. Karma is a b%tch.

NaultD · Answer

Look at how you qualify your question "I am not saying he did not deserve it, but,". There's your answer. Criminals in prisons are the same products of society as you and I. So it's the same mental processes at work just executed in a different way hence why they are in prison.

2os4ngeles · Answer

Because it is a way for really shitty people to feel superior. "At least I'm not as bad as that guy."

Celtero · Answer

Because some crimes are justified. Molesting children is not.  Inmates are bored and honestly who doesn't want to inflict pain upon abusers of children?

Jenny4455 · Answer

Many inmates have children of their own. There are degrees of crime, even criminals have things they see as unacceptable. Most have their own 'morality' even if it's a warped one.

VaIiant · Answer

Many of the men in prison have children. Of all the crimes out there, molesting young children is the worst. And criminals realize that.

Pink2000 · Answer

Cause it’s sick and even some criminals know that...

DamnSam · Answer

Also people in prison got moral... you can steal from you grandmother, sell guns to gangs, fraud a bank, rob a bank... but you never touch a kid...

lovedejj_xo · Answer

I currently work in corrections in my state. This is not completely accurate in terms of getting killed. At least not where I am but I have heard stories. Working with sex offenders is hard. I know some prisons are corrupt but all staff are mandated to report issues. It’s considered to be the lowest of crimes even compared to murder not to me but to others. No one talks about the female sex offenders and there are plenty weirdly its men that people only talk about.

Twalli · Answer

Some inmates have kids, that despite being terrible people, they love. They think, he could have raoed my kid. They assume the way to prevent that from ever happening is to kill the people who might. I prefer castration as a punishment for rape.

_Jay_ · Answer

Because thats the lowest of low kind of crime and should be punished as such

jakeofalltrades · Answer

because even a place full of murderers an thieves know that hurting children is an unforgivable offense

SissyFrenchMaid · Answer

its to do with prison mentality. Not everyone of course but they have to live in close proximity with each other so some guys would be really disgusted and having to live with them too

Lunatic1 · Answer

Because even murderers and non-pedophile rapists are appalled by pedophilia and find it the worst crime imaginable. They think pedophiles don't deserve to live in prison, that they should have been executed immediately.

Jooblerone · Answer

Yeah there are some prison rules. And if people find out you are a kiddy fiddler. You will probably get shanked.

RHK36 · Answer

Unwritten rule amongst most criminals. You don't harm children and elderly.

Creepazoid · Answer

Good... why do I need 9 characters just to type in a comment? But good for him. I think it's just an unspoken rule that children are off limits.

Dchrls78104 · Answer

Maybe it's because of the universal contempt and abhorrence with which child molesters are regarded.

NewUser19 · Answer

Because most everyone hates rapists and pedophiles. Who would prey on the young and innocent in society? Takes a serious predator to do such a crime.

broncobryan · Answer

I think inmates kill pedophiles because they think they have righted a wrong. Got rid of a menace to society.

Bwyze · Answer

Pedophiles are most likely killed by inmates in prison... because for 1... pedophiles like little children... that's wrong

Babygirl_S · Answer

Because they steal the innocence and scar that person for life.

normalice · Answer

Inmates likely have the desire to kill everyone in the place. It's just that the guards don't extend any sort of protection to pedophiles, so..

slick041 · Answer

The are the worst type of predator they pick on the weak and vulnerable

RandomFinnishdude · Answer

They are open prey. No moral weight if killing one is the normal thought. They have no human value is the general thought

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