WHEN the South Coast Register featured a story about the musings of convicted rapist and cult leader William Kamm – the self-styled Little Pebble – the community outrage was immediate.
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People did not want the criminal’s views or ramblings out there in public.
That was exactly the motivation behind our decision to run with the story. Custodial punishment is meant to remove offenders from the community against which they committed crimes.
Giving prisoners access to social media puts them right back in the midst of the community – albeit virtually. In our community, this particular criminal caused so much hurt and ruined so many lives that when he was jailed, we expected him to be kept out of sight and earshot for the term of his sentence.
Thanks to this new prisoners’ social network, he is back among us, so his punishment is not complete.
Even more remarkable when one steels themselves to read his social media profile is that he shows no remorse, no shame, no guilt.
It is important that we are aware of this because his sentence will come to an end and he will be out in the community once more.
The alarming thing revealed in his social media profile is a complete absence of any recognition of his guilt. That failure to recognise his own crimes has prevented him from being released on parole.
The community needs to know that the individual who committed gross acts of depravity in the bogus name of religion cannot see his own sins and therefore represents an impending danger.
