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Louis Theroux: A Place For Paedophiles
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Louis Theroux: A Place For Paedophiles
August 10th, 2009
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Louis has gained access to Coalinga Mental Hospital in California, which houses more than 500 of the most disturbed criminals in America, convicted paedophiles. Most have already served lengthy prison sentences, but have been deemed unsafe for release. Instead, they have been sent here for an indefinite time. Spending time with those undergoing treatment, Louis wrestles with whether he can ever allow himself to believe men whose whole history is defined by deception and deceit.

Louis Theroux: A Place For Paedophiles, 9.0 out of 10 based on 74 ratings
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  • Angie

    Difficult and highly disturbing subject matter indeed. What these men have done is vile and incomprehensible, but as it happens i agree with what one of them alluded to when he said its not so much a mental health issue, and that mental health help won’t help, whats happened is criminal. and that it is, murderers i’m sure aren’t incarcerated after they’ve served their sentence into a warehouse to receive treatment that doesn’t determine whether they’ll ever get out. though at the same time i agree the majority of communities if not all would feel very uncomfortable to be at a close proximity to any or one of these men. From what i can see the state is thus trying to create a happy medium, however the blip in all of this is that human rights are inevitably affected. No-one can ever be satisfied. the question that remains i suppose is which is better universally? and perhaps the coalinger mental hospital is from a utalitarians point of view a form of doing the greatest good. 

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  • Joshua Bailewy

    No need for any left-wing ethics. Paedophiles of all forms are scum and should be dealt with before they deal with an innocent child.

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  • Guest

    They all fit the typical paedophile stereotype, does this have something to do with the fact that they are attracted to children? Have they been homosexuals all their life and then turned to children because no one else wanted them? I highly doubt they will ever be ‘cured’ or not relapse if they got the chance if/when they get out.

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    • http://www.facebook.com/BrunoSweetdog Bruno Sweetdog

      agreed, its quite disturbing! Louis is such a daring and inspirational investigator!  soo inspirational I wrote a song about it!

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRxxe0tO61c&feature=channel_video_title

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    • fifi

      Wow…someone really needs to educate themselves. Being gay has as little to do with being a paedophile as being straight does…. or were you being sarcastic…it’s hard to tell on the internet sometimes…

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  • guest

    As soon as this ended I was relieved it was difficult watching this knowing what these men have done. The conclusion to this was distressing, I wouldn’t trust anyone of these men to be outside and be around anyone’s children. I don’t know why these people do this but this facility seems like its still a work in progress. I don’t think these men are mentally ill, if this perversion was not something they wanted but knew was wrong, that still doesn’t take away the fact that they still did it knowing it was wrong, that makes it a criminal act. As a mental facility, it really fits the bill. It does look like a looney bin. They have baseball, carpentry, art room and celebrating every other festive day on the calender year? Please, they’re not retarded, it’s like another universe in there. I can understand why that man would prefer jail over that facility, in jail you know your place, there’s ethics among inmates and wardens, you know if someone crosses the line there will be consequences. In there everyone looked like they were on gasoline. Erh, I’m feeling a lot of negative energy over here, do you maybe want to take a few deep breaths?! These people have no reason to be treated like they’re mentally ill, they’re criminals.

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  • redwhiteandblue

    What is there to understand? These parasites hurt the most vulnerable among us, and i for one am not impressed with this documentary at all . I do not care that they are locked up and hope they stay so, for the protection of all society.

    I was really unimpressed with that guy at the beginning, who said he was not sure what was legal,HUH?  So, it is okay to hurt a child if it has not been made a law yet or your not sure if it is legal or not!?!?!

    Also the comment, i am not trying to judge you here, HUH? Have we become so delude we are not able to judge that child molestation is wrong and that your bad person if you do this?  I did not see all that much anguish on anyone’s face, Mr.Theroux even commented that he believe some of the men to be sincere? O really? Does he want them living near his family, in contact with his children? Would he count on their sincerity then? There is a reason people do not want them to live in their neighborhoods.

    Sorry this one was pointless. There are child molesters? They get locked up? Really? I did not know! Thank goodness for Mr.Theroux!

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  • guest

    LOUIS YOU ARE SO HOT…MARRY ME!

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  • homi k bhabha

    Love the Joanna Newsom track at the end “oh my love , oh it was a funny little thing..”

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  • Sconezeta

    a few things: First the name of this institution seems a bit odd. I guess it reminds me of something sexual for some reason and I find it oddly named. Also, I heard the argument one inmate mentioned for judgment as a criminal vs. mental crime. From the persons interviewed I would have to say it is indeed a crime they cannot seem to control and thus must be viewed as an mental disorder. I mean if people are getting castrations holy shit lol. By the way I believe that guy may truly be on the way to some type of control of his problem but who knows. The place looks first rate and about as good as it could be for incarceration… Why the majority (70%) don’t want treatment to try to face their issues is amazing? Lastly I hate government programs and $$$ spent on lost causes but I can’t imagine letting these people loose on society again… catch 22 I guess and this seems like the most humane way to deal with them.

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  • phdstudent

    I am APPALLED at the amount of money spent on these people. 200K a year?!?! Chemical castration costs much less. That 200K should be used to pay for the victims therapy.

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  • Guest

    I certainly agree that Paedophiles should in some way taken care of (taken care like treatment, not killing them :) ). However, the thing of sexual orientation is a tricky question. In my opinion people doesn’t choose sexual orientation. Being straight or homosexual isn’t a choice. Isn’t that the case of paedophilia then? Homosexuality was once also seen as a mental disorder, and homosexuals were sent to mental hospitals. I think paedophilia is an act of crime and is no way okay, but not a mental disorder crime. Sexual acts should be something done with mutual consentement, and where both actors understand what they are doing.

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  • darwind

      Keep these creeps locked up forever or death penalty or castration.  No mercy for these monsters.

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  • Stuart David

    Interesting. I can’t imagine that some of those people ”should”  ever get out but while they are there I don’t think they should be forced to endure the demeaning behaviour that resulted, for example, when Mr. Price gave an honest answer to a question. He went on to explain the source of his feelings toward that issue and was interupted rudely by the clinician who had apparently forgotten that she had asked a question. That whole episode came full circle when “he” apologized later for an incident that was her fault. The goal there was to simply dominate the man right or wrong.     

    Hard to believe too that the film maker “believed” the guy who said he wasn’t turned on by the boys in tights. That photograph was totally provocative.

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  • Guest

    Pedophilia is in no way close to homosexuality. Homosexuality is not chosen, but it is between two consenting, mature adults and doesn’t hurt anybody. Pedophiles prey on children, who are not mature enough to consent to anything sexual and are thus victims of their offenders’ “sexual orientation”. To liken homosexuality to pedophilia is sickeningly false and only shows ignorance. 

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  • Maria

    It’s quite sad that they have better living conditions and medical care than so many innocent people who lost their jobs and homes and now live in tents all across the USA.

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