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Show Modern Science Unveils Mind Behind Sex Crime Telegram Series Offers Facts on Morals Offense to Help Control by Public teitar Ml! Tale te nr la s eri f arttrfM to Se pufcluhrS Hi T Trlrerwn la the eIMf that Melt Luke t'lly mil torani? hreualnt with ene hIM "f sahtlr rMmr hi erarr to store him Mnerr frrlmllftc eehtrel a4 thee make ewr Mreete aae store' Se eels for wwntn m4 chilSrea. Greater understanding of what lies behind fiendish attacks on women and children, what prompts otherwise normal average citi-gent citi-gent to shock the community with acts of indecent exposure and similar offenses, is the first important step toward combating or controlling this type of crime in Salt Lake City. Psychiatrists and law enforce-' Bient officers are agreed that such acta spring from twisted brains. Oftentimes ths perpetrator Is no more morally responsible for his acts than a totally insane person is for his. Thus the problem of criminal immorality im-morality becomes a combination problem requiring ths best effort! of police, the courts and the medical medi-cal profession. The certainty of detection, arrest from Intelligent or brilliant Individuals. Indi-viduals. Insanity simply means that the brain which any person possesses pos-sesses has become disordered. . Some cases of insanity are Curable Cur-able because the individual had a properly organised brain to begin with. Dementia should not be confused with insanity. A "dement" is s person who has lost all or a portion of his reason through circumstances MAXIMUM PENALTY GIVEN GUST Tha maximum statutory term, not to exceed five yean in state prison, waa imposed Saturday upon Leonard Gust, 141 East Sixth South street, by District Judge Oscar W. McConkie. Tha JS-year-old defendant had been convicted by a Jury of committing aa indecent assault upon a 1-year-old Salt Lake City girl on August J. and punishment with its resulting public embarrassment, will deter some offenders. In other words fear will "cure" them after the first offense. If the problem could be solved that simply, however, there would be no problem. Fear alone deters only the least aggravated cases. A maddened brain, reveling under ths sensations of a wild Impulse, knows no fear, or at least lets sensualism outweigh fear. For the purposes of this, series, classification of tha various types of mentality must be considered. There are the morons. A moron Is an Individual whose general ability abil-ity to attain and absorb, retain or utilise knowledge Is below the general gen-eral average. Scientists say that a man with a mentality of a child between ( and 12 years old Is a moron. An imbeolle ts a person with a mental age between I and 6 years. An idiot, the lowest, ranges mentally mental-ly from aero to 6 years. Scientists arbitrarily divide the feeble-minded population of the world into morons, Imbeciles and idiots. Some feeble-minded persons are guilty of attacks on women and children not only because they are abnormal, but because they lack the Intelligence to control adult impulses. im-pulses. They have only children's inhibitions. An Insane person can have sprung from any of these classifications or 4 such as advanced age or disease. He Is like a rich man deprived of his weslth. He hsa become senile. There dre msny forms of dementia, de-mentia, however, which In their proper designations refer to kinds of insanity, such aa dementia prae-cox. prae-cox. In tha advanced age group may ba found cerebro arterio sclerotica, men whoss condition is brought on by hardening of the arteries of the brain. Men in this group are sometimes some-times guilty of ravishing 'teen-age children. Then there are epileptics. Psychiatrists Psy-chiatrists say that on occasion thsy are the craftiest, most cold-blooded and dangerous type of sex maniac. Outwardly normal, and many of them never subject to convulsion or "fits" popularly associated with apt. lepsy. A certain percentage ascspe detection after committing horrible crimes. Paschal L. Boyer, the rotund meat buyer who alew four persons near Bountiful In 1934 and died in the state mental hospital, was considered consid-ered an epileptic. Syphillitic mental cases Include Individuals whose disease has attacked at-tacked tha brain and resulted in actions considered criminal. Then there are schisophrenics. Schixophrenia lncludea some forms of dementia and la usually used to designate those whose first symptoms symp-toms sre noticed about tha ags of puberty dementia praecox. |