Behind these stone walls, teenaged boys are
forced to tell and listen to stories about
their own brutality.
I'm a sex offender. I'm here for everybody's
sexual assault.
This is one of the sex offender groups at the
Getting State School near Austin.
It's one of the most intensive programs of its
kind in the nation.
Sex offender groups are, there's eight group
members, there's one therapist,
lasts for approximately an hour and a half,
five days a week.
We agreed not to identify this 16-year-old.
He says he started raping when he was 12.
His youngest victim was two.
I raped over 20 children, and I couldn't even
tell you how many times I raped each one.
Despite countless sexual assaults over several years,
Chances are good the young man will not rape
again when he leaves here.
About a quarter of the kids who go through our
program recommit some type of crime.
Twenty-five percent. Program director David
Walentis says that's considered exceptional.
The program requires the young criminals to
dwell on why they did it and what their victims felt.
I knew that it was hurting others. I knew it
was wrong. But I really didn't care.
The case of Michael Blair has shown us that
adult sex offenders,
even those who prey on children, can serve very
short prison terms
and get out with little or no therapy,
nothing even approaching what happens here at Giddings.
And you have to ask yourself, does that make sense?
This young man doesn't think so.
They'd be raping again, definitely.
Unfortunately, school officials say there are
enough therapists
to treat only a fraction of those who should be
in the sex offender group.
When the rest are released untreated,
research shows they are almost certain to rape
again, or worse.
Jim Douglas, Texas News 5.