OK, then the answer to the OP's question about 'What should John do?' is: Know the law—whatever it is wherever you are, John—and follow it. Heck, didn't you take a Social Work and the Law course?
No ethics component at all, just as the OP said. Somehow I thought there was more to it than that, seeing as the prof set it as a topic.
But now that's settled: Tell me you're not suggesting Dave and Mickey have some kinda Cornwall Perv Ring going in this imaginary scenario, just because I tried to widen the geography.
Gee, I thought that I had answered the question and not in a roundabout manner.
REPORT to the appropriate authorites, which would be the Police and/or CAS. When one of my subordinates approaches me with this dilemma or anything related, the legislation is provided, the appropriate calls are made, an investigation is initiated, actions are taken and there is a conclusion made. The client's confidentiality can be breached if there is a threat being made to harm self, someone else, public safety or commit a crime.
Let's get something crystal clear, Mickey is not a client, he is an inmate of a sex offender's step down unit operated by an agency such as John Howard or Salvation Army. The ultimate objective of the counsellor is to ensure the safety and security of the public at large, provide assistance to the inmate in their rehabilitation and report on progress or failure.
The cycle of abuse is difficult to stop, those that are abused usually have difficulties in life. Chemical or surgical castration is the only way to go, and even then there are some sadists that just enjoy inflicting sexual pain to others. They're wired wrong.
Someone said earlier that it's a small percentage that re-offend. Well that's spoken like an offender or a bleeding heart.
Hmmm, I wonder what the Staffords, Mahaffeys, Deviliers and Frenchs would have to say on the matter?
Then there's Jonathan Thimpsen from LaRonge, SK and Rina Virk from BC. The victims families of Picton and Olsen.
Ask these victim's families and friends if there's a dilemma!
I'll tell you alittle story. There is a woman in TO that parades around with a picture of her murdered son on a t-shirt in support of stop the violence. Her son was shot in 2001 and the case is unsolved, yet she regularly cries the blues about this tragic event in her life. What she negates to mention is that her dead son molested and sodomized two youngsters in the community and was locked up for this. Urban legend says his death was retribution by associates of the molested youngsters community and considered NHI. Street justice as her son was a young offender and didn't suffer.
Now, OJ, I didn't take anything that you said personally and I hope that you didn't debate is good. I've seen the abusers, the abused daily for 23 years, and I've had to be part of hirings, firings, internal investigations and work with external entities. There is no place for sex offenders that can keep the general population safe.
That DIPshit just the thought of his nonsense creeps me out.
Nazia best of luck on your assignment. I hope that you're never placed in the scenario of needing to act.
