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A Denver therapist wants to lock up sexual predators -- forever. But patients say the treatment is just making them bitter.

A A A Comments (4) By Julie Jargon Thursday, Dec 5 2002

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If his sisters could have their way, Rosberg would be able to see his nephews; they both say they trust their brother implicitly. "He could come here and live with us -- that's how much I trust him. In my and my husband's wills, Robert is listed as their guardian," Molina says. "I don't believe he's a pedophile. Maybe I'm naïve, but I don't believe that."

Rosberg's other sister rarely speaks to him.

Anthony Camera

Psychologist James Selkin says T.H.E. is overkill for most patients.

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He insists he'd never harm his nephews. "I'd cut my hands off with a chainsaw before I'd touch them," he says. But could Rosberg ever harm someone else?

His answer may be proof that he's come a long way since his early days of denial at T.H.E. "You have to be realistic. You can't say it will never happen again," he says. "But that's what I'm in treatment for."

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Bennie 05/23/2010 10:55:00 AM

Another comment is needed here. People such as Rosburg having both a psychiatric and behavioral problem, I find it quite unnecessary to use such words as "animal" or other demeaning words. I find it best to just analyze the problem and then describe the problem without somehow setting myself up on a pedestal as it seems as some people do who think that derogatory name calling is OK to do. It just tells me about the person who uses such unnecessary terms. Rosberg demonstrates a problem he probably was either born with or developed while a very young youth, and that without guidance in those early years his desires and propensity grew unmanaged. It should be looked at more through sadness than a holier than thou attitude, and should simply get people to understand that some people do need lifetime supervision. This we don't know about Rosberg since Colorado does not require psychiatric evaluations. Most therapist are not psychiatrists so their evaluations to me are somewhat meaningless.

Bennie 05/23/2010 10:44:00 AM

It is clear that Rosberg is a homosexual predator, and that he does groom young boys. Rosberg is clearly a person that needs the strictness of possibly lifetime supervision. He has a propensity to blame the younger person while he the adult takes no responsibility for his inability to control his homosexual urges for boys, or to take control of his own mind and behavior. Although he appears not to be a violent homosexual predator, he is nevertheless a predator because he set himself into situations in which he came into contact with trouble boys who may or may not have also been homosexual. Homosexuality is much like pedophilia in that the propensity to favor a certain age group or age range is a part of the person's core personality. It is probably safe to say that if Rosberg were queried about his homosexuality and the age range preference that he would have a hard time finding anything wrong, just as a pedophile has with their preference for children.

Bud "Alan" Jones 05/19/2010 3:06:00 AM

There should be no sympathy for the criminals...more like animals. They don't feel sorry, only that they got caught. Sex criminals cannot be cured, just hidden behind the walls of justice...just like Joyce Foster is attempting to do with her brother in law....with a LONG history of sex abuse.

Roger Freeman 05/19/2010 3:03:00 AM

Awkward and hopeless for the patients? How the feelings of the women and children or boys (Catholic Churches)who were raped, sodomized, tortured and even murdered....did they feel awkward and "hopeless?". Anyone that feels sympathy for a predator is sick...just like the people they feel sorry for.....