I would say that an estimate of 5,000 perverts in Greater Miami is too conservative. The figure is closer between 6,000 and 8,000. We are very fortunate that there have been no more violent crimes in Miami involving them. The sex pervert or deviate is an individual who has reached the age of reason, yet knowingly disregards the idea of reproduction. They comprise a group that ranges from relatively harmless homosexuals to the fierce sadist who horribly mutilates and tortures his victim. No person is born a pervert. However, the sexual criminal almost without exception is the product of either bad heredity or poor environment in childhood. Many of these individuals are products of broken homes, emotional instability on the part of one or both parents, alcoholism, bickering and quarreling, or the lack of proper attention.

Studies of known sex deviates reveal that the pattern of the home in the individual’s youth has much to do with the shaping of their lives in the future. We further find that the deviate is found not alone among the poor and illiterate, but among the well educated and so-called bluebloods of society, but regardless of where found, the same factors of bad heredity and poor environment are at work. Experience has shown that the only reliable method of combatting the development of sex deviates is through education: Education of the parents to enable them to recognize the abnormal in their children: Education of the children to help them overcome character deficiencies and bad tendencies; Finally, education of officials responsible for the present inadequacies of our laws. It is most essential that we segregate those with abnormal tendencies from others, so as to help those who need help and protect the normal individual from association with the abnormal. Perhaps an attempt should be made to awaken within the individual, respect for God, parents, property, authority, and our fellowman in general.

These recent murders emphasize the dire lack and absolute need for state-controlled and financed facilities for treatment of such persons, so that they can be removed as a social blight and become useful citizens. Perhaps if we had a psychiatric hospital with proper facilities it might be the answer. Society and the state of the law to practice homosexuality, vided no form of should come seeking help. Florida have made it against but there has been prosuch persons, even if they It is only in private institutions for people with plenty of money that such treatment is available. If some action isn’t taken to treat these deviates, in the normal course of events we are bound to have more violent crimes involving them.