The only "witnessing" they should be allowed to engage in, is cart witnessing. Even then, they should be with an Elder.
Personally I feel anyone that harms a child should be killed, and doesn't deserve anything. So even this I think is too kind. Its a systematic way of giving them an audience. They shouldn't be enabled in any way.
Well, if he really did it
http://www.homefacts.com/offender-detail/COX00245011020160419/Waymon-Chandler-Ivery.html