How to pronounce “offend”(noun) in English

to this defense lawyer and we were talking about just this: "Do you feel, when you defend somebody--. Say you defended a rapist and he gets out and here-offends." Serial rapists are run of the mill, you know. And I asked him, “Would you feel any culpability, would you feel any guilt?" And he said, "No, not at all." Andhe said, "When you get to know these people, you start seeing them as people and you don't say 'Well, he's a rapist,'--you say, 'He's Joe and he comes from this or that background