In California today, a judge handed down the death sentence for the monstrous predator who kidnapped, sexually molested and asphyxiated 5 year old Samantha Runnion, who was snatched from an alley near her family's Stanton, California condominium complex on July 15, 2002.. Her mother's victim impact statement was one of the most heart breaking things I have ever heard. My heart goes out to Samantha's family, and the story only intensifies my anger toward those who allowed this man to walk free for so long. It is time for the laws to change. It is time that we demand that the federal government, along with our state governments form laws and enforce them that will keep these predators far away from our children. Too many of these cases are happening every day. We have to be able to protect the innocent from these would be monsters.
Reading the news today, I was taken back to see that the Florida Sex Offender registry was being criticized. Having had the chance to look at it previously, I had always found it rather informative, and well organized. The issue that many are having with it now wouldn't be noticed by the occasional browser on the site. Which makes it even worse. A review of the FSR has found some rather unsettling statistics: The News-Press analyzed the Florida Department of Law Enforcement database of 36,306 sex offenders and found: • 9,205 of them are incarcerated • 7,037 have run away or can't be found • 824 have been deported; and • 516 are dead. Of the 15,573 sex offenders listed as released and not on parole or probation, only 11,355 of those actually live in Florida. Sex offender registries can only be usefully, and only fully do what they where designed to do when they are updated, maintained and monitored continuously. When you are relying on the SO registries to monitors how safe your...
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