Some good news…
From Reuters:
President George W. Bush on Thursday signed legislation that will establish a national sex offender registry and try to make it harder for sexual predators to reach children on the Internet.
The legislation, called the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, is named for Adam Walsh, a 6-year-old boy who was abducted 25 years ago on July 27, 1981, and eventually killed.
The boy’s death prompted his father, John Walsh, to lead a long effort to seek greater protections against violence crime. He became host of “America’s Most Wanted,” a television show aimed at catching criminals.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children estimates that there are more than 560,000 registered sex offenders in the United States. About 100,000 are not registered or do not have up-to-date registrations.
The legislation will create a national sex offender registry, available to the public, to plug gaps in existing state systems and community notification requirements.
An offender who does not keep his registration up to date in any state in which he lives, works or attends school could face felony charges and up to 10 years in prison.
It will also create a registry for substantiated cases of child abuse or neglect to help law enforcement and child protective services.
Addressing concern about Internet predators and online pornography, the bill establishes education grants, and provides for 200 new federal prosecutors and 45 new computer forensic scientists to work on such crimes.
Well, it is a start and allot of states have adopted Jessica’s law, which I support. We have got to get off the rehabilitation gerbil wheel. Everything shows that sex offenders are not capable of rehabilition. We need to protect our children from these monsters and women from rapists.
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Dam straight! Brian
It’s good that they did this, but it doesn’t mean that liberal sex offender lovers in state and local government will use it. The whole touchy feely mentallity has to attacked and abolished. I work in a place where they house sex offenders. They live in nice cottages, surrounded by mountains but no fence. They have better furniture and get better healthcare than I do. What’s up with that? Oh yea they are “mildly mentally disabled”, very mildly. :blink_tb:
I’m waiting for a “desexing bill” … for men and women that molest children. Cruel and unusual? Guess that’s relative … the punishment should fit the crime … and discourage repetition.
Don’t tell PETA, but I think I saw that episode on Waltons Mountain and the technique w.s is talking about was preformed on a goat. LOL
I don’t think this episode was allowed a rerun and I don’t think these people should be treated better then a goat that is to be castrated nor should these people be allowed a rerun on Waltons mountain or Bonner’s mountain or any where else for that matter.
I was just in a discussion recently about this subject. It all started when I read this.
“it is about time…. that people in society stop getting thier rocks off by be-littleing sex-offenders…
this society is crazy… what has started as community notification has turned into a head-hunt… the best way to prevent offenders from re-offending is to let them have the same rights as people convicted of murder.
restricting where offenders can live is a stupid feel good law…they need to be stable and working… putting them on the black ball list will keep them homeless and without jobs… and society can say what it wants but if your a sex offender and do not own your own buisness and home, you are not gonna make it..
and god forbid if there is a person out there that takes a child for sexual gradificaton, with all these laws out there preventing life after sex conviction, I am afraid the offender will silence the only witness to his crime… is that what we want. ?? ”
I will spare you my responses. Just wanted to show how far gone some people are.
I work in the criminal justice field, and have worked with juvenile sex offenders in the past. Although I agree with the sentiment behind this legislation and I agree with the sentiments expressed on this site, the reality is that now, a large majority of cases that are referred for prosecution will be pled down to a lesser offense that will not require the registration. Information I heard today about this legislation indicated that it would require registration of offenders 14 y.o and older for 20 years. In the county in which I work, most of the attorneys that represent these juvenile s.o.’s would persuade them to plea to the charge and enter this county’s sex offender program, which is one of the top in the nation. Now, with required registration, those same attorneys will simply plead the case down to a lesser offense, and the s.o. will never receive any type of services, and receive very minimal punishments. How is that keeping society safe?
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