From the CNN article:
"A Georgia law passed last year prohibits registered sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of a school bus stop. That would have barred the younger Edenfield from living so close, but a pending lawsuit prompted a federal judge last year to block that provision from taking effect."
The Georgia ACLU filed that lawsuit because, they said, 10,000 registered sex offenders in Georgia would be forced to move because they live within 1,000 feet of a school bus stop. Outraged doesn't even begin to describe how mad I am about this. If that lawsuit had not been filed, forcing that federal judge to block the law, those devils would not have been allowed to live where they did and little Christopher just might still be alive and well.
The fact that "human rights groups" are more concerned about the rights of convicted sex offenders than about the rights of the most innocent and defenseless among us, our own children, is absolutely mind boggling to me. How do these people sleep at night??
I hope Christopher's parents sue the freakin ACLU.
From the Jessicamarielunsford site:
http://www.jessicamarielunsford.com/letter.htm
A Letter from a Sexual Offender Registrar...
"This is for you Jessi, and for each and every little angel that is hurting.
Ironically, my biological father was a Registered Sex Offender in Florida. I am a very lucky woman because I never met him, nor did he ever meet me. My mother fled what was becoming a domestically violent marriage before I was born. To leave a marriage such as that was unusual back in the early 1950s because of the stigma associated with leaving your husband, and being pregnant. She never laid eyes on him again. She did what came natural, she protected me. It is time we all, as a nation united, protect our children.
I am a fifty-five year old wife, mother of three and grandmother of four. I am a Sex Offender Registrar at a Law Enforcement Agency in North Carolina. I see Sex Offenders every day, one on one. They are mentally ill. They will always offend again. There is no cure.
The average citizen does not have a clue as to the convictions of these predators. On the average, the Sex Offenders will plead their cases and receive the minimum sentence of indecent liberties of a minor. This is nothing but a slap on the hand of a Sex Offender who molests a child, quite possibly after repeatedly molesting that child or numerous children before being caught. I read the specifics of these cases every day. Nine out of ten only receive the minimum sentence. The Sex Offenders are ordered to my office to be registered and we do not see them again, they only have to send their verification letter to confirm their address every year for ten years. This is a joke folks! Where do they go and what do they do for ten years?
..Let your imagination wander a bit, I promise you, they are offending and the little ones are suffering.
Why is the government waiting so long for the inevitable? These folks need to be institutionalized, preferably for life. Passing small law after small law year after year is not the solution. Ask the parents of the children who have died at the hands of the very ill Sex Offenders. We seem to have no problem involuntarily institutionalizing mentally ill family members for far lesser offenses. These offenders threaten our children, everyone's children. They need special care, they don't want to be this way, they cannot control it.... they are ill...some of them are dangerously ill and they are, and always have been, and always will be a constant threat to our society.
I don't think anyone would mind their taxes rising to help put these folks in facilities just for them, for their special illness. There are thousand of acres of land that the government owns all over this country. I could almost assure you that every state has government property that could be designated to build a facility or two for their state that could house these predators. We have state mental institutions, why not State Sex Offender Facilities. Conviction and sentencing would be easy...guilty and sentenced to a facility, end of discussion.
Sex Offenders are not and never will be productive citizens, but they could be productive in a government facility that utilizes their different skills for whatever a state may decide their facility will be utilized for, I don't know...just like prisons make license plates or bind books...whatever it takes, these folks need monitoring and help with the illness that takes over their thoughts and acts. At a facility such as I am suggesting their lives could be somewhat normal and it would be the compassionate thing to do for them, and our children will be safer. As it stands now, our children are the ones who are having their civil rights taken away...people that are Sex Offenders relinquish their own civil rights the second they touch a child inappropriately. Are you listening ACLU? If the rights of society's most vulnerable members are denied, everybody's rights are imperiled. This quote is from your website:
http://www.aclu.org/about/index.html
I believe that the children of this nation are the most vulnerable members of our society, anyone disagree?
I cannot believe that a program such as this cannot be implemented and implemented rapidly. Current Sex Offenders who are registered now would not be eligible for this program unless they offend again...and they will, and hopefully they will be caught, but they should be required to wear tracking devices for life. Sex Offenders who are currently in prison would be released wearing tracking devices for life or being institutionalized, this decision should be made by a panel of specialists before release. Sex Offenders who are waiting for conviction should be included in an institutional plan such as this, no question.
I understand this would need much planning but the specifics are pretty simple. Do the crime...do the time, for life. These are criminally ill people...they need help....our children deserve the best we can do...and I really do not see any other option....money should not be the deciding factor....ask any of the folks who's lives have been turned upside down by just one act of sexual offense...and there are hundreds of thousands of sex offenders....when will our government decide to take real risk free action?
Society needs to understand that these people are not going away...in fact, check the statistics....they are increasing daily.... Sex Offenders include teachers, clergy, lawyers, and doctors. Sex Offenders include fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, sisters, brothers, and your children...they are all someones child....In the last year alone I have registered at least one of each....... its my job....and I don't enjoy it...it is sad, it is disgusting.....it is heart wrenching......but it is very, very real. Wake up people, it is all of our responsibility to take care of this, if we don't do something soon and insist that major changes are needed we risk more and more children becoming victims, I can't live with that on my heart by not trying to make a difference, can you?
Why cant we stop being political and start being protective and practical? Protective for all parties involved, and being practical in the sense that thousands of sex offense crimes will be prevented instantly. It really is a very simple solution for a horrific problem.
Thank you for your time and consideration, I would most appreciate an acknowledgement from any of you who agree. This can happen if only a few of you will take it into consideration. You are the skilled lawmakers and you could fine-tune this opportunity into a perfect solution. You know where to go and what to do when our country is in a state of emergency. None of you could disagree that this is a state of emergency. This would need to be a National project and it can be
.it will be
.I have faith in each and every one of you.
Bless you all
.
Peg Meredith"
"Are you listening ACLU? If the rights of society's most vulnerable members are denied, everybody's rights are imperiled. This quote is from your website:"
isn't that children....not perverts:furious:
