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Louis Gray
When I was in 1st grade, a 3 year old girl was kidnapped in Denver (our neighborhood). She was missing for a week, and was found, sexually assaulted, left behind in the pit of an outhouse at a state park, with chemical burns on her legs. Last night, I looked up the story and the case. A man was arrested, pled out to 10 yrs on lesser charges...
October 14
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and was released after 6 years. Turns out he moved to California and is a registered sex offender. His record doesn't say what he did... except for lascivious acts with a minor under 14. This event shook us enough that I'm thinking about it almost 30 years later. Should he be free? Should neighbors know exactly what he did? What do you think?
- Louis Gray
Oof. Why didn't the prosecutors go for a bigger charge? Was their case weak?
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
If by free you mean dangling freely from a hangman's noose, then yes.
- Todd Hoff
what Todd said, actually.
- Joe Silence
I don't know the statistics but I believe pedophilia is not high on the rehabilitation success rate. I am torn as I value life but just this exception. These child destroyers should be redeemed by becoming automatic organ donors.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
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Stephen, I was just looking this up on the web the other night after I was thinking about it. The most thorough story I found was here: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~coshs... (The Poland Kidnapping Case). Turns out, unsurprisingly, he did molest more children, and got caught again: http://neighbors.denverpost.com/viewtop...
- Louis Gray
Recidivism seems to be pretty high with sex crimes, especially pedophilia, so I think this is someone who shouldn't be out among the general public, at least not without close supervision. Also, I might be wrong, but I imagine the standard sentence in a case like this is probably longer now than it was 30 years ago.
- John (bird whisperer)
I think you'd see a push towards a harsher sentence today. The one thing that I have an issue with is the lack of specificity on what a sex offender has done. Some 18 year old with a 15 year old girlfriend gets on the list the same way someone who acts out violently as you described. The system was a good first step, but if you do a search on those Google Maps mash-ups that show you sex offenders it is an overwhelming the number of pinpoints that are within a five mile radius. I don't really care about that first guy, I care about that second guy. I really want to know about that second guy. I want his face, his name, and I want a text when a new person of that type shows up the vicinity of my children.
- Eric - seven eleven