My heart goes out to the family of the 7-year-old girl from northern Florida found murdered. The horror and grief is unimaginable.

I hesitate to post this and open up a can of worms, but I was just reading about this tragedy, and can't seem to shake the concept of 161 registered sex offenders living within a 5 mile radius of this little girl. 161!!

Now I know this is a highly populated area, so am taking per capita into consideration, and realizing that some offenders could be on the books from having had a 16 year old girlfriend as a 19 year old, and so on.

And I also realize that everyone has to live somewhere. I'm certainly not suggesting offenders be put in "leper colonies" or something. But...good heavens.