[Blessings2You]

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.

[braingonebad]

My dh told me about this last night when he called. Absolutely horrible. There are some really sick people in the world, and yep, a lot in that area. But then, that's the 4th most populous state. And being warm attracts a lot of people - you can't be poor or homeless as easy where you freeze to death.

I will say this about Florida though, from watching the news even one month there, those cops are on it. They have crime, but they catch the criminals. Up here in OH, they have 10 times more unsolved cases, and it's not like it's because there is less evidence.

You might do the crime down there, but you are gonna get busted, and soon, and you're going to pay. And that is IF you live past the homeowner shooting your butt.

[braingonebad]

P.S.

I'm not for leper colonies either. Public stonings, sure.

[Kitty]

I saw it on TV last night.....her poor mother was just devastated. I can't imagine anything more horrible to have to endure.

We had a local news story here about sex offenders living in "tent cities" in some woods.....until the state discovered that they were camping on state owned property and gave them 24 hours to move.

They wanted to know where they should go. Can't be within a certain number of feet of a day care center, school, church, subdivision without being in violation.

Well, should have thought about that before you decided to break the law. I have no sympathy for these people. Go out into the middle of nowhere and pitch a tent. Punishment isn't meant to be pleasant or convenient.

[braingonebad]

Gives me an idea - a preschool, school, daycare and church on every corner!



Let em all go live on a garbage barge out in the bloody ocean for all I care. Then they can assault and kill one another.

[braingonebad]

Seriously, people steal cars or sell pot. No big deal. They're stupid, break laws. They get caught and pay for it, and maybe they can come away from prison and behave.

But I see no redeeming quality in someone who can injure a child like that. None. This is not a car accident, they did THE most horrific thing ON PURPOSE. And now that we have stuff like DNA, we know who did it beyond any doubt. When it's a case like that, when we are SURE, I see NO point in allowing a monster like that to live.


These people should never have the opportunity to do this again. and if they are alive, they get out and repeat. That's why we have Amber Alerts.