And the hole gets deeper and we still dont know what to do with them and we dont even know what to call them....I say lets ask the Porno industry and Mr. Flint and Mr.Heffner and Hollywood and our neighbors........after all they are the 'experts'....... >
Hell, I'm inclined just to take care of 'it' myself......I say hormone treatment all around(male AND female, obviously).....I'm sure Planned Parenthood has an answer for this...... >
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
I had said previously that Jessica's Law was a residency restriction law the same as the county just passed. There are many good points of the law that should be adopted and as noted above many parts of the law that should be adopted according to the geographic area.
There are too many levels and layers regarding this entire sex offender issue. How do we determine who is really a sex offender, when there are 17year olds in jail for having consentual oral sex with a 15 year old. He will now be labled a registered sex offender for the rest of his life.
Before any sex offender law is voted on, they really need to take a very close look at what is considered a sex offender.
By ROBERT GAVIN, Staff writer Last updated: 5:27 p.m., Wednesday, October 31, 2007
ALBANY -- A city man is facing 25 years to life in state prison after being found guilty today of repeatedly molesting a 9-year-old girl.
Gary Alford, 49, was convicted after jurors deliberated for less than 2 1/2 hours in Albany County Court.
He had repeatedly victimized the girl between August 2006 and last March.
Alford faces a life sentence after being convicted under ``Jessica's Law,'' a new felony passed in June 2006 to toughen the penalties for violent sexual felonies committed against children.
The law -- also known as predatory sexual assault against a child -- calls for a minimum of 25 years in prison for the worst types of sex cases against children. It was inspired by the case of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, a Florida girl killed by a convicted sex offender in 2005. Before its passage in Albany, her father lobbied state lawmakers to enact the measure.
Alford also was convicted of first-degree criminal sex act, first-degree sexual abuse and first-degree course of sexual conduct against a child.
Alford was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney David Rossi. His lawyer was Albany attorney Peter Lynch.
He will be sentenced in January by Judge Thomas Breslin.
The law -- also known as predatory sexual assault against a child -- calls for a minimum of 25 years in prison for the worst types of sex cases against children
Who determines what the worst types of sex cases against children are? Does it depend on the age differential, the act itself, the relationship between the victim and perpetrator or if it is a repeat offense?
In opposing Schenectady County’s misbegotten sex-offender law earlier this year, we argued that it not only wouldn’t make the community safer, but would make it less safe by driving offenders underground, where authorities will have a harder time keeping track of them or seeing that they get treatment. As evidence we cited the notorious example of Florida, where 16 homeless offenders are now living under a Miami bridge, and Iowa, where the state prosecutors association has been trying to get legislators to repeal a state law that prohibits sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of schools, parks and other places where children gather. Now we can add the experience of California, where, in the year since a similar residency restriction took effect, homelessness among the state’s 67,000 registered sex offenders has shot up by 27 percent — and more than that in the last few months. While the Schenectady Legislature rescinded some of the worst features of the law, including a retroactivity provision, the 2,000-foot restriction on newly released sex offenders remains. The special task force created to review the matter should recommend getting rid of it. Failing that, the task force should at least recommend creation of a citizen review board to consider waivers for sex offenders who have good standing in the community and have been county residents without incident for 10 years, one of the ideas it was directed to consider.
BTW did anyone go trick or treating with their youngins'......or were we all too scared of the boogy-man/woman (gotta be PC) sex offenders???.....we went trick or treating to gather some sweet high fructose corn syrup treats from strangers homes, (after we tell our kids-'dont talk to or take candy from strangers', from the day they are born).....we went and, well,,,,boy was I scared,,,there were sex offenders all over, pedophiles galore......please government do something for me,,,,I just cant take care of my kids anymore....I,,I,,,I just cant.......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
I remember your votes this past summer in favor of the Schenectady County SORR laws (Sex Offender Residency Restrictions) — both their initial passage and your decision, upon reflection, to confirm the basic residence ban and establish a horse-behind-the-cart Sex Offender Council to study the issue. You say “Schenectady is Moving in the Right Direction,” but “Sex Offenders Keep Moving” is not a legislative record that should make you proud. Frankly, there is nothing else that comes to mind when I try to figure out just what you’ve done for our County over the past four years that entitles you to re-election.
Reluctantly, I’ve concluded that your SORR votes are reason enough to withhold my vote on Tuesday, as you seek re-election to the County Legislature, and I hope other Democrats will join in — showing up at the voting booth but sending our silent message of “no confidence” and “No thanks for SORR.” I’m probably not willing to vote for your Republican opponent, but I will not pull the lever under your names on Election Day.
And, I conclude:
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I hope this Just Say No to SORR protest will give Vince, Mike and Gary some ammunition the next time they need to defend positions opposed to the high-handed methods and low-EQ policies of their leader Susan Savage. Let her know you want a new leader and want our elected leaders to start acting like Real Democrats.
A similar no-vote goes out to Mayor Stratton for his gung-ho proclamation that he would start enforcing the SORR the day they became effective.
Nice to see you making this statement against the SORR and posting it to be certain it is public. I am making the same statement in my district for county legislators. Jasenski voted in favor of the law and after spending an hour with Bob Godlewski a couple of weeks ago, he still did not appear to have or want to share his opinion on the law. I am lucky to have two legislators, Lazzari & Santabarbara who are against it.
Stepfather, friend held in murder, rape of girl, 9
CASSVILLE, Mo. — The stepfather of a 9-year-old girl found dead in a hillside cave and his friend were each charged Saturday with murder and rape. Rowan Ford vanished while in her stepfather’s care last weekend, and authorities early on had said he would not explain a lengthy absence that night from the family’s house. Her disappearance led to an intensive search by dozens of officers from three counties and 50 FBI agents and specialists. The girl’s body was found Friday in a cave in a remote part of McDonald County, about 10 miles south of the village of Stella, where she lived with her mother, Colleen Spears, 44, and her stepfather, David Spears, 25. Barry County Sheriff Mick Epperly said the stepfather’s friend, Chris Collings, 32, confessed to authorities about the slaying. Based in part on Collings’ statement, the affidavit Epperly sent to the prosecutor alleges the men took Rowan from her home to a camping trailer where Collings lived in Barry County and each raped the girl. One of them strangled her with a cord, though it wasn’t clear which man, Epperly said.
Well it just goes to prove that the stupid 2,000' rule is bogus!
Mr. Spears and Mr.Collings were a family member and a friend! Now, because there was a murder, their sentence will clearly be harsher, but if it were rape alone, they would be let out in a few short years and would have to register as a sex offender. IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Ga. Court Overturns Sex Offender Law By GREG BLUESTEIN Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA - Georgia's top court overturned a state law Wednesday that banned registered sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of schools, churches and other areas where children congregate. "It is apparent that there is no place in Georgia where a registered sex offender can live without being continually at risk of being rejected," read the opinion, written by presiding Justice Carol Hunstein.
The law had been targeted by civil rights groups who argued it would render vast residential areas off-limits to Georgia's roughly 11,000 registered sex offenders and could backfire by encouraging offenders to stop reporting their whereabouts to authorities.
State lawmakers adopted the law in 2006, calling it crucial to protecting the state's most vulnerable population: children.
While many states and municipalities bar sex offenders from living near schools, Georgia's law, which took effect last year, prohibited them from living, working or loitering within 1,000 feet of just about anywhere children gather - schools, churches, parks, gyms, swimming pools or one of the state's 150,000 school bus stops.
It also led to challenges from groups like the Southern Center for Human Rights, which argued that it would force some offenders to live in their cars or set up tents or trailers in the woods, and undermine other efforts to keep track of offenders.
The Georgia Supreme Court ruling said even sex offenders who comply with the law "face the possibility of being repeatedly uprooted and forced to abandon homes."
It also said the statute looms over every location that a sex offender chooses to call home and notes while the case in question particularly involves a day care center, "next time it could be a playground, a school bus stop, a skating rink or a church."
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