Hang ‘Em
I was listening to Glenn Beck yesterday and they were talking about sex offenders and he wondered out loud why there isn’t a one-strike rule for them. I agree after this morning’s news.
Missing Georgia Boy, 6, Found Slain
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) – A 6-year-old boy who vanished a week ago while playing near his trailer-park home was found slain Thursday after a registered sex offender and three other suspects stymied investigators for days with conflicting stories of the youngster’s fate.
Glynn County Police Chief Matt Doering said all four suspects would probably be charged with murder in the slaying of Christopher Michael Barrios. Doering said it was obvious the boy had been killed, but he would not say how and would not disclose how long the body had been there.
The body was found in a black trash bag among some trees and brush just 15 feet from a roadside behind the Glynn County Airport. A Department of Natural Resources game warden helping in the search, Cpl. Jesse Cook, said he and a co-worker stopped to investigate when they spotted tire marks where a car had pulled off the road.
Once they got out to look, they found the bag in plain sight.
“It was obvious,” Cook said. “But if you weren’t looking for it, you probably would’ve thought it was just a trash bag.”
Why didn’t the neighbors know they had a registered sex-offender, mentally “challenged” or not, living in their area?
George David Edenfield, a mentally slow 32-year-old man who lived with his parents across the street from the boy’s grandmother, was arrested and charged with violating his probation from a 1997 child molestation conviction, which prohibits him from contact with children. Police said he admitted playing a role in Christopher’s disappearance, but they would not be more specific.
I say hang ‘em.
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1Gidgee
wrote on 16 March 2007 at 16:07
I say your dammmm right, this happens much too often and something needs to change before it happens again!
2nick
wrote on 16 March 2007 at 19:54
Ok, lets go ahead and hang em. now what happens when someone can’t control his urges and so he molests a kid but otherwise wants to let the kid go. If we have a one strike law or even the death penalty, he may panic and kill the kid.
The hysteria over sex offenders is ignorance. Strange danger is an over played myth. Most abused kids are abused by someone they know and someone never caught. The great majority of registered offenders never repeat their crimes and not because of several laws. But what we are doing when we limit where they can live, and work, and make them live in fear is, they will stop registering. Then we won’t know where any of them live. And we don’t have the resources to go and find them.
3Jo
wrote on 16 March 2007 at 21:04
I spent 15 years in the legal system … hysteria my ass, these monsters once convicted should be hung outside the courthouse for all to see.
4rich
wrote on 17 March 2007 at 5:37
public lynching
5suzanne
wrote on 17 March 2007 at 8:26
It’s true that most children are abused or molested by someone they know. I still support the Megan’s Law. However we have to also worry about these perverts that the authorities know nothing about as well. I still think we need to go back to having all adult apartments and neighborhoods for these idiots. As a mother of a 14 year old girl and an 8 year old autistic son it’s scary to let your kids even play outside alone. The older one is not allowed to walk over to the dollar store half a mile away. She’s had a close call at another discount store in a low crime town. Thankfully she’s bee listening to what her father and I teach. I think child molesters need to be thrown in a swamp AFTER someone stirs up the gators and cottonmouths.
6another mom
wrote on 17 March 2007 at 12:56
no prison terms, why spend my tax dollars on these people? they are evil and evil has no place in this world. hang them and re use the rope. if you liberals want to allow them to live then have them in your house, oh but think about putting some kind of tracking system inside their bodies, the kind of device that explodes if they try to mess with it.
7Shelley
wrote on 18 March 2007 at 13:28
One of the posters said there should be a one strike rule for sex offenders. If that were the case, Michael Barrios would never have been born. His father is a registered sex offender, who apparently committed statutory rape 10 years ago, four years before little Michael was born.
Then if you say that all registered sex offenders should live x number of feet from school bus stops, where would that have put six year old Michael? In a Georgian swamp perhaps?
When is society going to get it that not all registered sex offenders are the same and that law enforcement needs to spend the money it has with the dangerous ones, not all, many like Michael B’s father who pose little or no risk? If you track, put GPS, force to register, etc all registered sex offenders, who end up only using half measures and kids get hurt.
Ironically, the child molester who killed or helped to kill the kid had moved from another area due to the law.
8nick
wrote on 22 March 2007 at 19:58
The great majority of sex offenders were themselves molested as children. This does not excuse what they do but it helps explain it. As for the lyncy mob mentality and hang em all beliefs, consider that there are thousands of recovering registered offenders and very, very few re-offend. Kids are more at danger of being killed by guns in the home, drunk drivers, second hand smoke than they are by a registered offender.
As for laws forcing registered offenders to move away from society, many will no longer register and may no longer get the treatment for addictions they have which makes us all less safe not more. If this guy had moved away from a bus stop, it would likely have made no difference.
We need for grandstanding politicians to attack this problem seriously instead of a knee jerk, fire from the hip stupidity they now possess.