Why Can’t We Protect America’s Children from Sex Offenders?

Posted on April 9th, 2005 by Christine.
Categories: Pissed Off & Proud of It.

Prosecutors even suspect that Jessica may have still been alive during the police’s second visit to the house, but the people living there still claimed they had no idea where Couey was.

They lied.

And while they didn’t know that John Couey was raping, asphyxiating, and burying little Jessica’s body within sight of her very own home, the fact that they lied to the police about a monster like that being in their midst, basically sealed Jessica’s sad fate. If investigators had been made aware that a convicted child molestor was living only a few houses away from where a little girl was abducted in the middle of the night… they would have focused their investigation on him and possibly made it to Jessica’s rescue.

But that didn’t happen.

Although we won’t know until the autopsy is completed, medical examiners think Couey may have even buried his 9-year-old victim alive. The whole thing makes my stomach turn.

Sex offenders have more than a 90% recidivism rate. That means 9 out of 10 will commit a similar offense once they’re paroled. And yet… we’re still paroling them. Why?

According to throwawaythekey.org (an organization that advocates tougher penalties for convicted rapists and child molesters), the average time a a child molester spends in prison is 3 years before being paroled. Currently, they estimate there are 2 million paroled sex offenders living in the U.S.

Why are there people in prison on drug convictions while people like John Couey and Alejandro Avila (who kidnapped and killed 5-year-old Samantha Runnion as she played in her front yard) are out casing the neighborhoods, preying on children?

Fuck rehabilitation. Fuck chemical castration. Fuck any solution that will allow these scumbags to ever step foot outside of a 6 x 9 cell.

The only solution to this is to keep these people in prison until they die there. Because then children in America can finally be safe.

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