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.
I think that we should stop this before it starts. Often these ‘men’ were abused as children, that doesn’t mean that I condone in anyway what they have done . How do we protect children from what sometimes goes on in their families?
Stopping abuse within a family is much harder than stopping pedophiles who’ve already been convicted of a crime. I won’t pretend to know what happened in these pedophiles’ past to make them want to rape and murder children, but I’m sure it was bad. Quite frankly, however, I don’t care. There are lots of people who grow up in homes where they are abused and they don’t become murderers. If we don’t know how to prevent some men from becoming child-killers, at least we can prevent them from doing it again once they’ve been caught doing it once.
Child molestors and rapists do not get better. They deserve live in prision without parole for molesting unless they attempt to mutilate, beat, or attempt to kill their victims. Then we need the death penalty and no keeping them on death row for years of appeals.
Linda
I couldn’t agree more.. I don’t even care that they might be innocent… it’s fine with me if we kill off 95 guilty people and 5 innocent…. that seems like an very acceptable ratio to me!
btw I’m refering to the people on death row that Christine is going to try and save.
I’m not sure what Christopher was referring to… I am certainly not against capital punishment… and I’m not opposed to child molestation being a capital crime. In the case that I mentioned above, he committed murder too… so it is a capital offense in Florida. Did I ever mention saving people on death row?
My opinion is that if they’re never going to get out anyway… why keep them in for life so they can drain the system of resources? I have heard, but have not confirmed for myself, that it is more expensive to execute someone than to keep them on death row for life. I don’t know if that’s the case. If it is, then I think we should do whatever is cheapest… these assholes have already cost society enough as it is. I do know that the death penalty is not a deterrent… which makes sense. These people are sick and the fact that they might be executed if caught doesn’t stop their need to brutalize innocent children. We should at least keep them in for life on their first offense, or execute them.
Well if we were efficient with our executions.. like they get 1 appeal within 5 months and then they are executed that would make the system better.