Oprah--Thank You!
Finally, someone is making sense. Today on the Oprah show Oprah stood up and said we need to put sexual predators in prison for life after the first time! Yes! That is exactly right! I want you to know that I have been asked to sponsor a mandatory minimum law of 25 years to life after the first conviction of violent sexual crimes.
Let's examine that idea. Joseph Duncan was sentenced to 20 years in Washington state, but only served a meager 12 years. Thanks a lot Washington state DOC (Dept. Of Corrections) for letting out one of the worst child molesters and child murderers in United States history. You owe the Groene family an apology and your representative should beg forgiveness!
Would 25 years have saved the Groene family? No! Even if Duncan had served the entire amount of time Duncan still would have been let out and the Groene family would still have been slaughtered! Precious little Dylan would still have been sodomized and his body burned to ash. Can you image the terror this little gift of God went through?! Can you image if it was your child?
I do not and never will support a mandatory minimum law and I won't compromise my stance just because I think it might help us to take one step back in passing stronger sentencing laws for violent sexual predatory crimes. In other words, I do believe that we can pass this tough law and we don't have to take steps backwards to get there.
The ONLY solution to this out of control epidemic is putting child rapists, child sodomizers, child molesters and kidnappers in prison for life after the first conviction.
Please write your state legislators today and demand a one strike law for these type of criminals.
Let's examine that idea. Joseph Duncan was sentenced to 20 years in Washington state, but only served a meager 12 years. Thanks a lot Washington state DOC (Dept. Of Corrections) for letting out one of the worst child molesters and child murderers in United States history. You owe the Groene family an apology and your representative should beg forgiveness!
Would 25 years have saved the Groene family? No! Even if Duncan had served the entire amount of time Duncan still would have been let out and the Groene family would still have been slaughtered! Precious little Dylan would still have been sodomized and his body burned to ash. Can you image the terror this little gift of God went through?! Can you image if it was your child?
I do not and never will support a mandatory minimum law and I won't compromise my stance just because I think it might help us to take one step back in passing stronger sentencing laws for violent sexual predatory crimes. In other words, I do believe that we can pass this tough law and we don't have to take steps backwards to get there.
The ONLY solution to this out of control epidemic is putting child rapists, child sodomizers, child molesters and kidnappers in prison for life after the first conviction.
Please write your state legislators today and demand a one strike law for these type of criminals.
posted by I stand with Israel! at 9:47 PM
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The govenor of New Hampshire has asked for stronger punishments for sex crimes, and they are exploring a 25 year minimum sentence for a first offense. People are complaining already, because the harsh sentence comes into play when the prosecutor decides what charge to make. This they claim, unfairly takes the sentencing options out of the judge's hands. Currently, under New Hampshire law, the longest possible minimum sentence a judge can hand down for any sex crime including the equivalent of Washington's 1st degree rape, is 10 years. 10 years is the longest possible minimum sentence that can be recieved for any sex crime in New Hampshire. They also think that GPS monitoring devices will make a difference. We've tried that in Spokane, and it doesn't work. They just throw the device in the garbage and take off when they decide to go fugitive. GPS monitoring devices only work for petty criminals that have a lot to lose.
Sex offenders cannot be cured. That is a well established fact. All treatment does, is it tries to convince the sex offender to control his own deviancy, and then trusts him to do so once he's released. Any of life's normal stresses, such as losing a job, or getting divorced, can cause even a well meaning sex offender to slip and re-offend.
It is also a well established fact that post release monitoring and neighborhood and community notification laws have had no effect at all on the recidivism rates of sex offenders.
The idea of a harsh punishment on the first offense (20 to 30 years) that releases the offender back into the public, is probably one of the worst ideas of all. This scheme would work fine for car thieves, burglars, and drug dealers, but car thieves, burglars, and drug dealers are not sexually attracted to their crimes. If a car thief gets out of prison and steals another car, our insurance premiums can replace the car. The future victims of released sex offenders cannot be replaced. A sex offender's crime cannot ever be undone. A sex offender never really repays his debt to society.
The bottom line is this: with a 25 year sentence and then release, you will have 22 year old sexual psychopaths going in, and 47 year old monster freaks of nature that have been schooled in all of the criminal arts coming out. If you can't let them out after 5 or 10 years because they will re-offend, it is totally naive to think that letting them out after 25 years will make a difference. The only difference it will make, is it will make them worse.
The only solution that will work, is to just leave them in prison until they die. It's not cruel or unusual to protect the most innocent and vulnerable members of society, by locking away the worst of the worst of the criminal spectrum. We must begin to place a higher value on the lives of the innocent, and a lower value on the freedom of the guilty.
AMEN! THANK YOU OPRAH!!! You have now started to bring light to the this Nation's epidemic...we have to get the understanding out and get the public to change the laws!!!
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