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throw away the key and the need to track dissappears....
good place to start though.
we don't need an implanted chip to track...but maybe we could shove these pedophiles ankle monitor up their azz...
Fla. Gets Tougher on Child Sex Abusers By DAVID ROYSE, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 12 minutes ago
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - With the father of a slain 9-year-old looking on, Gov. Jeb Bush signed legislation Monday that strengthens punishment and monitoring of child sex abusers.
The Jessica Lunsford Act requires those who prey on children under 12 to be sentenced to at least 25 years in prison and, if they get out, to be tracked for life.
The bill was quickly drafted after Jessica's body was discovered in March, and sped through the legislative process, pushed by outraged lawmakers.
Bush said Florida's sex offender laws are already tough, and "this bill will make our laws even tougher. It think it is right and just."
Bush hugged Mark Lunsford after signing the bill, telling him he was proud of his leadership in pushing for the measure so soon after his daughter's death.
Lunsford, wearing a tie with pictures of his daughter, said he has been working so furiously to channel his anger into the legislation he hasn't yet really grieved.
"I'm still lost, I haven't really dealt with it yet," Lunsford said after Bush signed the bill. He called the tie his "hug" from Jessica. "I'm still minus my kiss, but that's my hug."
Lunsford has been at the Capitol often in the last month urging legislators to crack down on predators.
It passed both the Senate and House unanimously and was sent to Bush on April 22, just over a month after the girl's body was found March 19. She had vanished from her home in sassa the previous month.
John E. Couey, a convicted sex offender who was living near Jessica, is charged with her kidnapping her from her bedroom and murdering her. Detectives say he confessed.
The Legislature passed the bill days after another sex offender was charged in the abduction and murder of 13-year-old Sarah Lunde of Ruskin. David Onstott allegedly told police he choked Sarah and dumped her body in a pond on April 10. Onstott was convicted of a sex crime in 1995.
The bill would require 25-year minimum prison terms for people convicted of certain sex crimes against children and lifetime tracking by global positioning satellite once they're outside of prison.
The bill also requires more monitoring of people convicted of molesting older children.
The new requirement only affects people convicted in the future, but it also has a provision that provides for GPS tracking of sex offenders who violate probation.
Advocates for the satellite monitoring say that in addition to warning authorities when a sex offender is someplace he shouldn't be — such as near a school — it also will allow for quick pinpointing of suspects if a child is abducted.
The new law also could open the door to the death penalty for more murderers, saying someone's status as sexual predator can be considered as an aggravating when judges and juries weigh capital punishment.
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throw away the key and the need to track dissappears....
good place to start though.
good point.. or we just could just execute them.
good point.. or we just could just execute them.
Why don't we execute theives and liars and those ers who cheat on their spouses too!?!
i would like for execution to be an option, and let the juries decide, that's for sure.
big difference between sex offenders and liars/cheaters. surely even you know this.
Where do you draw the moral line and who is to draw it? I'm not trying to defend pedofilia or pedofiles here, but studies have shown that it is a psychological disorder. So do we start executing every mentally deranged individual out there? Even priests?big difference between sex offenders and liars/cheaters. surely even you know this.
Just the ones that have sex with babies.
What a shame. Did he at least let his victims and their families tie the knot?you know I heard a story in florida where somebody was able to find a sex offender in there neighborhood. that person posted his name and address all over the neighborhood.the guy killed himself.
Last edited by The Ressurrected One; 05-03-2005 at 03:14 PM.
GPS monitoring is not without risks. The rate of false positives appears to breed complacency among LEOs responsible for monitoring sex offenders, with occasionally fatal results.
The nation's largest probation department strapped GPS ankle monitors on the highest-risk of those convicts, expecting the satellite receivers to keep tabs on where they spent their days and nights, and therefore keep the public safe.
Instead, agents are drowning in a flood of meaningless data, masking alarms that could signal real danger.
County probation officers are inundated with alerts, and at times received as many as 1,000 a day. Most of the warnings mean little: a blocked signal or low battery.
The messages are routinely ignored and at times have been deleted because there were so many, officers say.
Auditors making a spot check last fall found more than a dozen cases in which officers failed to notice that the devices were dead and probationers roamed unmonitored, some for weeks.
"If we keep getting false positives, we're not going to know the real one that means danger," said John Tuchek, a vice president for the Assn. of Probation Supervisors.
California's statewide system for monitoring sex offenders sends out as many as 40,000 alerts each month to state parole agents.
The consequences of ignoring such warnings can be disastrous.
In upstate New York, federal probation officers deluged with false alarms opted to disregard tampering alerts that cleared themselves within five minutes.
Because of that, no one noticed last year when a man facing child pornography charges broke the strap of his monitor and slapped it back together with duct tape. The man left the still-operational device at home, then traveled across town and raped a 10-year-old girl and stabbed her mother to death.
A U.S. District Court judge in New York released a report in April noting that probation officers in 12 of the nation's 94 federal court districts routinely ignored short-term alerts. Federal court officials ordered the practice stopped.
In Colorado last year, officers dismissed days of tampering and dead battery alerts from a parolee's GPS monitor. The man had slipped out of the device strapped to his ankle and killed a pizza delivery man and the state's corrections chief, authorities said. The fugitive was shot and killed days later while attempting to flee police in Texas.
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