Ashleigh Hall - befriended a sex offender, Peter Chapman, on Facebook and was subsequently murdered by him.
There are thousands of registered sex offenders and they are supposed to notify the police where they are living and meet with police supervisors regularly to discuss what they are doing and to try and establish if they are a risk to anyone. I am aware of one case where a sex offender has refused access to the police and the courts have agreed that it is an infringement of his human rights to have the police calling at his home. He refuses to go to a police station and so his supervising officer meets him once a week in his car in a street, 2 miles from his home. How this can have any influence on his offending I don't know.
If you want to eliminate the risk of sex offenders re offending keep them behind bars until you are sure and then we won't have to worry about ridiculous monitoring in the community, which is designed to empty the prisons and give the public confidence, but in reality achieves almost nothing.
PS. I see the former Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith has had the painters in again. Does this mean we can expect another invoice for her husbands porn?
The essential lack of cure is down to vested interests in incompetence and the ease through which childish excuses can be passed off as 'mature'. The legal logics are appalling. The paedo's human right is to be out under supervision as opposed to being banged up. His option is to revert to jail until his sentence is through. I seriously think much court business should be done under Internet scrutiny to stop this kind of decision. Never mind judges second guessing what the intent of legislation is - let's move to public interpretation.
ReplyDeleteI had to interview sex offenders who wanted to go to college...most of them were happy to talk to me because they wanted to take classes. A few were rude, tried to tell me they were innocent etc. I told them they had already been to court and it wasn't my job to judge them...my job was to make sure they didn't do bad things at the college.
ReplyDeleteOne refused to answer my questions...and he was shocked when I barred him from taking classes....then he said he was going to sue me. I gave him a copy of the law and told him how he'd make his case in court....
Its an issue world wide. Here in the states we are no better at 'monitoring' and violent offenders slip through the cracks all the time. I honestly think for some crimes they should just take off the penis and female offenders should be stitched shut or something. Harsh maybe but what some people do is sickening, especially knowing they will do it again when given a chance.
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