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May 30, 2008
Hell Is For Children part III Megan
By chris rice
Child rapist & what we should do with them.
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*Sixty-seven percent of all victims of sexual assault reported to the participating law enforcement agencies were juveniles (under the age of 18); 34% of all victims were under age 12.
*One of every seven victims of sexual assault reported to the participating law enforcement agencies were under age 6.
*The estimated number of violent crime offenses in 2006 was more than 1.4 million (1,417,745) offenses, an increase of 1.9 percent over the 2005 estimate.
*The chances that your child will become a victim of a sex offender is 1 in 3 for girls & 1 in 6 for boys.
*63,000 persons are required to register in California as sex offenders.
22,000 other offenders are not registered, but are known to law enforcement.
On Friday July 29, 1994, 7-year old Megan Nicole Kanka disappeared. With the promise of a puppy, her neighbor, Jesse Timmendequas, lured her into his home where he raped, strangled & suffocated her. Her body was stuffed into a plastic toy chest & dumped in a nearby park. Megan had been killed by a two-time registered sex offender who lived across the street from the Kanka home & was sharing his house with two other convicted sex offenders, he met in prison.
Megan Should Still Be Alive
News Item:
Execute Child Rapists
I would really love to see this happen all over the country….
Child rapists could face execution
A measure allowing the death penalty passes committee. It faces a likely fight in the full Senate.
By Jessica Fender
The Denver Post
Colorado could put child rapists to death under a bill that won a Senate committee's approval Monday and would put the state on par with just five others that allow the execution of such sex offenders.
Prosecutors could try for the death penalty in cases in which rape victims are 12 or younger, where DNA evidence is present and where the perpetrator has been previously convicted of a sex offense against a child.
The harsher sentences might run afoul of the Constitution — the U.S. Supreme Court will weigh in on the issue this year — and could discourage victims from reporting abuse by relatives, according to critics, who include victims' rights advocates.
But some of the most terrible offenders simply deserve death, said sponsor Sen. Steve Ward, R-Littleton. He referred to a Louisiana man who raped his 8-year-old stepdaughter and became the first such offender in the nation to receive a death sentence.
"The crimes we're looking at are particularly heinous," Ward said.
Colorado public defenders, who oppose the bill, originally estimated that it would make about 260 people a year eligible for the death penalty. It was unclear what an amendment, which limits the bill to repeat offenders, would do to that estimate.
In Louisiana, the one state that has sentenced child rapists to death, prosecutors have made capital cases of only two out of 180 eligible cases.
Constitutional challenges immediately followed the first of those two sentences, and the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule by June whether death is cruel and unusual punishment for felons who have not taken a life.
Senate Judiciary Committee members voted 5-2 to send Senate Bill 195 to the chamber's appropriations committee, which will weigh its as-yet-unknown price tag.
Current punishment
Critics of the bill say that current sentences, which in many cases amount to life in prison, are harsh enough.
Colorado sends child rapists and other serious sex offenders to prison for between four years and life, with the duration largely left to a judge's discretion.
Of the 1,200 people now incarcerated for the most serious sex crimes, only eight have received parole in the past decade, said Doug Wilson, Colorado's chief public defender.
Colorado joins Alabama, Missouri and Mississippi in seeking death for child rapists this year.
Montana, Oklahoma and South Carolina have passed similar laws since 2006, and Louisiana and Texas both approved such legislation in the mid-1990s, said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Death Penalty Information Center.
Get-tough attitude
As high-profile cases such as the rape and murder of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford of Florida — namesake of the popular Jessica's Law — draw attention to crimes against children, many politicians have grown eager to get tough on offenders, Dieter said.
The climate, he said, is tilting toward harsher penalties such as lifetime monitoring and housing restrictions for sex offenders.
"It's hard to vote against being tough on such offenders," Dieter said. "And whether the death penalty makes sense or not is sometimes obscured."
The number of inmates on Colorado's death row — one — ranks among the lowest in the nation of prisoners sentenced to death. The state last executed an inmate more than a decade ago.
Ward said that although his bill garnered bipartisan support in committee, it will likely face a fight this year.
Ward said, "I think it's an important discussion for us to have."
By Jessica Fender
The Denver Post
Colorado could put child rapists to death under a bill that won a Senate committee's approval Monday and would put the state on par with just five others that allow the execution of such sex offenders.
Prosecutors could try for the death penalty in cases in which rape victims are 12 or younger, where DNA evidence is present and where the perpetrator has been previously convicted of a sex offense against a child.
The harsher sentences might run afoul of the Constitution — the U.S. Supreme Court will weigh in on the issue this year — and could discourage victims from reporting abuse by relatives, according to critics, who include victims' rights advocates.
But some of the most terrible offenders simply deserve death, said sponsor Sen. Steve Ward, R-Littleton. He referred to a Louisiana man who raped his 8-year-old stepdaughter and became the first such offender in the nation to receive a death sentence.
"The crimes we're looking at are particularly heinous," Ward said.
Colorado public defenders, who oppose the bill, originally estimated that it would make about 260 people a year eligible for the death penalty. It was unclear what an amendment, which limits the bill to repeat offenders, would do to that estimate.
In Louisiana, the one state that has sentenced child rapists to death, prosecutors have made capital cases of only two out of 180 eligible cases.
Constitutional challenges immediately followed the first of those two sentences, and the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule by June whether death is cruel and unusual punishment for felons who have not taken a life.
Senate Judiciary Committee members voted 5-2 to send Senate Bill 195 to the chamber's appropriations committee, which will weigh its as-yet-unknown price tag.
Current punishment
Critics of the bill say that current sentences, which in many cases amount to life in prison, are harsh enough.
Colorado sends child rapists and other serious sex offenders to prison for between four years and life, with the duration largely left to a judge's discretion.
Of the 1,200 people now incarcerated for the most serious sex crimes, only eight have received parole in the past decade, said Doug Wilson, Colorado's chief public defender.
Colorado joins Alabama, Missouri and Mississippi in seeking death for child rapists this year.
Montana, Oklahoma and South Carolina have passed similar laws since 2006, and Louisiana and Texas both approved such legislation in the mid-1990s, said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Death Penalty Information Center.
Get-tough attitude
As high-profile cases such as the rape and murder of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford of Florida — namesake of the popular Jessica's Law — draw attention to crimes against children, many politicians have grown eager to get tough on offenders, Dieter said.
The climate, he said, is tilting toward harsher penalties such as lifetime monitoring and housing restrictions for sex offenders.
"It's hard to vote against being tough on such offenders," Dieter said. "And whether the death penalty makes sense or not is sometimes obscured."
The number of inmates on Colorado's death row — one — ranks among the lowest in the nation of prisoners sentenced to death. The state last executed an inmate more than a decade ago.
Ward said that although his bill garnered bipartisan support in committee, it will likely face a fight this year.
Ward said, "I think it's an important discussion for us to have."
LINKS
The National Center For Victims of Crime (www.ncvc.org)
Bureau of Justice Statistics (www.ojp.usdoj.gov)
Office of Justice Programs (www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org)
Innocence Project (www.innocenceproject.org)
American Bar Association (www.abanet.org)
The Justice Project (www.thejusticeproject.org)
Crimelynx (www.crimelynx.com)
National Center for the Prosecution of Child Abuse (NCPCA)
99 Canal Center Plaza, Suite 510, Alexandria, VA 22314
Office: (703) 549-9222 Fax: (703) 836-3195
Email: ncpca@ndaa-apri.org
99 Canal Center Plaza, Suite 510, Alexandria, VA 22314
Office: (703) 549-9222 Fax: (703) 836-3195
Email: ncpca@ndaa-apri.org
Website: www.ndaa.org/apri/programs/ncpca/
NCPCA, through its staff of 20 attorneys, offers resources, training, publications and technical assistance to investigators and prosecutors of child abuse throughout the United States.
National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC)
2000 M Street N.W., Suite 480, Washington, DC 20036
Office: (202) 467-8700 Fax: (202) 467-8701 Toll free: 1-800-FYI-CALL (1-800-394-2255)
TDD: 1-800-211-7996 Email: webmaster@ncvc.org or gethelp@ncvc.org
Webstie: www.ncvc.org
2000 M Street N.W., Suite 480, Washington, DC 20036
Office: (202) 467-8700 Fax: (202) 467-8701 Toll free: 1-800-FYI-CALL (1-800-394-2255)
TDD: 1-800-211-7996 Email: webmaster@ncvc.org or gethelp@ncvc.org
Webstie: www.ncvc.org
NCVC offers crime victims, victim service providers, criminal justice officials, attorneys, and concerned individuals, practical information on the closest, most appropriate local service for victims of crime. Through its national database of over 30,000 grassroots organizations, NCVC refers callers to an array of critical services including crisis intervention, research information, assistance with the criminal justice process, counseling and support groups.
The National Crime Victim Bar Association Referral Line, a service offered by NCVC, provides victims referrals to local attorneys specializing in victim-related litigation. The referral line can be reached at (202) 467-8753 between 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM (EST) Monday through Friday. Or email requests to victimbar@ncvc.org.
National Center on Institutions and Alternatives (NCIA)
The Augustus Institute, Public Policy Center, 3125 Mt. Vernon Ave Alexandria, VA 22305 Office: (703) 684-0373 Fax: (703) 684-6037
Email: info@ncianet.org
Website: www.igc.org/ncia/
The Augustus Institute, Public Policy Center, 3125 Mt. Vernon Ave Alexandria, VA 22305 Office: (703) 684-0373 Fax: (703) 684-6037
Email: info@ncianet.org
Website: www.igc.org/ncia/
NCIA is a private non-profit agency providing training, technical assistance, research and direct services to criminal justice, social services, and mental health organizations and clients across the county. NCIA works on assessment and planning to reduce institutional overcrowding, alternative sentencing, community integration of juvenile and adult offenders, mental health and developmentally disabled clients. NCIA provides pre-trial analysis, early release, community custody, intense supervision and electronic monitoring programs. The Augustus Institute is the clinical arm of NCIA, which provides outpatient treatment for sex offenders.
National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA)
1730 Park Road N.W., Washington, DC 20010
Office: (202) 232-6682 Fax: (202) 462-2255 Hotline: 1-800-TRY-NOVA (1-800-879-6682)
Email: nova@try-nova.org
Website: www.try-nova.org
1730 Park Road N.W., Washington, DC 20010
Office: (202) 232-6682 Fax: (202) 462-2255 Hotline: 1-800-TRY-NOVA (1-800-879-6682)
Email: nova@try-nova.org
Website: www.try-nova.org
NOVA is a private, non-profit network of victim and witness assistance programs and practitioners, criminal justice agencies and professionals, mental health professionals, researchers, former victims, survivors, and others committed to the integration and implementation of victim rights and services. NOVA provides direct service to victims and communities that need assistance. One may call NOVA's hotline 24 hours a day for information, referrals in one's local area or emotional support. NOVA is the oldest national group of its kind in the worldwide victim's movement.
The Sentencing Project (SP)
514 - 10th Street, N.W., Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20004
Office: (202) 628-0871 Fax: (202) 628-1091
Email: staff@sentencingproject.org
Website: www.sentencingproject.org
Office: (202) 628-0871 Fax: (202) 628-1091
Email: staff@sentencingproject.org
Website: www.sentencingproject.org
SP is an independent source of criminal justice policy analysis, data and program information for the public and policy makers. The SP website is designed to provide resources and information for the news media and a public concerned with criminal justice and sentencing issues.
BLOGS
CrimProf Blog - A criminal justice blog maintained by Professor Mark Godsey of the Ohio Innocence Project
Crime Lab Project Blog - A blog on crime labs and forensic science.
Best Defense - A blog maintained by Jami Floyd, the anchor of Court TV's Best Defense
Authors Bio:
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