Sad...Sad and Unnecessary

Suspect in High Profile North Carolina Murder Arrested in Niagara Falls


This is the newest, most recent case to make the nationwide news of a Registered Sex Offender that slipped his leash, and re offended.  In this case, because the offence involved the rape and murder of Police Chief's daughter, it is possible that the case received a little more attention than some similar cases receive.  It's also possible that the fathers position as a fellow officer of the law, a more vigorous pursuit was mounted against the offender...I don't want to think that way though...I have no doubt that Law Enforcement Agencies across the country take a dim view upon rape and murder and give as much effort as they can to catching the animals that commit these crimes.

It is also totally unnecessary. 

Time to get on the High Horse of My Opinion.

One of the few places where both empirical data and psychological theory agree is that sex-offenders CAN NOT BE HEALED.  The urge to perform the acts that got them in trouble in the first place will ALWAYS be there.  It's only with medication and continuous monitoring that they can be released back into our society.  And then every few weeks(sometimes it even feels like days), one of them does something to remind us why this was a bad idea.

So, why do we even try?  Why are we wasting increasingly hard to come by tax-payer resources to try to rehabilitate that which can not be rehabilitated.?  PUT THEM IN THE GROUND!!!!!  Stop throwing my money away on them...if you cannot trust them out in the real world without monitoring, and bracelets, and not letting them live within a certain distance of a school because you are THAT worried about them doing unspeakably bad things to someone else's daughter, wife(or even son, the sicko's), then put a bullet in them and GET RID OF THEM.

Okay...for a clarification, I know there are an unfortunate percentage of 'sex-offenders' out there, who were in fact found guilty of Statutory Rape.  Statutory Rape does not a sex-offender make.  Picking up some cute thing at the mall, and either not asking her age, or asking her age and then late finding out she lied to you, does not make you a molester.  I saw this once or twice in my Naval career, where young sailors picked up even younger(but older looking) girls, and were later punished and labeled sex-offenders, for life.  Obviously, there does need to be a younger cut-off, somewhere around 13-14 would please me as a father of girls, where it changes from Statutory Rape to Molest...

Sigh...it's just so unnecessary.