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rd
Joined: 13 Sep 2002 Posts: 9275 Location: Jacksonville, FL
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 8:49 pm Post subject: Sex offender seen with missing girl nabbed in Jacksonville |
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I pick up the local paper and what do I see? Another sex offender on the run, another missing girl.
Only the sex offender wasn't on the run because anyone was trying to keep tabs on him.
Just a "hi, mom, I'm home, don't believe any of that stuff you see in the papers" type on the run, I guess.
They won't monitor these guys and keep them locked up when they clearly are still unmonitored predators, and girls keep dying.
Build lots and lots and lots of cheap prison cells in the desert, and lock these guys away.
rd
Track offenders with GPS recorders!
click to read the online true crime mystery novel Murder on a Horse Trail: The Disappearance of Chandra Levy
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from www.ocregister.com (fair use)
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1767240.php
Vigil seeks return of woman last seen with sex offender
Officials responsible for monitoring John Steven Burgess unflagged his status, documents allege.
By KIMBERLY EDDS
The Orange County Register
July 15, 2007
While the convicted sex offender wanted for questioning in the disappearance of a 19-year-old college student was creating an image of a loving father, devoted son and decorated Desert Storm veteran to meet women over the Internet, his status as a sex offender went unmonitored for months after he told authorities he was moving out of the state and no longer needed to be in the state's sex offender registry.
Officials responsible for keeping tabs on sex registrants unflagged the status of John Steven Burgess and never verified his residence as required by law, even though he continued to live in the state for at least seven more months, according to interviews and court documents.
Dozens of Donna Jou's relatives and friends, worn down by worry, gathered outside Rancho Santa Margarita City Hall on Friday night for a candlelight vigil, some holding photos of a wanted man and the missing girl as they whispered in Farsi that it wouldn't be long before Jou comes home. A $15,000 reward was being offered for information leading to Burgess, who whisked away the honor student he met online from her Rancho Santa Margarita apartment on his motorcycle June 23.
"Someone should have been watching him," said Jou's father, Reza. "If there were, Donna would be here with us."
In 2003, Burgess was convicted of sexually assaulting a girl under the age of 14. He was sentenced to 146 days in jail and three years' probation, and was required to register as a sex offender. He did – for a while. And when he stopped, no one checked up on why – or where he was. And he put up ads on Craigslist.org offering a "kewl girl" free rent in exchange for a few household chores.
State law requires sex offenders to register with local police departments every year, within five days of their birthday and within five days of moving.
The burden to register falls on the sex offender, and with so many living in Los Angeles, offenders can take advantage of loopholes to fly under the radar, said Anita Vigil, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County Probation Department.
(snip very interesting article for copyright reasons)
click to read rest
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1767240.php
Contact the writer: 714-796-7829 or kedds@ocregister.com
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jane
Joined: 22 Sep 2002 Posts: 3227
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:08 am Post subject: |
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I just can't understand why we can't trust proven liars with no respect for the dignity or rights of others to register themselves. Just because someone has been known to kidnap and rape and so on - does that mean they are untrustworthy? Oh, maybe it does. Maybe we shouldn't expect them to be scrupulous about registering themselves... _________________ "There is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known."
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gozgals
Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 2892 Location: A Place Called Vertigo
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 1:34 am Post subject: |
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Just more of the usual stories we read. We need to get rid of them all, once and for all. They can't be trusted and will always repeat their crimes.
Throw away the keys, haul them off to some island or desert like you said Rd , and put those that murder children to death. Enough!!
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