One Strike Law

Seems others think the One Stike Law is a good idea.

http://www.livesecure.org/one-strike-law/

Too bad it is gonna take more and more missing, murdered, raped, mauled, beaten babies before it is a reality.

John Albert Gardner the Amber Dubois story

Tonight on 48 hours mystery is child raping murderer  John Albert Gardner. 

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/48hours/main3410.shtml

If we don't come up with a one strike law in this country for child molesters we are going to have more John Albert Gardners running around and more babies raped and killed.

John Albert Gardner said "I am the most dangerous type of sex offender, I will kill, I know I will, I am the type that needs to be locked up forever".

One Strike Law

Thanks for the graphic Jacey!

John Gardner, child murderer

Habitual sex offender John Albert Gardner pleaded guilty today to murdering two teenage girls in San Diego County after prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty.

Gardner, 31, faces life in prison without parole for killing 14-year-old Amber Dubois and 17-year-old Chelsea King.

He also pleaded guilty to attempting to rape another woman who was jogging in San Diego last year.

None of this would have ever happened if we had a One Strike Law.

Chelsea King

Another solid case for ONE STRIKE LAW

John Albert Gardner III received a very light sentence in 2000 after prosecutors ignored a a psychiatrist’s warning and suggestion of a stronger sentence.  Prosecutors noted John Gardner’s lack of criminal history, and tossed in the standard “wanted to spare the victim the trauma of testifying” card when seeking the five year prison term for the sexual assault of a 13 year old girl.


Chelsea King, 17, beloved daughter, honor student, athlete, friend to all, has gone missing and John Gardner is behind bars. He is being charged with her rape and murder.
 
But now Amber Dubois, who disappeared last year on her way to school, was identified through dental records after police found her remains Saturday in rugged terrain near Pala. Police had refocused attention on the Dubois case after Gardner was arrested last week in connection with the murder of Chelsea King, a high school senior from nearby Poway.
 
Another woman has identified Gardner as the man who tried to attack her Dec. 27, 2009 while she was jogging in the same general vicinity where both Chelsea and Amber vanished. The woman in that attack managed to escape.
 
John Albert Gardner III, lived a couple of miles from where Dubois vanished near Escondido High School.
 
Want to know how to stop child molesters?  Lock em up the first time!
 

More proof that we need to adopt the one stike law

The body of a Maryland girl who authorities say was abducted by a registered sex offender was found Friday after thousands of volunteers fanned out to look for her.


Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis said that the body of 11-year-old Sarah H. Foxwell was discovered at about 4 p.m. near the Delaware state line. He offered few other details. Thomas J. Leggs Jr., 30, has been charged in her kidnapping.


Lewis said Sarah was last seen Tuesday night at her home on Maryland's Eastern Shore. A relative discovered she was missing early Wednesday while checking on Sarah and her 6-year-old sister. A charging document says Leggs was the last person seen with Sarah.


A "juvenile witness" awoke during the night Tuesday and saw Sarah leave the bedroom with "Tommy," and said he was wearing blue jeans, an orange jacket and white sneakers, the charging document says.

Leggs is listed on the Maryland and Delaware sex offender registries. The Maryland listing notes that he is a child sex offender, but does not give details about his conviction.


Lewis said Leggs has been convicted of sex offense in Wicomico County and was charged Oct. 29 with fourth-degree burglary.

In 2001, Leggs was convicted in Delaware of rape for having sex with a victim who was 16 or 17, according to the Delaware registry. The registry describes his risk level as "high" and notes he is unemployed.

Leggs, who has been convicted of assault several times, also is awaiting trial on charges of burglary and destruction of property in Ocean City

Lawmaker wants to castrate pedophiles

More than three million American children are victims of child molestation - that’s according to the Child Molestation Prevention Organization.
Almost half were violated by repeat offenders.

Now, Talladega County Representative Steve Hurst of Munford wants to surgically castrate convicted pedophiles older than 21 who’s victims are younger than twelve years old.

“You take a child who’s completely helpless. They have no way to defend themselves. And someone does something of this nature to them, you have literally destroyed that child for the rest of their life,“ says Hurst.

“If it’s an urge they can’t control… the castration certainly would take care of that problem and protect neighborhoods, communities and future victims,“ says Jefferson County Mike Hale, who supports the idea, which is now officially House Bill 252.

Hale says his deputies re-arrest at least 30% of the child molesters who are parolled.

“I think they would see this as a threat - from even committing one crime to start with. If the word got out that Alabama would castrate you if you molested a child, that would send a pretty strong message,“ says Hale.

Accused child rapist seeks change of venue

I don't think he'll find a place in America that will have sympathy for him.

Lawyers are seeking a change of venue for a Springfield man accused of raping a 7-year-old girl before leaving her to die in a burning house.

Jeffrey Allen Dickson is charged with kidnapping, forcible rape and two counts of forcible sodomy in the incident on April 6. Dickson’s lawyer said heavy media coverage of the story might make it tough for Dickson to get a fair trial in Greene County.

Public defender Rod Hackathorn said at a hearing yesterday he’ll file for a change of venue within a week.

The 38-year-old Dickson is accused of abducting the girl from a home and taking her to an empty house several blocks away. There, he allegedly choked, raped and sodomized the girl before making her smoke something from a pipe.

She awoke to find the house on fire.

Repeat Offender arrested for raping 5 year old girl

A registered sex offender - arrested again - this time for the rape of a five year-old girl.

Friday, police arrested 21-year-old Damon Matthew Harding of Rogers, after interviewing the 5-year-old victim. According to the Benton County Sheriff's office, Harding is already registered as a sex offender.

ONE STIKE YOU'RE OUT!

Convicted sex offender admits molesting girl, 5

An admitted sex offender pleaded guilty yesterday to charges that he sneaked into the bedroom of a 5-year-old Pequannock girl and molested her on at least two occasions in 2007.

Timothy Iberer, 28, of Bloomingdale, pleaded guilty in Superior Court in Morristown to second-degree charges of sexual assault and attempted aggravated sexual assault, and two counts of third-degree burglary, in connection with the incidents that occurred in August and September of 2007.

In all, he faces up to 18 years in prison when he is sentenced on Feb. 27.

Too bad he isn't in Ohio - life in prison.

60 years for rapist of 11-year-old

A man convicted of raping an 11-year-old girl at knifepoint in her bedroom two years ago will spend at least 60 years in prison.

Peter Jacob Inouye, 26, was found guilty of three counts of first-degree rape while armed with a deadly weapon, one count of first-degree burglary while armed with a deadly weapon with sexual motivation, and one count of second-degree assault of a child while armed with a deadly weapon with sexual motivation.

“I was just a child and he took away my innocence in just 20 minutes,” the victim, now 13, told the judge at sentencing. She also blasted Inouye for not taking the stand during his trial.

The sentences for all five counts will be served consecutively, so the earliest Inouye could be paroled is in 60 years.

The judge said the reason for the exceptionally long sentence was because the child was raped three times during the Feb, 5, 2007 incident, so the judge sentenced Inouye on all three rapes.

Inouye was initially identified as a person of interest after detectives learned he had been at the victim's home for an event to help the girl’s family after her father died.

Sex Offender Allegedly Attempts To Grab Child Off Porch

Dayton police said Kim Abney, 52, is accused of trying to grab a 9-year-old girl off her front porch last week. The girl's family shares a duplex with Abney on McLain Street.

The child's mother, Kathleen Washabaugh, said she ran outside when she heard her daughter screaming.

Police said Abney tried pulling the child over the wall that divides the duplex's porch. They said their initial investigation showed that Abney also may have licked the girl's face.

This is why we need the one strike for child molesters.

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Child Rapist Convicted, Will Spend Life in Prison

A Hamilton Township man will spent the rest of his life in prison after a jury convicted him on rape charges.

47-year-old James Cappadonia was convicted on two counts of rape and one count of gross sexual imposition.

Prosecutors say Cappadonia raped and inappropriately touched a nine-year-old girl.

Cappadonia has been on trial in Warren County for the past three days.

The jury returned a verdict in just three hours Wednesday.

The rape conviction carries a mandatory life sentence in prison.

Man sentenced to life for raping a 4-year-old girl

A Springfield man will serve life in prison on charges stemming from an alleged sexual abuse of a 4-year-old girl and drug use by her 6-year-old sister.

Dale Driscoll, 28, of Clifton Avenue, was sentenced Sept. 17 to serve life without parole - the maximum possible sentence - for raping a 4-year-old girl in February, said Clark County Assistant Prosecutor Andy Wilson. A jury found him guilty of the crime Sept. 15.

In January 2007, state law changed to allow sentencing for a life without parole sentence for rape of a victim under 10, said Wilson.

Due to the victim's age and Driscoll's lengthy criminal history, he was given the maximum sentence.

"When I pulled his rap sheet, it was five feet long," said Wilson.

Crackdown on sex offender sentences likely

A series of legislative hearings on Vermont's criminal justice system will likely result in a recommendation for stiffer mandatory minimum sentences for the most egregious sex offenders, the chairman of a key senate committee said Thursday.

Sen. Dick Sears, head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said longer sentences for "habitual" offenders would not supplant existing sexual assault statutes, but offer prosecutors in the state an opportunity to apply the more severe charge in appropriate cases.

Other recommendations likely to appear in the committee's report, due in November, include expansive prevention efforts and beefed-up oversight of convicted sex offenders."We clearly have to recognize the limitations of treatment when it comes to sex offenders," Sears said Thursday. "I think the committee will be looking at strengthening laws, in terms of lengths of sentences, as well as a bigger focus on prevention programs."

Accused Child Rapist and Attempted Murderer Arrested in Memphis

Authorities say a man, who is accused of impregnating a 13 year-old girl and shooting a Memphis Firefighter, has been arrested.

According to the U.S. Marshalls Service, O’Neal Johnson was arrested in the 5200 block of Craigmont in Raleigh around 9:00 p.m., Thursday, September 11, 2008.

Police say Johnson, 30, was wanted after he was accused of getting a 13 year-old girl pregnant. Authorities also say Johnson is wanted for the attempted murder of a Memphis Firefighter. Investigators say the firefighter was at his part-time job at a laundry business when Johnson shot him, in November 2007.

Cross-Dressing Child Molester Gets Life

Did you just say 'thank god'? I did.

A cross-dressing child molester was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday after he admitted to duping a 13-year-old boy into having sex with him while he was dressed as a woman.

One Strike - You're Out!

http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20080903/NEWS08/809030312

Friends of Brooke Bennett testify before lawmakers

Jonathan Larson, a Randolph firefighter, arrived at a public hearing on sexual violence Thursday night at the Statehouse with a picture of Brooke Bennett pinned to his crisp white dress shirt.

Larson, a friend of Bennett's family, blamed lenient sex offender statutes for the murder of the 12-year-old girl that sang in his church each Sunday.

"I come before you today very scared of how Vermont is turning out," Larson told a panel of lawmakers. "(Bennett's) death could have been prevented … by installing stricter penalties for sex offenders."

"In front of you are pictures of a precious life that has been lost," said Mary Larson, handing out photographs of Brooke Bennett. "Why? How could this possibly have happened? Never again should even one more child be the victim of a predator who remains free through a series of a broken criminal justice system's failings."

Michael Yates, a father of three and grandfather of eight, walked one mile to attend Thursday's hearing. He told lawmakers they have neglected their duty to protect the public by failing to install 25-year mandatory minimums.

"Every time I look at the news I see these crimes against children and it just tears me up," he said. "I can't understand why the state is letting this happen."

For the friends and family of Bennett, however, only harsh punishments will quell the grief, anger and fear that have accompanied her murder. Laurie Miller, Bennett's middle school basketball coach, sobbed as she recounted the little girl's life.

"Once a sex offender, always a sex offender," she said. "I think they should be in jail for life."

Repeat Child Molesters

I've been reading recently about a sex offender in GA, Matthew Caylor, who moved without notification to FL and murdered a little 13 year old girl.

Matthew Caylor who was convicted of Child Molestation on 2/21/2001. Only 7 short years ago.

People, well the ACLU and SO activists, are trying to say the sex offender laws are not working.

I say, the alternative is to keep them locked up forever. It is the only guarantee we have to keep sex offenders from re-offending, nothing else can make that 100% guarantee.

We all have seen the lenient judges and know this isn't going to happen anytime soon. So, for now, every restrictive sex offender law that we can think of, is a good one.

Just look at how many already convicted sex offenders just cannot keep to themselves:

http://vigilant-antis.blogspot.com/

Indicted Child Molester Under Arrest Again

Police have arrested a man indicted Tuesday on 34 counts of crimes against children.

41-year-old Kenneth Hughes Johnston was arrested last night.

Johnston accused in the indictment of several child molestation charges and showing pornography to a minor according to the indictment.

Why don't we have a one strike law?

Convicted MT sex offender found dead in Deer Lodge

This man is the perfect example of the reasoning behind the "One Stike Law".

Convicted sex offender Nathaniel Bar-Jonah was found dead on Sunday at the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge.

Back On February 20, 2002 Bar-Jonah went on trial for kidnapping, sexually assaulting and choking a teenage neighbor boy and was eventually sentenced to 130 years.

Authorities also charged Bar-Jonah with murder in the 1996 disappearance of 10-year-old Zach Ramsay, saying the evidence suggested
Bar-Jonah had butchered the boy and disposed of his body in meals served
to neighbors. The murder charge was later dismissed after Ramsay's mother said she would testify she believed her son was still alive.

Bar-Jonah pleaded guilty in Massachusetts in 1977 to charges of kidnapping, attempted murder and impersonation of a police officer after he posed as a police officer and kidnapped two boys.

"25% of all sex offenders re-offend within 15 years".........Sarah Tofte, Human Rights Watch