Time served, sex offender who killed 6-year-old girl has come to live in Derry

Union Leader ^ | February 1,2008 | PAT GROSSMITH AND NANCY WEST

[KeyLargo]

This is the result you get when there is no death penalty.

[ninonitti]

Do the crime....do the time. And then you’re a free man. It sucks in this case but them’s the rules.

[JimRed]

Derry? Isn’t that the location of the town in the Steven King horror novel “It”?

If so, appropriate place for a predator!

[robomatik]

..."Douglas Allen Simmons, 47, moved into 71 East Broadway, Apt. 3, Derry"

worth repeating.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Amen.

[Vigilanteman]

In a saner time, the perp would’ve danced the Tyburn Jig. Unfortunately, there is a better than 50-50 chance he’ll do it again.

[Hoodlum91]

Why single him out?

http://www.familywatchdog.us/

A quick search of Derry shows multiple sex offenders in the city.

[Jeff Head]

This guy should never, ever have been let out. It is sickening and disgusting and a travesty that he was ever even considered for parole at all. He should have been either hung, electrocuted, or lethally injected...and is deserving of such a state sentence to this day for what he did to that beautiful little girl. He lures her into his outse, she touches his stereo and so he strangels her to death and then sexually molests the body. My God! No way should he have ever seen the light of day.

Being the father of five children, three of them girls, which my wife and I have raised to maturity, I believe if I had been the Dad of this little girl that I would have had some temporary insanity go on and this aniumal would have never been in any position to be freed. His next tribunal would have been before a non-earlthy bar.

[trisham]

I can’t imagine how anyone in their right mind could believe that children will ever be safe around this man. The parents of Derry must be horrified.

[Wolfie]

And when he does it again, there will be a lot of hand-wringing, and “oh what could have been done differently” musings. And then we’ll let another one out and repeat the process.

[jeddavis]

In theory this idiot should have been hanged. Problem is, at this point in time, a death penalty in America would simply amount to handing the Mike Nifongs and Ronnie Earles of the land licenses to kill people; those three lacrosse players could easily be dead. I’d have to have some very major changes in the entire system before I could support a death penalty in America. The job of DA would have to be abolished and the entire “adversarial” system of justice bagged in favor of some sort of an “inquisitorial” system such as you see in France in which the common incentive of all players is to figure out what happened and who if anybody is guilty of what. NOBODY should have any sort of a career or money incentive to simply put people in prison or hang them.

[Pontiac]

Derry? Isn’t that the location of the town in the Steven King horror novel “It”?

Yes that is where "It" takes place (and others I think). But all of King's novels take place in Maine. This is New Hampshire.

[socialismisinsidious]

The parents of Derry must be horrified.

I bet not all of them. I know of a liberal mother of two, who, when she was sent a link to the database of sex offenders, got angry b/c she felt that it was an "invasion of privacy" against the offenders and she "wouldn't want to discriminate". Liberals are so PC'ed and dumbed down that they no longer have a self preservation bone in their bodies.

[trisham]

I bet not all of them. I know of a liberal mother of two, who, when she was sent a link to the database of sex offenders, got angry b/c she felt that it was an "invasion of privacy" against the offenders and she "wouldn't want to discriminate". Liberals are so PC'ed and dumbed down that they no longer have a self preservation bone in their bodies.

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You're right.

[Rummyfan]

He served his time. He's doing fine. He's been out of prison over five years," Jacqueline Dean said. "He just wants to live his life."

What about the six-year-old child he strangled and abused? Can she 'live her life'?

[RexFamilia]

and when the gov’t lets felons vote, I’ll bet he registers and vote as Democrat

[kenth]

That’s worse; that’s not even self-preservation, but protection of their kids. If their liberal idiocy spills over to abandoning the safety of their children, then they’re one sorry excuse for a human being.

[Godwin1]

Hussein Obama opposes the death penalty and, in the Illinois Legislature, fought to kill it. Worth remembering.

[Dahoser]

WAIT A MINUTE! He murdered someone, got out on good behavior after 22 years and he's described only as a sex offender? This is not the typical situation where yet another sex offender scumbag who should never see the light of day is let out of prison.

No, this is a murderer! Calling him a sex offender makes him sound like Aqualung leering at Cross-Eyed Mary. He's not, he's a cold-blooded killer. He took a precious child and strangled her with a telephone cord. The poorly written article we have here sets the sexual assault as after the murder, yet it seems to be the dominant theme and concern. I don't understand.

[libs_kma]

" Liberals are so PC'ed and dumbed down that they no longer have a self preservation bone in their bodies."

Not unlike the liberal mother of that girl, Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped.

That mother told her husband to hire this homeless grifter to help him paint the house or something. She felt sorry for him. The grifter does the work, sees the girl, comes back and kidnaps her.

Great job Mom! You got to feel better about yourself and what you were doing for society. Hope it was worth it for you.