[utahagen]

I’m no liberal, but I think this is a very sad story. If we believe that sex offenders remain dangerous forever — and this may be the case — we should not let them out of jail in the first place. But sending sex offenders back into the world, yet severely restricting where they may live, is nuts. This does nothing to protect children — the offenders are still out there — and it makes sex offenders into actual pariahs (as opposed to social pariahs). I understand why these no-sex-offenders-here policies are popular with the public, but they do not make anyone safer. In fact, the fewer legal options sex offenders have once they get out of prison, the more likely they are to go “off the grid”, meaning they won’t be tracked at all. Requiring sex offenders to register with the police, and publishing their addresses, is working; these additional regulations that rule out 90% of the places offenders will be permitted to live, accomplish nothing.

[hunter112]

Really, we should be executing them. This bastard was convicted of assulting a child under the age of 13. This isn't peeing on a tree while drunk.

Dying from freezing to death is much kinder than what I'd mete out to perverts.

[DLfromthedesert]

Thank you for this thoughtful post. I’m appalled that people here are celebrating someone freezing to death; that’s uconsionable.