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To: TheOtherOne
Duncan had spent more than a decade in prison for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy at gunpoint in Tacoma, Wash. Duncan was released on $15,000 bail earlier this year in Becker County, Minn., after being charged with molesting a 6-year-old boy. Police in Fargo, N.D., where Duncan lived, had been looking for him since he failed to check in with a probation agent there in May.

Can somebody explain to me why we put missing children's info and faces all over TV, milk cartons, highway signs, etc., like it's a national emergency, but when a guy with a record like this jumps bail it's ho-hum no big deal? If we'd act like it's a national emergency when one of these convicted sickos jumps bail, fails to check in with a probation officer, can't be found at the address he's registered at, etc., there wouldn't BE so many missing/raped/murdered children!

Are we "good people" such losers that we only respond to alerts about cute little children who go missing, but wouldn't pay any attention to alerts and media coverage about a sicko middle-aged child molester who's gone missing? Because that's the only reason I can think of to explain this irrational approach to issuing alerts.

14 posted on 07/13/2005 12:15:15 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker
If we'd act like it's a national emergency when one of these convicted sickos jumps bail, fails to check in with a probation officer, can't be found at the address he's registered at, etc., there wouldn't BE so many missing/raped/murdered children!

I was thinking the exact same thing. I hope they start. In fact, how many are out TODAY that need to be found? Let's get 'em. I would support using my tax dollars as a bounty to be paid for finding these creeps.

20 posted on 07/13/2005 12:19:53 PM PDT by TheOtherOne (I often sacrifice my spelling on the alter of speed™)
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To: GovernmentShrinker
"Are we "good people" such losers that we only respond to alerts about cute little children who go missing, but wouldn't pay any attention to alerts and media coverage about a sicko middle-aged child molester who's gone missing? Because that's the only reason I can think of to explain this irrational approach to issuing alerts."

well, we do respond to tragedy,don't we, and not until then..

my fear is that we will have another period of wailing and gnashing of teeth, and then on to the next victim.......

41 posted on 07/13/2005 1:18:37 PM PDT by cherry
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