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Inform About Sex Offenders: Yes Or No? - Online Essay

Inform About Sex Offenders: Yes Or No?

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33-year-old Jesse Timmendequas lured 7-year-old Megan Kanka in to
his house in Hamilton Township, NJ. Shortly after, Megan was strangled to
death and raped. Jesse was living in a half way house and was on parole
after his second sex offense. Mrs. Kanka feels that she as well as the
other neighbors should have been notified about the fact that a repeat sex
offender was being released back into the public. I tend to disagree
strongly.
Two-hundred-thousand people also seem to agree with here in New
Jersey. They would want to know so that they could keep their kids inside
and not let them play in their own neighborhood. Mrs. Kanka would not have
let her daughter play outside if she ...

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who lives in the house. They just got out of prison, so they must
have committed some sort of bad crime. Nowadays it is hard to actually go
to prison unless you commit such a bad crime as murder or rape-murder. If
the Mrs. Kanka had warned her children about that place this might not have
ever happened. Also why give a person who might actually be rehabilitated
any more problems than they will already have when they are released. The
more problems that they are given the more apt they are to go back to their
old ways. One last question, Just off the top of my head. How in the hell
did Jesse get Megan into the half way house when it is being "closely
supervised" by a guard 24 hours a day, seven days a week?
There are some good reasons to tell a community a person like Jesse
is being released. The reasons are also simple why they should not. Megan
would probably be alive today if Mrs. Kanka had made sure that her daughter
was aware of what that place really was. ...

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Added: 4/20/2006 12:48:16 PM
Category: Legal Issues
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