(Note: I already had poured out this post at MH, because that was where I was when I had started thinking about this and I wrote down my thoughts. So there are things in there I probably should not have said, but this definitely has been a big shock to me)

In my town where I graduted from, there was a 16 year old girl who was raped and stabbed to death last night. She was a sophomore at the high school I attended to.
The person who murdered her was supposed to still be in jail for raping a six year old in 1982 (I believe, I don't know if that year is exactly correct). Unfortunately, he was let out first in October 2005. He ended up being free of bond after being arrested January 17th with three accounts of child molestation, one a Class A and the other two a Class C felony and then was charged with being a repeat sex offender. His bail was at 50,000 and he made bail through someone.
So he's free. And the streets that he was living on.. they were less than a mile from the high school. And I thought that sex offenders couldn't live that close to a high school, but apparently so. And then he goes and rapes and now kills someone.
I used to think that my town, even though I knew it wasn't entirely safe when it's dark, was at least safe enough for me to take walks. Apparently not. I'm praying hard for this family and for my town. I never personally knew the girl (she was only a sophomore) but the fact that it happened in my hometown is scary. I pray and hope they lock up this jerk and hope he gets prison for life.
I'm so ashamed at the government system. They are absolutely pathetic for even letting a guy like that back out on the streets. And to post a simple bond on him. *shakes head* Here, we get hit with speeding tickets that are $125 if you're going ONE over the speed limit. But they let sex offenders float about the children. How sad.

That is sad. I just don't understand why people like that are let out in the world. Ugh. They should be in some other place, like some... stop-doing-those-kinds-of-things place. There's probably a name for a place like that, but I can't think of one right now.

I hope that jerk (and all the others like him) are locked up in jail, or one of those stop-doing-that places. D<

>___<;; The world is unfair. The law represents people's fight for justice, but sometimes judges are blind and things don't resolve perfectly. @_@

*sigh* If this was the world of Death Note, that guy would've definitely been killed by Kira. XDD

That's not good. I feel really sorry for that girls family. Let's all hope and pray for them tonight.

In the trailer park where I used to live on the weekends with Dad after he moved on on Mom, a sex offender lived one house away, across the street. Dad said to stay away from him. xD

But yeah, our government is pretty screwed up.
I VOTE RAPISTS GET THE ELECTRIC CHAIR.

Just kidding... Or am I?

Actually, having dome an essay on Capital Punishment and its downsides, you have to think about the other side of this. As corrupt and mindless as this person was, he still has (or had) a family. People who cared about him. He committed a crime that is unforgiveable and should certainly be punished, but not by death. Permanent imprisonment without hope of parole is the way to go, so that he cannot be bought out by anyone.

Still, that's a terrible story that someone would do such things. Innocents raped and killed, people forgiven for their crimes because of a large, totally unrelated sum of money. Shows you how corrupt our government and the justice system is at its core.

I will think about the lost girl and hope that wherever her conscience went, it was to a safe place.