When ____ ____ set foot in South Georgia a few years ago, he had just spent 30 years in a Detroit prison for being a serial rapist convicted 10 times over.
Because Palmer committed his crimes before June 4, 2003, under Georgia law, he is allowed to settle down anywhere with no restrictions.
Yes, that’s right. Anywhere.
He can settle in a home next door to a school or day care or playground — anywhere.
“____ ____’s crime is so old (he) can live next to whatever he wants to. That’s not right. (But) that’s the law,” said Perry Connell, the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office investigator who has monitored the county’s sex offenders, including ____, for the past six years or so. Full Article
1. Anyone ever ask this man what drove him to rape after the first conviction?
1a. If yes then why did no one step in to introduce everything necessary in this man’s life to insure that whatever motivated the rape the first time was no longer an issue? Additionally why wasn’t the support network there to further insure anything else that might eventually become problematic was addressed prior to becoming a problem?
1b. If no, why not?
2. How come if yes the resulting data was not used to prevent others from ever potentially becoming rapists?
The solution is not law enforcement monitoring, it is preventing law enforcement from ever having to get involved in the future. Believing otherwise leaves open not just the possibility for future offenses, but an assurance that one way or another something will happen.
“If they re-offend, we’re responsible,” he said. “That’s why we take monitoring so seriously.”
Then why don’t you turn your badge and gun in because clearly, you’re just picking up a paycheck. “Proactive hyper-vigilance” will never, NEVER prevent the same thing the Kankas and Walshes went through. This is the sad reality and hard truth.
What a predictable and overzealous “I’m protecting the community” article.
“Thomas County’s Watkins said he’d rather see offenders locked up because then the sheriff’s office does not have to monitor them and the offenders can’t commit new crimes”
Quite a statement to make about former offenders who have and are continuing to comply with these arbitrary regulations.
The sheriffs in this hellhole are engaging in stalking by any definition and for some it is probably affecting their consciences.
People willingly participate in all kinds of things they are told to do for their paycheck or self preservation but eventually, they pay the consequences and their soul pays a price.
Stalking: obsessive attention towards an individual, monitoring a persons schedule, posting embarrassing information about an individual on the internet, intimidation.
“SEX OFFENDERS REQUIRE CONSTANT VIGILANCE FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT”
The long title would actually be:
SEX OFFENDERS REQUIRE CONSTANT VIGILANCE FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT IN ORDER TO TRAP THEM BREAKING THOUSANDS OF OBSCURE LAWS WRITTEN JUST AGAINST THEM IN ORDER TO PUT THEM BACK IN JAIL AND MAKE THEIR LIVES HELL EVEN THOUGH MOST NEVER RE-OFFEND EVER AGAIN.
“He can settle in a home next door to a school or day care or playground — anywhere.”
Articles like this, and people like Perry Connell, are so incredibly disingenuous. Was he convicted of raping kids? If not, shouldn’t Perry Connell be more concerned if he was living near a retirement community?