TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – A Florida bill, intended to prohibit the release of sexual offenders on bail while they await sentencing, was filed Tuesday.
“Missy’s Law,” filed by Representative Sam Greco, is named after 5-year-old Missy Mogle, who was found unresponsive at a southeast Tallahassee home in May.
Since then, her mom, Chloe Spencer, and stepdad, Daniel Spencer, were both arrested after being accused of cruelly neglecting and abusing the young girl.
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The legislation wrote that it would be “requiring a court to remand a person found guilty of a dangerous crime to custody immediately” and that person would have to remain in custody while awaiting sentencing or further proceedings without the possibility of being released on bond.
Dangerous crimes include arson, child abuse, elderly abuse, murder and sexual battery.
I only see that some guy “was out on bond while awaiting sentencing for child sex crimes” that apparently had nothing to do with the unfortunate victim this bill was named for, but whose death was apparently due to the neglect of both this guy and her mother.
First, I can’t help but wonder what particular child sex crime the man was convicted for that his judge allowed him to remain out on band.That’s a pretty unusual circumstance anywhere, and I imagine almost unheard of in Florida. I can only think whatever it was couldn’t have been that serious or the case against him was incredibly weak.
Second, I can’t tell from the story what the man did or didn’t do that somehow led to the victim’s death. Or any indication that the victim would still be alive were it not for the man’s being out on bond awaiting sentencing. If the man’s bond and the victim’s death are two isolated incidents (and the story would suggest they are by what it doesn’t say), then what exactly is the point of this bill?