A local mother is fighting to fix a broken system that leaves children vulnerable to extreme abuse at the hands of repeat offenders.
“It was like oh my God. My worst fears came true. I was right. His case came into the prosecutor’s office as a homicide because they didn’t expect him to pull through,” says Erica Hammel, who’s son nearly died as a result of physical abuse.
Today, Erica’s son Wyatt lives with major injuries that have impacted his day to day life.
“That’s the heartbreaking thing for me. He can’t just be a typical 5-year-old kid,” says Erica.
Her 5-year-old son was victimized by his father’s girlfriend Rachel Edwards. Rachel had a violent past involving children, but sadly records to document her history were not readily available to Erica.
“She was convicted in 2011, and believe it or not convicted again of 4th degree child abuse 10 days before she almost killed Wyatt,” says Erica.
Erica says the problem is statewide. Countless children are still in danger. For that reason, she’s pursuing a new bill to correct the giant problem.
The more the merrier.😂😂😂😂
Whatever. Politicians continue their grab for votes by wasting our tax money on meaningless agenda that does nothing but hurt people. Soon enough everyone will be on one registry or another and we can finally get all them “normies”! 😛
Imagine the day when you’re the weird one because you aren’t on a registry.
So now everyone with a sex offense will be further witch hunted because of this isolated event this woman went through. Just… great. Guns are the reason children in America are at risk of harm, not genitals!
I really feel for this young mother, however she should look at how well the sex offender registry prevents anything before she goes wasting her time on what is essentially a symbolic act by creating this registry; the sex offender registry doesn’t work so I am at a loss to see how the child abuser registry will work.
A registry is not a solution but further creates additional problems for communities and citizens. A list is not going to prevent child abuse the same that a list is not going to prevent a sex offense. 95% of all child related crimes are committed by someone well know and trusted by the victim. Sad but mainly a father, a brother, an uncle, etc. it is a wast of our money and a wast of the already short staffed police to have to monitor yet another registry. Please stop this completely political waste