Somer Thompson's Mom To Killer: "We're Coming For You Buddy."

There is way too much of this stuff.  I wish I had a solution for it.

ACP: Of course we assume that Somer's murderer is a pedophile. I think that it's a safe assumption given the amount of pedophiles that reside in the Sunshine State. Most of the pedophiles are repeat offenders. And no matter what kind of treatment they undergo, they're virtually all incorrigible and when they're let out of jail they continue to prey upon children and get caught again, serve their time, and then are set free again. If this crap had occurred in my hometown, it wouldn't take long for the townsfolk to find out who the pedophiles are and take care of business. I'm not exaggerating here . . .you can ask nanute. The only solution to the problem is for the authorities to institute one strike and you're out laws. In other words, if someone molests or abducts a child, they need to be thrown in jail or a mental institution for the rest of their life and with no chance of being released. Obviously this will never happen because the courts will strike down any law that's passed in this regard.

There are three levels of offenders. The worst are as you say, Rory, but the actual number of crimes has gone down as those who can control themselves apparently learn to do so.

About 50% of the accusations in the '90s were false, with 25 % demonstrably innocent, and, of those 25%, 16% due to investigator incompetence, and 8% due to outright lying.

The penalties for lying about sex offense allegations was removed a long time ago. Just as in the witch hunts of the late Middle Ages and early Modern Era, removing the penalty for lying and putting the prosecution in the hands of people who don't know any of the principals involved has led to an amazing number of Inquisitions based on public panic from McMartin school in Manhattan Beach to Jordan, Minnesota.

A Clark County sheriff just got out of jail for "molesting" his kids two decades ago. Sharon Krause, lead investigator, should go to jail for suborning perjury of the two kids who have always denied having been molested by their father. The whole false memory syndrome finally got all the nails in its coffin that it deserved but you have never seen Oprah do a show about a falsely accused father of a family or McMartin or Jordan, Minnesota or Wannatchee, Washington.

Yet,the sheriff's name, and I know of several other people in similar straits, has yet to be cleared.

So, let us hold our horses on generalizations about the courts.

Let us remember that Janet Reno put six pairs of parents in jail for molesting their kids and made quite a name for herself, until all six convictions got overturned. She was from Florida. She, as you know, went on to "bigger and better things" in Waco, Texas where she killed kids to save them.

The truth of the matter is that this is the worst managed area of law enforcement, both for the real victims who are children and the real victims who are the falsely accused.

Thanks.

About the highest tier offenders: I don't know what to do. I suppose have them wear a GPS ankle bracelet all the time.

Actually, what I would do  if I had the power would be to test kids growing up and spot the future psychopaths and sociopaths before they blossomed into full evil.

I know no one wants to do this, though. It would work. It would not be perfect, but it would save us a lot of grief.

Do you think parents want to know this? Hey, parents often can't handle being reminded that their kid is so overweight that he is on his way to an early death.

But I have one more point to make. The number of kids killed by molesters is supposed to be far less than the number of kids killed by their own parents' drunk driving.

Yet, no campaign, no comparable level of outrage exists about this. Of course, the evil that arrives from outside of the family is seen as worse.

Good to know. My impression is that we are lax on this. In any case, MADD had to go ballistic to get a rational response out of the justice system.

Right now, my detective friend who invited me to a conference on this says false accusations are down.

How can kids under 12-13 be left alone to walk to and from school over a mile. Isnt there any law stating that a child cant be left unattented under a certain age here in Fla. as in many other states?    

Robert R (not verified):

Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment! If you reside in Florida, as do I, I'm sure that you've noticed many children waiting for the school bus or walking to school unattended by an adult. It's a fact of life here in Florida. Indeed I've traveled many back roads in rural areas throughout the state and I couldn't help but notice the amount of little children that stand at the side of the road waiting for their school bus unattended by an adult. However, the area where little Somer was abducted was not rural and isolated. It was in a typical and  well-populated Florida subdivision. I reside in one of those typical subdivisions about a half mile from a high school and middle school. The neighborhood is relatively safe in terms of suburban standards and the neighborhood kids walk as much as a mile and a half to and from school everyday unaccompanied by an adult. My guess is that someone in Somer's neighborhood--either a resident or guest of a resident that slipped between the legal cracks and lived under the legal radar, or a worker that frequents the neighborhood--had his eye on Somer for a considerable length of time and descended upon her at an opportune moment. 

You may be aware that  the abductions which occur in Florida, by pedophiles, typically take place in neighborhoods that are on the lower rung of the socioeconomic ladder. And the reason for that is that those neighborhoods are essentially the only neighborhoods that sex-offenders can reside in without being harassed and ostracized by neighbors, because their neighbors have enough of their own problems with the law. It's unusual for a child in a neighborhood such as the one that Somer lived in to be abducted and murdered. It all happened very quickly and perhaps the circumstances of Somer's abduction and death are not at all what we assume them to be . . . .

Whoever did this should be hanged, slowly.

Yet even his execution would not heal the mother's loss.

Times have certainly changed...1956 I used to walk or ride my bike about a mile to my school in La Habra, Ca.  All the kids walked to school. Maybe issues where not reported as they are today but it was never considered dangerous.

What I wonder is when are all the decent people going to wake up and take back America. It is shocking to me how far life in these fine United States has fallen in so many different ways. We can pay for condoms for people in Swaziland but my Grand-kids aren't safe walking to school, tell me again what I have paid taxes for all my life?

I really do think that know sex offenders should be castrated.Job well done.Or at the very least given a pill to stop their evil urges.

jazzy: I second your emotion! What we'd like to do to them probably makes more sense than what we actually do to them . . . .

Firstly  .. I know one person that might be surprised to see me here (NO .. I am not stalking you pal! .. lol) .. we all talk about the "good old days" ... "Taking back America" .. "unattended kids" etc, etc ... blah blah blah .. I don't the crime statististics but from the little that I absorb listening to Marconis' invention I've heard that the statistics pertaining to child abuductions (be they sexual in nature, or just the result of some psychopath) is no more now than it's ever been in recent US history and the so called experts make this claim soley on the fact that the public is more liley now to discuss these heinous crimes primarily because infomation now is spread so quickly. Back in the good old 40's and 50's if a chold was abducted in, let's say, Podunk Iowa, it's likely that the news might make the local paper, if that. If the news were to spread beyond that, again, it might make it to the state level. Our society today, because of the fierce competition of verious news outlets, be they newspapers, Radio/ TV or the Interbet will search high and low for every story that has the potential to grab the public's attention. As Rory states, perhaps the solution is to correctly convict the sex offender and make absolute certain this creep committed the crime and lock him away for good. That is very harshm but as he states,  ( and I don't know the statistics), most are repeat offenders so if once is not enough, then surely two offenses are .. problem is, that second offense may be the one that results in the loss of an innocent life.

Alde: HA! How many kids do you know of in that town that you grew up in that were abducted? Also, in that particular town, what do you think would have happened to the abductor? The boys would have literally cut his gonads off and shoved them down his throat! You are aware that a particular man of the cloth that served the lord in the church that provides the backdrop of in the picture of me carrying the American flag in the 1963 Memorial Day parade was a pedophile?

BTW: I'd like nothing better than for someone to stalk me! I'm out of shape and I can use the exercise. Especially that sociopath, STUNAD, that grew up in The Point and is now writing funny cat and doggy books out on the Left Coast and that must have read Saul Alinsky's Rules For Radicals over and over and over again. I think that he needs to visit Thailand and drum up a conspiracy of sorts . . . . When are you going to have lunch again with nano nano?

                Like most citizens of the Jacksonville community, my heart is aching with grief for what has happened to Somer Thompson. What happened to her should never happen to anyone. Yet, this is not a new thing. It happens, far too often. Do we really believe it will never happen again? There are 161 registered sex offenders within a 5 mile radius of where Somer lived. We have a serious epidemic in America. What are we going to do about it?                     We should be asking ourselves, ‘what could cause any human being to have such a perverted appetite to prey on little girls?’ There have been volumes of research done on the harmful effects of pornography. Rather than cite research results, I appeal to our humanities. Life itself teaches us that pornography stimulates, to the point of addiction for multitudes, perverted appetites for fulfillment, that ultimately produces hideous behaviors like what Somer experienced.                 During dry seasons, when risk of fire is high, a lit cigarette thrown out a car window can cause forest fires and inflict pain and injury on multitudes. It only takes a spark to get a fire going. That is why it is illegal. If you stop sparks, you stop fires. Sex crimes are crimes of passion similar to fires. They smolder, then catch fire, then grow til they become ‘out of control’. The best way to minimize sexual crimes is by placing greater restrictions on pornography. Squash the spark and you put out the fire. Would that make a difference? Pornography sales are five times higher per capita in Alaska and Nevada than other states, such as North Dakota. Rape rates are six times higher per capita in Alaska and Nevada than North Dakota! Stop the sale of pornography and you will drastically reduce the number of sex crimes.                 I can hear the ACLU now, ‘that is a violation of rights’. What about Somer’s rights? Didn’t she have the right to a wholesome society? to a world where the lawmakers are doing everything possible to enact laws that will minimize the spread of evil? When are we going to stop putting the rights of criminals ahead of the decent citizens of our society? How many more Somer Thompsons will it take to stir us to action?   Bob Coulter, Pastor Middleburg First Church of God