Justice? Or enabling? Or ...

I have watched as the children in Florida were murdered after being sexually abused, and fumed as three who lived in the same trailer as one of the murderers were not charged with anything after lying to the police and even aiding the man in escaping them. I have seen so many children kidnapped out of their own homes, including the two year old daughter of one of my former babysitters here in WI. I have not understood how some of these people get out so easily, and are allowed to live anywhere near kids, and often their very whereabouts are UNKNOWN.

But I have never been so flabbergasted, so angry, so disgusted as I am in hearing about the poor family in Idaho. Three people murdered, two children stolen, ONE killed, ONE recognized by a waitress and both had been sexually molested repeatedly while in this ...... animal's control.

And then we learn that he was OUT ON BAIL, of $15,000 and only had to deposit $1500 of that! What is going on with the judges today? Now, this judge (see more recent news story hyperlinked to title) claims he 'didn't know' that Duncan was a Level 3 convicted sexual offender that had served time for molesting a 14 yr old AT GUNPOINT when he was 16, and was NOW in the judge's court room for allegedly molesting a six year old... and could barely remember the case.

You know, not too long ago, the newspapers were FULL of the scandal in our Catholic Church, where the victims were nearly all teens. They were furious that some of the Bishops, who believed the psychobabble of those days that offenders, etc could be cured with 'treatment'... had dared to transfer those priests from place to place. The stories made it seem that the ONLY clergy molesters were Catholic priests, and the solution was to let priests marry ... (right, homosexual priests who prey on teen males really need to marry, and raise their own victims, AND also cause some woman a lifetime of unhappiness.... yeah, they surely would not prey on teen boys if they were married, having children of their own.... )

The pedophiliacs are not solely in one place. Some are Dads, molesting their own kids, and their kid's friends. Some are never married, and molest any child that they can find, even stalking them and kidnapping them. Some, as in the case I am most familiar with, have even been arrested in the past for sexually abusing...animals, and moved up to a two year old girl he took out of her own home, through her own bedroom window while the family was sleeping!!

Enough of that. I am DISGUSTED with the Minnesota Judge who SHOULD HAVE KNOWN the history of the one he was sentencing, and should have ASKED when even the defense attorney made reference to Duncan's history of sexual offender!!! I am totally disgusted with those judges in Florida that let the three off with no consequences for lying to the police and hiding/aiding escape of the man who not only raped his little victim, but also buried her alive holding her stuffed dolphin!!!

Where is not only the legal knowledge that is supposed to come with being a judge, but also the COMMON SENSE that any human being has???? With all the publicity about the scandal in the Church, have we learned NOTHING about honest to goodness pedophilia???

A family is nearly wiped out because a judge gave a convicted Level 3 sexual offender a small bail when he was being charged with sexual molestation of a six year old...a little boy and a little girl repeatedly molested, the boy is dead, and the girl rescued only by the Grace of God above. And, NOW, Duncan is being investigated for a missing little girl from two years ago....?

Lord, save us from this kind of stupidity!

From the title news article:
Judge Thomas Schroeder has said he didn't know whether Duncan was a Level 3 sex offender when Duncan appeared in his court on April 5. Duncan was charged with molesting a 6-year-old boy at a Detroit Lakes school playground in July 2004.

But Duncan's status as a Level 3 sex offender had been reported in the Forum newspaper in nearby Fargo, N.D., just three days before the hearing. And during the hearing, Duncan's own attorney told the judge, "He is, of course, a registered sex offender," according to the transcript.


From the earlier article above:

Schroeder told the station he was unclear on whether he knew that Duncan was a Level 3 sex offender when he set his bail. The county attorney's office contends that information was presented to the judge, KSTP reported.

"I don't recall what I recall because I don't exactly recall setting the bail,'' Schroeder said.

Level 3 sex offenders are considered the most dangerous and most likely to re-offend.