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Donna - thank you for the message you sent last week. The situation with the little girl in Florida is just awful.
I think you are right to focus on our sentencing laws. In 2005 and 2006 the Washington legislature passed a collection of laws targeted at sex offenders...
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I wrote all of my state legislators about a year ago, a personal e-mail to each which took hours and hours, asking them if they were going to uphold the Constitution of the U.S. or not, that I needed to know that. Out of all those people (40ish?), I got three responses, and they were...
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Argh. I've volunteered for things before and been turned down. It's such an impotent feeling. It must be awful being so close yet unable to something to make it better. My heart goes out to the family, friends, and community of this poor little girl.
I hope you will do the same...
I'd like to add that pedophiles will not be deterred by anything. They are what they are.
I don't care how they are stopped as long they aren't running around near our children. I'd rather them be in a nice cozy cell than that. The discussion of the death sentence is polarizing. I'd...
Yesterday I posted that I contacted my state rep, senator, and governor. As of this evening no one has responded. I did find some pdf files from 2004 when they were rewriting the sentencing laws. Basically they just p***** me off. I think I'm going to continue to pursue this. I need ideas...
I decided to be late for work and went ahead and wrote my governor and senator. Now I'm off to work a little more satisfied that I've done something though I'm still extremely saddened for this family.
Never before have I written off a letter to my state rep before, but I did just now.
Sent to Rep. Christine Rolfes
Subject: What can I do to keep sexual predators behind bars?
Hello Rep Rolfes,
In a forum I frequent there was a lot of talk about the 7 year old girl that has recently gone...
It boils down to changing sentencing laws. How can we as concerned Americans change those laws?
I AM SO SICK OF GETTING MAD ABOUT THINGS I DON'T KNOW HOW TO CHANGE!
This is every parents nightmare. I'm sitting here seething and crying for this mother... for her child...
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94 sex offenders in a 5 mile radius... She was walking home from school. So within a 5 mile radius of an elementary school there are 94 sex offenders that they would question about a missing child?
I cannot count how many times I have been furious that pedophiles are able to get out...