America's Most Wanted

I found this very interesting article regarding John Walsh and AMW. It is from 1992, but still something that should not be allowed to fall of the Web. Have a look.

Nowadays one can be portrayed as a wanton murderer on a nationally televised program, get killed by police less than 48 hours later, and have the nation invited by television to applaud the death within the week.

That fate befell Cesar Mazariego-Molina, 26, an undocumented worker from El Salvador, who L.A. County sheriff's deputies said killed rookie Sheriff's Deputy Nelson Yamamoto in a gun battle. Less than two days after the case was featured on the TV program America's Most Wanted, New York State police killed him with a shotgun blast to the back of the head.

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What ever happened to Haleigh?

I was reading some news and came across this very disturbing story. Regarding Haleigh Cumming's father and a dispute he has with his new father-in-law. The disturbing aspect of this is two fold. First, do you see how quickly the story has disappeared from the front page now that the only suspects are family members? Second, why is the father, in his deranged way, doing revenge hits on a mailbox when he should be out looking everywhere for his daughter?

Here is the problem I have. As a father of girls, I would be sleeping in tents, walking to every house I could find with flyers, pictures, anything that would help find my child. I would quit my job to search for ANY of my children or Grandchildren. It is very telling of a parent that runs out to marry a teen-aged 'girlfriend' just weeks after your child has disappeared. Does it say something of what became of Haleigh? Does it say something to WHO is involved? I find it all disgusting and in poor taste. Something happened to this child, and it had nothing to do with a Sex Offender uncle from Tennessee taking her. These two know what happened, maybe they had a drug induced violent outburst, maybe the child got into their drugs, or maybe, just maybe they were under full control of their facilities and harmed the child. Whichever happened, it is time to take these two behind the barn and get some answers. As an rSO, I am tired of being scared every time some low-rent human decides to off their kids, then scream a sex offender took them.. I grow weary of cops showing up at my house, and I REALLY despise the disregard they have for me as a person by not coming BACK and saying that they were sorry they violated my rights as a citizen by harassing me.

Ronald Cummings, father of 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings, stuffed a dead rat into his new father-in-law's mailbox, Hank Croslin told the Putnam County Sheriff's Office.

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Child Kidnapped, Police Looking for shadows

Here is a story that is beginning to sound all to familiar. Child is left in a car by parents (or parent) and mysteriously after only 'a few minutes' the child disappears. This scam is happening more and more across the country as people attempt to get over with the fear of a kidnapper, or a sex offender, grabbing their kid. 15 years ago the authorities would have lost no time in grabbing up both of these assholes and putting thumb screws on them to find this little boy. But today, due in no small part to the myth of sex offenders grabbing kids, the police spend the first precious 48 hours handing out flyers and canvassing areas looking for this child. How many rSO's have they woken up out of bed or detained illegally so far because of the hysteria caused by the ilk of John Walsh and Family Watchdog? headline below, with link to full story.

OAKLAND, CA (KGO) -- Family members of a missing disabled Fremont boy are hoping someone can help find him. Police say 5-year-old Hasanni Campbell was last seen in Oakland two days ago. He has cerebral palsy, but family members say he doesn't have leg braces on the outside of his pants.

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I hope the child is found, but I fear that too much time has been wasted by police looking for shadows instead of forcing the parents to confess their guilt. My Opinion obviously..

The myth of the high re-offense rate

Are Americans really this stupid?  Again and again I read that Americans truly believe that there is a high re-offense rate of sex offenders once they are through with Therapy and their sentences.  Here is a comment from a recent news story:

To Saffman: I don't know the registry laws in VT, but in MA a person convicted of a level one offense (public urination, etc.) are NOT listed. It is is only the level 2 and 3 offenders. And they SHOULD be listed, because they have a very high rate of re-offending. And sorry, but most of the people CANNOT be helped. And way to go for blaming parents for a sex offenders "mistake"...let me guess, it's the kid's fault, too?

Is this person making things up, or does he know something that someone else doesn't. Again and again we have seen study after study that presents facts about the re-offense rates of rSO's. And the facts cannot lie. The University of Washington, The DoJ, and several scholars have also pointed out the incredibly low re-offense rate of offenders.

However, due to the sensationalist writers of the media, you never hear of such things and thus the myth of high re-offense remains. So I challenge all of you that read here, When you see a article about the lie of high re-offense, or if you see a idiotic comment such as that above, reply to it and show the facts. Call these morons to the carpet and lash them with the real truth. Making someone look like an idiot truly does brighten one's day.

DoJ report
3.5% Re-Offense rate