Tornoe’s Toon: Those 9-year old Perverts
Cross-posted at Laugh!
So Delaware can simultaneously have some of the toughest set of rules in the nation when it comes to registering sex offenders who are younger than 14 (at least one in Delaware is as young as 9), yet our system couldn’t come together over a course of 15 years to prosecute a predator who is accused of sexually abusing 103 of his patients?
Unreal.
State Rep. Melanie George (D-Bear) has a bill that would allow Family Court judges to decide if children younger than 14 (mandated by the Adam Walsh Act) should be listed on the registry. Of course, she can’t get it out of committee because legislators don’t want to be painted as soft on sex offenders in lieu of the Earl Bradley case.
Let’s hope common sense prevails over politics.
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Tags: Adam Walsh Act, Delaware sex offender 9-year old, Delaware sex offenders, Dr. Earl Bradley, Melanie George
Meanwhile, we let the actual pervs get away for 15 years.
it’d be better if there was a cardinal with its back turned too… just sayin
In her teen years, when Miss Melanie would go missing for extended periods of time (run away), would she have insisted her partner be branded as a ‘sex offender’? How about if Daddy wanted him charged?
Or was that her sister pulling those stunts on poor ole Lonnie boy? Ask around…………..
Pure idiocacy on behalf of the legislators who wont sign on to this bill. First, lets challenge the claim that a 9 yr old is a sex offender. At 9 a child is exploring themselves, siblings and friends. This idea that Delaware MUST have the strongest laws in the nation should also be challenged. If you want to discuss child abuse lets look at the Catholic Church. Do a google on child abuse and see how many ministers, rabbis and folks of the cloth are abusing. Next, in the 1980’s Boystown in Omaha Nebraska was found to have delivered children as young as 8 to republican events around the country. The children were drugged and taken by plane from Boystown all over the country for these events. One young woman who testified was considered to have committed perjury and sentenced to jail, because she refused to recant her story (and those of other children). The children claimed they were taken not only to the White House, but to republican events around the country. . A Lawyer John Decamp filed a case in court. A state senator delivered evidence to the FBI, who then lost it.DeCamp also took the case to John Conyers who scheduled a hearing. The morning of the hearing, 16 republicans walked in, shut the meeting down and put all the documents under national security. I recall Mike Pence being one of the 16.
These children stated they were raped by men in police uniforms, judges, law makers etc, and all the children had the same testimony. Turns out the republican operative who ran Boystown made so much money he bought a jet to deliver these children to these events. So, if we assume that child abuse is rampant everywhere, in every profession, why havent the legislators signed on to this bill. What the hell are they afraid of? A judge must be able to go outside the guidelines on these children due to circumstances we are not aware of. I know a disabled boy who was labeled by the State as an sex offender and turned out the kid had Huntingtons disease which affected his brain causing deterioration. That child was labeled regardless of his disability and finally died choking on a cheese sandwich in a facilty in Dover. Had a Judge been able to take testimony from the childs doctor and experts who would never have been labeled and he would have received treatment for his real disease. The child was placed by the state in an facilty in Dover, was without supervison even though the facility knew he had trouble swallowing, someone gave him a cheese sandwich and he choked to death. So there are many aspects to what age we should be calling a child a sex offender…certainly not age 9 or 14. We must give the Judges the ability to go around these horrific mandatory sentencing laws. Legislators should step up and sign on permitting the judges to judge each case on its own merit. If they refuse, they should be called out for “NOT protecting these minors”.