Posted on 06/28/2008 5:44:02 AM PDT by Brilliant
Jerry Lee Williams Jr. was, authorities say, the most sinister kind of rapist: He would rape and choke, rape and choke, and sometimes he would rape and kill. All told, there were six victims... Two are dead.
And the state couldn't stop him, even after the Florida Department of Corrections forced him to wear an ankle monitor so it could keep tabs on him by satellite, the agency says.
While wearing the ankle band after his release from prison, Williams attacked two women -- killing one... Both times, the satellite worked. It tracked his every move. But there was no way for the authorities to know that he was attacking the women.
Authorities insist the satellite technology did its job.
"No one is sitting in front of a [computer] monitor, watching these guys," said Steve Chapin, president of ProTech Monitoring Inc... "It's the best supervision tool available. It's never advertised or promoted as being able to prevent a crime."
But to stop a serial rapist, you must do more than track him, said Jennifer Dritt...
"If he's not in treatment and he doesn't have . . . a deep, profound commitment to ending his behavior, then all the monitoring in the world is not going to prevent it from happening again," she said...
And there were no alarms seven months earlier when, despite satellite tracking, he choked a woman until she blacked out and raped her...
Authorities know Williams is connected to two more women who were attacked before he went to prison...
Williams took a plea deal that included a two-year prison term -- he served seven months -- followed by three years of sex-offender probation...
Kimmons' husband, Terry, ...doesn't understand why authorities were unable to stop Williams...
"They caught the guy. What are they doing?"
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
It's a sad story of liberal hard-headedness.
“Williams took a plea deal...”
They really need to start mentioning the prosecuters who offer these thugs plea deals. Things like this should dog them for the rest of their careers.
I don’t get it. Was he on house arrest? Then why not arrest him when he left his house. If he wasn’t on house arrest what good does tracking do? I’m all for ankle bracelets as a lower cost way of dealing with come criminals (rapist and killers? eh, not so much), but you have to act when someone breaks the barrier.
I have really good data showing that an extremely tight neck bracelet made of rope prevents rapists from creating additional victims. The bracelet in fact has a 100% success rate, is extremely cheap, and environmentally friendly (you can reuse the 100% organic bracelet for many prisoners, sometimes more than one procedure per day! The net carbon footprint decrease is also phenomenal).
His most recent victim, according to police, was 39-year-old Lisa Marie French. She had been raped and asphyxiated, her body found behind a Sanford warehouse Feb. 20, 2007.
Miss Lisa Marie French would be alive today if this sub human had gotten a full sentence instead of two years and probation
I hope the prosecutors knows this fact and loses sleep every night of their life
He actually only served 7 months.
Serial rapists need to be in jail, not on a string.
Oh come on!
The Lib Dems are currently working hard for felon suffrage.
Who would this SOB and his ilk vote for?
Gotta look after potential constituents (bunch of ‘em in Gitmo).
It’s not crime but an Obama special interest-they are not criminals but Liberal Democrat lobbyists.
Realpolitik,plain and simple.
Excellent suggestion. And if it's done correctly it's quick, easy and efficient.
If the prosecutors didn't offer a plea deal to rid themselves of a trial and prosecuted to the full extend of the law this woman would be alive.
I realize that's the way the system works, offer sub humans pleas deals to get them to admit their guilt to spare the county financial burden of a trial to prove their guilt.
Plea deals work great for non violent criminal activity, but for the most violent of rapist, molesters, murderers, plea deals should be rare and not very good
“NOT SO MUCH.....?”
Are you kidding.
I was using a light tone to convey a serious message, sorry to through you off...so yes I was kidding. I think ankle bracelets can save us money for non-violent criminals (and maybe keep them non-violent by not putting them in jail)—but to think that this is a good tool for murderers and rapists is just insane.
Can anyone say CASTRATION.
That would give him a reason to stop.
Gov Jindal wants it for sexual 2nd offenders in Looseeana.
SCOTUS may say Cruel and Unusual,but why is it the Muslim Arabs,who enslaved many more Africans than The West have so few blacks in their countries now?
They nipped it in the bud.
The kind of guy ropes and trees were designed for... ;)
- John
There is no barrier. They are required to be home during curfew hours (and monitor probation workers can check that) but they are free to roam (go to work for example) outside of curfew.
The ankle monitor simply tracks where they are and where they go.
Nope, then he’d only use a different ‘object’ to vent his anger on his victims.
No racist hyperbole just historical fact.
If one studies the history of slavery in East Africa (rather than the leftist ideologically motivated politically correct overcoverage of West African slave traffic—one,by the way,with a shorter and much less brutal record),one would discover the Muslim slavers were keen to make sure most male slaves were unable not only to sully the Muslim women but to procreate.
Dr.David Livingston,for instance,saw first hand the controled genocide of Africans in East Africa by Muslim slavers.
In Khartoum alone,the removal of slave testicles and/or penises was a profitable cottage industry making the males more profitable for export to the Middle East.Illustrations of the many varieties of surgical and less surgical (more bolt cutters than scalpels,as it were),have been published in several historical publications.
This is all historical record.
Perhaps you have suffered from Government education?
No, they need to be on a string. See #6 above.
Solution:
“OK, Mr. Rapist, you are wearing a special type of ankle bracelet... Not only can we track your whereabouts at all times, but if you venture beyond the area the court has specified, you will receive an electric shock that increases with intensity the further you roam from your controlled area. Should you find yourself outside your predetermined radius for 2 minutes or more, or 5 feet or more, your bracelet is preprogrammed to explode. The choice is yours. We now return you to society.”
This is nonsense. There is no cure for his problem so why let him roam and feed on society.
If he wasn’t on house arrest what good does tracking do? I’m all for ankle bracelets as a lower cost way of dealing with come criminals
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What a waste ankle bracelets are ... What a stupid idea ...
OK .. put an ankle bracelet on me .. I walk into a house or building with a metal roof .. wrap the bracelet in aluminum foil ,, leave ,, RAPE and KILL ,, return to the building with the metal roof ,, remove the foil ,, walk out and the tracking shows I never left the building...
What Geniuses we have working in our gov’t..
Can anyone say CASTRATION.
That would give him a reason to stop.
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Hormone pills and Viagra would negate that as a deterrant ,, plus he would probably live longer with a lower chance of heart disease..
Before reading any, I am willing to predict that many FR commentators will display "a deep, profound commitment to ending his behavior."
Hmm... Spending more than 7 months in prison for his first series of brutal rapes might have prevented it from happening again. Just a suggestion.
This story is so absurd it almost reads like something out of The Onion.
Does Florida still use the electric chair treatment?
Sorry, the prosecutor and judge would have to care about the victim in order for that to happen. Since they didn't care the first time around, why should they care now that another innocent has paid for their stupidity.
Can’t fix stupid.
I fixed that for you.
Once the prosecutors and judges responsible start being beaten up, robbed, and assassinated due to their complicity in miscarrying justice, others will start to develop some form of common sense and hand down proper sentences....if only to keep themselves out of harm’s way.
Florida uses lethal injection. There was a moratorium sometimes last year due to a botched execution but Christ came through and removed the moratorium determined and signing the death warrant for this monster who kidnapped, raped and killed an 11-year old boy.
The execution took place as planned.
Just that castration serves it’s purpose,whether in the cause of evil or justice.
How many serial (and kid rapists are ALL serial) child molesting eunuchs have YOU heard of?
It’s like how many executed murderers have murdered again?
No problem—oh,and I’m sorry for the uncalled-for crack about your schooling.
Middle-age mood swings I suppose.
What did Bob Seager sing,”I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then?”
Apparently,this absurdity becomes clearer with age.
Its public record information I believe.
And well worth compiling and publishing.
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