Dru Sjodin found (update: body found)

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[Starshine]

According to Fox news Dru Sjodin has been found. Conflicting reports though. One ap report says she is home, another says she has been found.

[wallcrawlr]

The last thing I wanted to see was that ugly mug.

[Big Horn]

"Dru is home" is the sheriff's way of saying her body has been found.

[Big Horn]

When will the law and the judges put these sex offenders away permanently?

[clodkicker]

We do have the death penalty in SD unfortunately this took place in North Dakota.

[Mjaye]

When will the law and the judges put these sex offenders away permanently?<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

I wish I knew. There are always those who think anyone can be "cured", and even most of the serious offenders will admit that ain't gonna happen. It's a horrible situation. The guy with 200+ victims relocates to WA state from CA with no parole conditions, etc., let's just hope they can get him for already using a bad address, a no-no for sex offenders. And some group or another will claim it's not fair to him.

[Houmatt]

You know, I never pegged you to be a defender of violent sex offenders.

I sincerely hope you will change your mind before a sex offender takes your wife or daughter away from you.

[sweetliberty]

"Wish I could remember the name of the song."

Simple Man.

[hoosierham]

No convicted MURDERER should EVER be released.

[MarMema]

But we have been fighting this battle for a long time. Out here this is nothing new at all. In fact we were the very first to go after lifetime committments for sex offenders. The rest of the country has followed our lead, but beware.

You know they sued because we were able to commit them for life, after three strikes, thanks to a previous initiative. And they won. Then the local DSHS had to find housing for them out in the public neighborhoods. Group housing for level three offenders.

The first site was chosen about 8 miles from where I live. We were part of a group that successfully fought to stop the placement.

It's a frontline battle in this state and has been for a good ten years. Since a small boy was abducted here in a park by a longtime offender who had been freed, and who cut off the child's penis. His mom went on to become an important beginner in the huge uproar here, which then led to the passing of the three strikes initiative - the one they just overturned on us.

Anyway, here is much of that story.

"Washington's sex predator law was the first program in the nation when it was created by the Legislature in response to public outrage over the Pioneer Square murder of one woman and the sexual mutilation of a 7-year-old Tacoma boy in the late 1980s. Both crimes were committed by known sex offenders."

[MarMema]

Here is a followup to the story, the battle about where to put these offenders out in the public.

We fought like tigers, and I can tell you what stopped the placement near our home, I think. I was at the meetings. The site they had chosen in Peasley Canyon is the one near our home, and it has a small stream running behind it.

The mayor of Auburn, one of 2 towns the site overlapped, got up and said to DSHS, at a huge public meeting, that he knew there were salmon in that stream. He said, "I'll keep you tied up in court for ten years". The endangered species act, lol, or the threat of using it, was probably what saved us from that placement.

God help us, though, they now have to put all these level three offenders, who have been locked up at McNeil Island until now, out in neighborhoods. Thanks to the courts.

So learn from our mistakes, if you can, and don't make the mistakes we seem to have made.

[demkicker]

I'm all for a Dru's Law for sex offenders and will write my representatives. I, too, am repulsed by the revolving door for sex offenders. California just let one loose this week on a "technicality" because his victim committed suicide and the offender didn't get the chance to "face his accuser". Reminds me of the Menendez-like defense!

We need to right this wrong and protect our society from these scumbags. The sooner the better....

[Libertina]

You are correct, as with the case last week of a CA judge letting go a man who has molested over 200 kids, sometimes the judiciary is culpable. But other times, it is our legislatures which have passed laws which sheilding these predators and then judges have little choice IF they uphold the law. It makes them look bad - but it is the law. Democracy has lots of layers of citizens groups, action committees, etc that are supposed to "get real input" so decisions can be made. Sometimes it turns out to be just another way to avoid responsibility - (as in "BLue Ribbon Committee.")

[xone]

What two 'leftist' states?

[TaxRelief]

Actually, there is no defense for violent sex offenders. Lock 'em up, throw away the key.

However, there are many cases of people accusing people of rape unjustly. If there is not solid evidence other than the victim testimony, society would be making a very serious mistake applying a one strike case to all incidents of rape.

I personally know of a young man who was charged with child molestation, by his wife, during a divorce. (She left him to move in with her girlfriend.) It was terrible.

I have no faith in the government or the courts not to misuse a one-strike law, the same way that the zero-tolerance rules are being misapplied across the country in schools. (Honor students being expelled for nail clippers and plastic knives.)

After watching the Terri Schiavo case unfold in Florida, I am equally convinced that there are far too many corrupt judges, who would happily make use of these types of laws for the wrong reasons.

Thank you for the good wishes for my girls.

[TaxRelief]

There should be a redefining of the sex offender offense based on degree of assault.

But the groups pushing for the one-strike laws are not making distinctions between types of sexual offenses. They want to apply one-strike to all, from "date-rapers" to horrors like this guy.

Keep in mind that many men are convicted of rape based on the testimony of one person and without ever having been given the opportunity to face their accusers (a right that used to be guaranteed).

[Houmatt]

Sounds like if there was a mistake made, it was by some activist judge. Why didn't anyone push to get him off the bench?

Me, I would be pushing for signatures to get the issue on the ballot statewide, and get up into the faces of those who just don't give a damn about anyone but themselves and let them know if they are looking for a fight, they've come to the right place.

[Houmatt]

Yeah, you really sound like you care about the rights of innocents.

As long as the innocent is the accused.

[TaxRelief]

Yeah, you really sound like you care about the rights of innocents.

As long as the innocent is the accused.

What on earth do you mean?

[reluctantwarrior]

This Assclown was a multiple offender and was ajudicated many times why not focus on this POS. A violent sex offender gets how many victims before he is killed or permannetly removed from society??????

[Houmatt]

Don't waste your time with taxrelief. Based on his posts here so far, it seems to me he only cares about the perp, and not the victim.