Posted on 07/25/2005 8:55:58 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
The debate over the way Idaho monitors its sex offenders has been prompted by a couple of high profile cases. Joseph Edward Duncan the Third, a convicted child rapist, is accused of killing four people and kidnapping two kids in May.
And John Tuggle, another sex offender, is accused of stabbing and binding his daughter last Wednesday.
Officials say that Idaho has gaps in its sex offender registry laws. They say it doesn't track its most dangerous offenders closely enough.
In addition to the G-P-S tracking devices, other proposals include indefinite incarceration, like in neighboring Washington state, and lifetime probation.
By JOHN K. WILEY
Associated Press Writer
WALLACE, Idaho Authorities have found a car belonging to a registered sex offender who is on the run from allegations that he repeatedly stabbed his 12-year-old daughter and left her for dead, Shoshone County Sheriff Chuck Reynalds said Monday.
The red 1989 Ford Escort was found near a remote road on the Idaho-Montana border about 40 miles from where the stabbing occurred, Reynalds said.
"It threw us a curve," the sheriff said, because authorities had been concentrating their search for John R. Tuggle near the stabbing site.
It appeared the vehicle had been stripped of camping gear and then pushed down the embankment, he said.
Searchers will now concentrate on this area, Reynalds said.
Tuggle had not seen his daughter since she was a toddler when he showed up last week at the home of his ex-wife in Athol, Idaho, and said he wanted to take the child shopping.
Instead, they went to a remote campground north of Wallace and the girl was stabbed with a pocket knife five times in the upper body. She remained in serious condition at Sacred Heart Medical Center in nearby Spokane, Wash.
Tuggle, 37, a registered sex offender who was released from an Idaho prison last year after serving nine years for raping his 14-year-old sister-in-law, is the only suspect in the case, Reynalds said.
The car was found Sunday by a U.S. Forest Service officer about 17 miles south of Wallace near Moon Pass, Reynalds said.
There have been no reports of vehicle thefts in the area, so officers believe Tuggle may be on foot and still in the area, the sheriff said.
They say "stabbing and binding" like the binding is the worse part of it. You know, I'll take the binding, provided we leave the stabbling part out of it.
It seem pretty clear there's some kind of problem in Couer D'arlene, that's for sure.
But I'd still like to know WHY this girl's mother handed her over to her rapist, felon ex-husband who hadn't even seen the girl in a decade. I'd just really like some more info on that point. I'd also like to know the whereabouts, howabouts re: the younger brother.
This must be a stressful job for your beloved to have to receive these horrible calls and make sure it get's out.
Thank her for her service to the community.
Just hang 'em.
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