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The Constitution does not prohibit (1) long sentences in connection with serious felony child rape charges (the max you can draw in GA for aggravated child molestation is a life sentence, the same for just garden variety rape if you'll pardon the term) (2) supervised work-release instead of probation and just trusting that the little lamb will check in with his probation officer (3) involuntary confinement in a mental institution if this guy is "very dangerous and at serious threat to re-offend". It's pretty well established that these perverts who target very young children are not 'curable' and are almost certain to reoffend.
You have a problem with any of that?

#1 and #2, no problem at all. (There is no such thing as "garden variety rape", btw, or shouldn't be.)

#3 is ripe for abuse. President Ronald Reagan blasted the Soviets for locking up dissidents in mental wards (similar to what Solzhenitsyn related in his fictional book "The First Circle"), but if you're in favor of letting liberals deciding who's a threat to society and needs to be removed for that, then go for it and live with the results; I'd rather see everything handled under #1 and #2.

Or we just decide that there are folks to whom the Constitution doesn't apply. And be honest about it.

But I smell a rat. This guy stopped checking in 5 months ago and only NOW they're issuing a bulletin? Something else is up -- does the department need more money, perhaps?

Well, certainly there's potential for abuse in confining offenders in mental institutions, but it's nothing new in this country. Anybody who receives a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity generally finds himself in that position. Funny you should mention Ronald Reagan - that loony tune who tried to assassinate him was confined in a mental institution (St. Elizabeth's?) for years and finally furloughed recently, IIRC.

Unlike the Soviet Union (how embarassing to have to explain the difference to an American citizen!) involuntary committal is safeguarded with a medical panel or lunacy board (depending on your state) overseen by a superior/general jurisdiction court judge. The defendant has full rights of appeal.

And the problem with liberals is the opposite of what you propose. Their compassion for the institutionalized led them to turn them all loose in the 60s and 70s . . . they were supposed to be put in halfway houses but those were never funded or adequately supervised, resulting in scores of mentally ill wandering the streets talking to themselves and attacking folks at random. A good friend of mine was attacked and badly injured by a released mental patient in Atlanta back in the 80s -- he had no business being on the street, but due to the liberals revising the committal laws, he was wandering around believing that the CIA was trying to kill him by transmitting thoughts into his brain.

Sounds like more misplaced liberal compassion is the reason for this now-you-see-him now-you-don't sex offender being on the street.