I read that there's a group of 19 sex offenders who have set up camp near Miami. They've furnished their new home with furniture, a T.V. operated by a generator, and even have a gym set up. These sad souls bemoan the fact that decent people are demanding stronger and stronger laws to keep them out of their neighborhoods.
The very thought of 19 sex offenders grouped together and living in a camp anywhere near my neighborhood gives me chills. Sorry, but criminals like this, whether they've served their time and their paroles, don't deserve to be integrated into family neighborhoods.
I understand that there are different levels of sex offences but anyone who commits these offences has a long way to go to prove they can be trusted again. Child predators should never be trusted alone around children again for the rest of their lives. A 19 year old man convicted of raping a 16 year old girl under consenting conditions shouldn't have to pay for that crime forever.
If our existing laws protected the general public properly we wouldn't have to come down so hard on "minor" sex offenders and they would be able to gradually be assimilated into society much easier. At this point not many of us trust that our precious children and grandchildren won't somehow be at the mercy of a child molester who has been allowed by the courts renewed access to children.
I can't find it in my heart to feel too much sympathy for the 19 in that camp. If they committed the crimes they were convicted of then they should expect to be shunned by society. If the offense was against a young child then they should consider themselves lucky they're not spending the rest of their miserable lives behind bars.
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