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Thursday, March 23, 2006

Lock them up for good

It felt like a rock hit the bottom of my stomach when I read the headline on Page 3 today: "Man, 59, accused of luring girls into van."

A registered sex offender - released from state prison in 1996 after serving 18 years - is charged with sexually assaulting two girls under 10 years old. He was convicted in the 1970s of aggravated sexual assault against two girls who were under 13.

He's a Tier 3, the most dangerous, and most likely to repeat the crime. What's it going to take to lock this guy up for good? In our "Tracking Sex Offenders" series earlier this month, one released sex offender said his 27-year-history of exposing himself to young girls was his way of socializing. These Tier 3 offenders should be put away, either in a psych ward or a prison, until their dying day.

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