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Re: Man gets 1 year in prison for rape of 4 year old girl - June 16th 2009, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by PhoenixAlive View Post
The thing that scares me about this, is that in all of the articles I've read about this case so far, it mentions nothing about probation or supervision, or even conditions on his release. This man (who has committed murder before: "his convictions for shooting a man in 1982, or stabbing a woman in nearby Weleetka nearly 13 years later... Earls had been in prison for six-plus years.") is free to go back into the public with no constraints put on him at all. He may very well commit crimes like this again, and the legal system seems to be doing nothing to prevent that.
He's a convicted sex offender. I haven't looked it up to verify, but aren't there laws in the states that wherever he goes he has to make it known to authorities, and has to inform people when he moves into a neighbourhood? That seems like a large constraint that will be good at protecting the public.


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