[Vision2020] Sex Offenders

Fri Jul 7 13:06:57 PDT 2006

I, for one, am not offended by this particular e-mail.

I am, however, frustrated with laws (I TOTALLY get you do not have anything 
to do with their passage) that continues to allow child sexual offenders to 
remain free like all they did was steal a loaf of bread, they've served 
their time and now they have the right to be out.  What about the children's 
rights to be free?  I for one know for a fact on several levels, those 
children will be worried, some of them sick with worry, some to the point of 
suicide, that the guy, being out again, will come after them again.  They 
worry about the "promise" the creep made to come after them, to do harm to 
them or their family, etc.  This is REAL for those children and always will 
be.

But this legal system which we now have seems either ignorant or simply 
unwilling to understand those fears and worry only about the offender's 
rights being violated.  Hang their rights!

They had NO RIGHT to go after the children, they had NO RIGHT to ruin the 
childhood of those victims, they had NO RIGHT to disrupt the families of 
those children, they had NO RIGHT force their ugliness unto the most 
innocent of our society.  Simply put, they had NO RIGHT! and yet we continue 
to foist rights unto them like all they are is mis-understood simpletons 
that we have to live with or else.

Thank you for your information, Deputy McFarland; I just wish the people 
responsible for the laws we are all forced to live with understood the pain 
and horror those laws present to those of us not privy to guards, security 
systems, etc. to protect our children.

BTW, I'd be interested in knowing what, if anything, the restrictions will 
be for Sitler when he gets out....especially given that guns are readily 
available to him through the church he will be returning to and that 
contains many of his victims.  Will he be allowed around those children?  
Hang the stipulation of "being with a guardian" - he was in an organization 
that was supposedly very closed and close-knit and he STILL was able to 
offend - repeatedly.  Would it not be possible for the church to section off 
his area (Logos Gym IS rather large, after all) and have him sit where 
children would not be allowed to go?  He could be seated in the rear by the 
exit door opposite the table that holds the sacriments, after the church has 
been entered by the congregation and their children.    Mayhap even a 
curtain could be put up so he can continue to be a part of the service but 
not be seen by the victims.  It would be nice to see the church take some 
responsibility for this fool now that they seem intent on bringing him 
around those children.

J  :]

>From: "Jennifer McFarland" <jmcfarland at latah.id.us>
>To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: [Vision2020] Sex Offenders
>Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 10:41:20 -0700
>
>
>
>Visionaries,
>
>A lot of questions have arisen during the past month or so regarding sex
>offenders. Many of the questions have had more to do with administrative
>issues that I am not equipped to answer.  Other questions have been very
>case specific and all I can really say regarding any case is that law
>enforcement considers the totality of the circumstances of a crime before
>deciding what we will charge with (or if we refer the case to the 
>Prosecutor
>for charges, he/she, too, will look at the totality of circumstances before
>making a criminal charge). I've done my best to answer questions about 
>those
>things I can speak to; other things (like where family members of the
>offender live) are not public information (implicit right to privacy being
>at issue in this case). Some of the questions and statements about sex
>offenders I have received have been biting and accusatory while others have
>been timely and appropriate.  I considered pulling the Sheriff's Office off
>of Vision2020 based on some of the discussion because I felt as though the
>questions I was being asked were intended to illicit answers that could or
>would be used to further persecute the already adjudicated rather than
>genuinely educate or inform the asker/public. Ultimately I decided not to
>pull the plug because I think the majority of Vision2020 subscribers were
>interested in "just the facts" and not whatever sensational conclusions
>could be (erroneously or otherwise) drawn from interpretation of the facts
>of the case as I presented them. I also thought it would be a little like
>scooping up all my marbles and going home.
>
>I will continue to post information about sex offenders, not because I have
>any obligation (I actually don't--see 18-8324), but because I know that 
>many
>of you have children and all of you seem interested in making Latah County 
>a
>safer and better place to live even if we disagree on how to approach that
>or what truly is "better."  However, I think that if you are truly
>interested in how the sex offender registration process works and about who
>to contact if you are displeased with anything regarding sex offenders, you
>should check out the Idaho State Police Central Sex Offender Registry
>website at  http://www.isp.state.id.us/identification/sex_offender/.  From
>this site you can view the laws and statutes regarding sex offenders as 
>well
>as see who is on the violent sex offender registry, who is living in Latah
>County (or anywhere else in the state), who is non-compliant, etc.  Of
>course, as promised, I will continue to post about sex offenders moving 
>into
>our area, etc.
>
>I suspect a few of you will be offended by the tone of this post.  I'm ok
>with that. I suspect those who are offended are the same folks who 
>continued
>to insist that Doug Wilson had done something criminal or had been 
>complicit
>in a cover-up in the Sitler case even after both PA Thompson and I said
>Wilson had in fact been very cooperative and helpful in the case. Not
>agreeing with something does not make it illegal (the same is true, by the
>way, regarding Foucachon and his ilk shooting guns off on the 4th of July).
>
>
>Take care,
>
>Jennifer
>
>
>
>PIO Jennifer L. McFarland
>Latah County Sheriff's Office
>Public Information Officer
>PO Box 8068
>Moscow, Idaho 83843
>(208) 882-2216
>Fax (208) 883-2281
>  <http://www.latah.id.us/Dept/Sheriff_Main.htm>
>http://www.latah.id.us/Dept/Sheriff_Main.htm
>
>Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
>***Ralph Waldo Emerson
>
>
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