[Vision2020] Obvious reasons

[Saundra Lund]

Ellen wrote:
"My gut still has that queasy feeling. . . . "

Yours & mine both!

It is absolutely unfathomable to me that we ***ever*** have an incarcerated
PREDATORY sexual offender footloose & fancy free during incarceration.  I
sincerely appreciate LCSO PIO's Jennifer McFarland's willingness and ability
to shed a bit of light on the situation, so I *do* understand the LCSO has
nothing whatsoever to do with that (IMHO) insanity.

It also distresses me to know that there was reportedly (if one is to
believe Doug Wilson) a self-confessed REPEAT predatory pedophile footloose &
fancy free for months before his sentencing.  If reports are to be believed,
most of that time was spent in another state.  However, *some* of that time
was spent in our community, which was a real threat to ***our*** community's
children . . . and *continues* to be a *known* threat to our community's
children each time Sitler is let out for his court-approved excursions.
This is a bridge too far!

Frankly, I don't care that much of Sitler's pre-sentence free time was spent
in another community in another state because my concern for the safety of
children from KNOWN -- and in this case confessed -- repeat predatory
pedophiles doesn't stop at the Moscow City limits.  How would we as a
community feel if another jurisdiction allowed a confessed repeat predatory
pedophile to hang out unencumbered here while awaiting sentencing elsewhere?
It's CRAZY!

If my concern about keeping all children safe from known confessed repeat
predatory pedophiles makes me a "nanny," that's a label I'll gladly accept.


Saundra Lund
Moscow, ID

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.
- Edmund Burke

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-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Ellen Roskovich
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 2:06 PM
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Obvious reasons

So, let me get this right. . . there is a Idaho State Sex Offenders Registry
and Sitler is not listed because "no one who is currently in jail/prison is
listed for what should be obvious reasons."
 
OK, now I've read that Mr. Sitler regularly checks himself out of "the Latah
Hilton" two or three times a week to drive himself across state lines to
other communities.  And he's on the "honor system" while he's loose.
 
I don't get it. . . he's out and about almost as often as I am these days. 
 
If he's being turned loose, even if it is from the County Jail, why can't
that be counted as some sort of temporary  housing (which it really is) and
he be registered....complete with a  photograph for identity pursposes.
Otherwise, what's the use of a current, up-to-date registry?
 
My gut still has that queasy feeling. . . . 
 
Ellen A. Roskovich