Most of the time I find myself reading the news and my reaction is mostly muted. With all of the bad things that happen that I read about, I get sort of de-sensitized. Then something like this is reported. It is hard to fathom that a guy like was ever released from prison. At the time of his release he was categorized as a “Category 3” sex offender. This terminology is used to describe a freak who is likely to be a repeat offender. So he skips his mandatory parole meeting twice, then his parole office calls authorities. Meanwhile he allegedly molests another 7 year old boy, then kills four people and repeatedly rapes two small children. I ask, why are we not keeping very close tabs on monsters like this? I realize we must let them out when their sentence is over, but if they are likely to be a repeat offender we need to be sending out a police cruiser the FIRST time they miss a mandatory meeting with their parole officer.
The surviving child (Shasta) has witnessed the brutal slaying of three family members, the repeated rape and murder of her other brother, and has herself been abducted and repeatedly been raped. I shudder to think what the rest of her life is going to be like to overcome horrible deck that that she has been dealt. May God bless her and her family and help them find the peace that they deserve.
Now I ask, what shall we do with Joseph Duncan? What punishment is appropriate for this sort of crime?
