Adam Walsh Law was signed by Bush, What do you think?

Question

On the 25 anniversary of his sons brutal sexual assault and dismemberment John Walsh got to have the Adam Walsh Law signed into Federal law. On Fox News John Walsh said, "This now means that their will now be a sex offender registry in every State, even the liberal States that don`t want to have sex offender registries. Mandatory collection of DNA of sex offenders in even the liberal states that are against collection of DNA. It will solve thousands of cold cases of rape and molestations and 500 new Marshals on the street and 55 new FBI agents." It has been a 3 year fight in Congress but now it is law. With in the first few The law has already caught one child sex offender who fled from CA. and was caught in LA. because States are sharing information. He was caught with Child porn and was up to his old ways. It is now a federal beef for sex offenders to flee across State lines instead of a just misdemeanor.

Registries are no good if they are not shared with the public and other law enforcement agencies. Some States refused to do exactly that and gave rights to the offenders over the victims. http://www.amw.com/features/feature_story_detail.cfm?id=1206

http://www.billoreilly.com/pg/jsp/general/linksandinfo.jsp

Jay, Yes CA is very progressive in this field but still could not share with other States what they knew, now they can. If you lived in Vermont or Mass and certain other states you would have been unable to look up the information you wanted in SF with out having a name already, going to the sheriffs office, and proving cause to know that information on that individual.

Answer 1

I think its absolutely FREAKIN FABUTASITC! Thank God,!!!! I just wish they could've taken it a step or two further. Keep all those swine-freaks who've raped a child on electronic monitoring 24/7 (gps chips?) and if they tortured or killed someone's baby they should get the electric chair. (Uhm I know lethal injection is the preferred method of execution, but these scum deserve to feel some of the pain they've caused.)

Answer 2

You mean "liberal" states like California don't already have sex offender registry, like http://meganslaw.ca.gov ? I did not know that. I guess the time when I was checking on who was a sex offender in my very liberal city of San Francisco was just my imagination? If you're too lazy to check it, I'll sum it up for you. Its named after, you guessed it, a girl named Megan! Megan Kanka to be precise. She was a New Jersey girl who was raped and killed by a known child molestor who just moved across the street. As a result, the Kankas brought public awareness about sex offenders in the community. AND, according to the website, "All states now have some form of Megan's Law"

Show me proof that there are states that are against collection of DNA of criminals. So 500 new marshals on the street. That would equate to what, 10 new marshals for every state, and 1 new FBI agent for every state, with some states getting more than one. Wouldn't that suck if you got assigned to Texas, Alaska, or California. That's a lot of ground to cover.

Wow! What a law. I guess its a start though. But there's nothing so great about it where I'd give Bush a pat on the back.

Answer 3

So long as they concentrate on high-risk offenders and don't waste time (and my tax dollars) pestering every single person who is forced to register as a sex offender for committing a minor offense then I've got no problem with it. Too much time & money is wasted monitoring people who were convicted for one minor offense, i.e. "statuatory rape" for being an 18 y/o caught having sex with their 14 y/o girlfriend decades in the past, that sort of thing, people who never re-offend and present no danger to the public whatsoever.

They need to concentrate their efforts where it will do the most good: such as monsters who continually molest children, serial rapists, child-porn dealers, offenders who continually refuse to register, etc. That sort of person represents only about 5% of all registered sex offenders, but they commit 99% of sex-related crimes.

Answer 4

That's cool; whatever. It's sort of just a band-aid on the issue though. The law doesn't do anything preventing occurences in the first place and it certainly won't cure the offender; only make their lives miserable.

But I suppose it's a good law.

Criminalizing things does not prevent them from happening. It's been proven time and time again.

Answer 5

that may no longer the worst of what's contained in that regulation some aspects of the regulation have already been discovered to be unconstitutional and there are some those that did no longer have the middle to combat it that are spending 10 years in penitentiary for failure to conform with a regulation that hadn't been handed on the time of there conviction yet became into retroactively utilized i comprehend somebody who became into arrested and charged with breaking area of the Adam Walsh act while it became into signed into regulation however the incident became into 13 years past and he had served all his sentence a protracted time in the past, it took 9 months of struggling with to get it ruled that charging him now under a regulation that in simple terms handed for some thing 13 years previous became into against his due technique..i mean you does not think of which you would be able to value somebody with breaking a regulation that did no longer even exist would desire to be carried out yet there are some detrimental those that have been charged and convicted or plead out because of the fact they did no longer have the components to combat it

Answer 6

He used the word "liberal" in describing states that "don't want sex offender registries"??? What state doesn't want a sex offender registry????? Don't all states now have sex offender registries and why in the world would a state NOT want to have one? I think your words have been distorted. Provide a link to prove otherwise. Liberals want sex offender registries just as much as anybody else - they have children too.

Answer 7

I think it is a great law that was signed. They need tougher punishment for sex offenders. I also think that they should all be taken to a secluded island and all executed

Answer 8

It's about time!

Answer 9

what are you asking, that Adam had to die to get this, or that tis a good thing that we got it, or that other chidlren died before their states and government boys were forced into making sexual preditors accoutnable and unable to hide... are asking what we feel?

i feel sick in the stomach.

Answer 10

Great!!! Thank you Mr. Bush