New horrors of suspected crimes by registered sex offender John Albert Gardner III are being revealed in northern San Diego County on an almost daily basis.
Having at one time lived in that peaceful, quiet area, home to retirees and working families, I got to wondering just how pervasive our problem of sexual predators on the loose is. I visited California's "Megan's Law" website to get an idea.
It turns out that small, quiet, peaceful San Luis Obispo County has 300 registered sex offenders. Figure this is the tip of the... whatever... since so many sex crimes go unreported. What happened in Escondido-Rancho Bernardo-Poway can happen anywhere.
And the most tragic part is that prosecutors and judges don't seem to understand or resonate with the fact that sex offenders have one of the highest rates of recidivism of all crimes (averaging 4x other crime categories). Why in the world, when the State Psychoanalyst says "uh, this guy is one of the real bad ones... you oughtta go for the maximum sentence (only 10 years)" would a Prosecutor go for just six and then the Judge agrees? John Albert Gardner III served only five years and then was free to go out and stalk, torture and kill more innocent girls.
How many of you feel that the innocents are being senselessly slaughtered out of consideration for sex offenders' rights? It would seem at the very least if a sex offender does time, gets out, and commits another sex crime and is convicted, he (overwhelmingly male population) should never see the free side of civil society again. You can take it from there, I don't mind.
In the meantime, we can track the records of elected officials including DAs and Judges and see which ones fail to understand how dangerous sexual predators are. Come election time, they can go, thank you.
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