Post by Jennifer on Jun 4, 2007 23:02:49 GMT -5
May 28, 2007
An animal abducted, raped and buried Jessica Lunsford alive. Few people in this nation are capable of such monstrous behavior. To put teen sex or any act in the same category as Jessica or Megan diminishes the brutal deaths of these precious children.
In her name, Jessica's Law has spread like wildfire across the United States, calling for residency restrictions, tougher registration laws, increased notifications and even the death penalty. How sad that her own brother, hardly a man himself, will now be subject to a lot of these regulations, restrictions and nightmares (for consensual teenaged experimentation) in his dead sister's name. On May 27, 2007 this was the headline:
Brother Of Jessica Lunsford Faces Sex Charges
In Springfield, Ohio 18 year- old Joshua Lunsford stood before a Clark County judge facing criminal charges of unlawful sexual conduct with a 14 year-old. He pleaded not guilty and his bond was set at $5,000. Today’s roster does not show him as being an inmate in the county jail but his nightmare is just beginning
Mark Lunsford has traveled the country, hawking Jessica’s Laws. Now he has a child who will be subjected to those very laws. In a he said/she said case, she is always believed. If an incident actually happens there is sometimes DNA evidence to prove innocence. If an incident never happened there is nothing to work with. I don’t know what Joshua’s situation is but he can expect prison time and lifetime registration.
I ask people to look at this one family and compare what happened to Jessica and the accusations made against Joshua. Should both cases be considered on the same level? Should Joshua be considered as deranged and dangerous or as sick and incurable?
Perhaps he, and many others, could be viewed as having made a mistake in judgment and deserving of a second chance. Perhaps we should save the majority of those sex offender labels, registration, residency restrictions and all of the other extras for a second offense. In 90 to 95% of cases there would be no second offence.
Our nation can be intelligent and look at these issues in an adult, truthful manner and deal with them rationally. The alternative is to continue acting like crazy people with no ability to see the many layers beneath the surface. Today it is the Lunsford family under the gun. Tomorrow it could easily be your family
www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=28162
An animal abducted, raped and buried Jessica Lunsford alive. Few people in this nation are capable of such monstrous behavior. To put teen sex or any act in the same category as Jessica or Megan diminishes the brutal deaths of these precious children.
In her name, Jessica's Law has spread like wildfire across the United States, calling for residency restrictions, tougher registration laws, increased notifications and even the death penalty. How sad that her own brother, hardly a man himself, will now be subject to a lot of these regulations, restrictions and nightmares (for consensual teenaged experimentation) in his dead sister's name. On May 27, 2007 this was the headline:
Brother Of Jessica Lunsford Faces Sex Charges
In Springfield, Ohio 18 year- old Joshua Lunsford stood before a Clark County judge facing criminal charges of unlawful sexual conduct with a 14 year-old. He pleaded not guilty and his bond was set at $5,000. Today’s roster does not show him as being an inmate in the county jail but his nightmare is just beginning
Mark Lunsford has traveled the country, hawking Jessica’s Laws. Now he has a child who will be subjected to those very laws. In a he said/she said case, she is always believed. If an incident actually happens there is sometimes DNA evidence to prove innocence. If an incident never happened there is nothing to work with. I don’t know what Joshua’s situation is but he can expect prison time and lifetime registration.
I ask people to look at this one family and compare what happened to Jessica and the accusations made against Joshua. Should both cases be considered on the same level? Should Joshua be considered as deranged and dangerous or as sick and incurable?
Perhaps he, and many others, could be viewed as having made a mistake in judgment and deserving of a second chance. Perhaps we should save the majority of those sex offender labels, registration, residency restrictions and all of the other extras for a second offense. In 90 to 95% of cases there would be no second offence.
Our nation can be intelligent and look at these issues in an adult, truthful manner and deal with them rationally. The alternative is to continue acting like crazy people with no ability to see the many layers beneath the surface. Today it is the Lunsford family under the gun. Tomorrow it could easily be your family
www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=28162
