27 sex crimes: An in-depth review into preventative measures by analyzing past crimes.
Why the Child Safety Act and other bills (now HR-4472) before Congress lack Vision. No preventative measures!
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Various Members of the 109th Congress mentioned these 27 victims' names as supporting reasons for A) The Child Safety Act (House version HR 3132); and, B) The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (Senate version S 1086). The House and Senate versions includes several other bills.
The essence of the Congressional argument is, these were vicious sex crimes, committed by sex offenders that, failed to register -OR- should have been registered, and therefore the proper response is to -Get Tough on Sex Offenders- hence, the bills, which effectively -TRACKS- all known (prior) registered sex offenders and punishes those who do not comply severely.
That may be a plausible conclusion, IF you fail to look at the circumstances of the current crime, and the background of the offender/s! When you review those underlying background facts, you will realize why the proposed legislation will do nothing to prevent future crimes like these, and little to prevent other types of sex crimes.
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"Vision: the art of seeing things invisible." - Jonathan Swift / "The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." - Winston Churchill
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Offender, had or did not have, a prior sex offense (proportionately displayed) |
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Unsolved (4) |
Not sex crimes (3) |
NO prior sex offense (8)
(Registry not applicable) |
YES prior sex offense/s (12)
(One was not properly registered)
(Three, registry not applicable) |
Victim / Offender Relationship (proportionately displayed)
SO=Committed by a Sex Offender Non SO=Committed by a person with no history of a sex offense |
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Unsolved (4) |
Not sex crimes (3) |
Family (3)
SO(2) Non SO(1) |
Acquaintance(9)
SO(7) Non SO(2) |
Stranger(8)
SO(3) Non SO(5) |
Cases which are either unsolved (so there is missing offender information) -OR- the case is not a sex crime.
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Cases where the offender had a prior sex offense and REFUSED therapy (6) -or- therapy WAS NOT PROVIDED (3) -or- Unknown (3) |
??-Missing information
NA-For various reasons the column is not applicable to that case |
| Victim (Age) |
State/Year |
Case Type |
Victim
Offender
Relationship |
Prior SO? |
Was a
Registered
SO? |
Offender
Refused
Therapy? |
No Prison Therapy Provided |
Offender |
Comments |
| Amber Hagerman (9) |
Texas (1996) |
Unsolved |
?? |
?? |
?? |
?? |
?? |
Unknown |
Amber Hagerman, who was 9 years old at the time, was riding her bike when a neighbor heard a scream. The neighbor ran out and saw a man pull Amber off of her bike, throw her into the front seat of his truck and drive away. Four days later, Amber's body was found in a drainage ditch 4 miles from her house. Her kidnapping and murder remain unsolved. |
| Adam Walsh (6) |
Florida (1981) |
Unsolved |
?? |
?? |
?? |
?? |
?? |
Unknown (persons who confessed were never charged) |
On July 27, 1981, Adam and his mother went to a mall in Hollywood, Florida on a shopping expedition. They went into a Sears's store where Adam took an interest in a video game display. Mrs. Walsh continued shopping while Adam played the game. With the exception of several minutes, they were within eyesight of the child nearly the entire time. When the mother returned for Adam, he was not where she left him. Two weeks later, Adam's severed head was found in a canal at Vera Beach, some 120 miles away from the mall where he was kidnapped. Adam's body was never recovered. |
| Jacob Wetterling (11) |
Minnesota (1989) |
Unsolved |
?? |
?? |
?? |
?? |
?? |
Unknown |
On October 22, 1989, Jacob was abducted at gunpoint near the Wetterling home and has not been seen since. |
| JonBenet Ramsey (6) |
Colorado (1996) |
Unsolved |
?? |
?? |
?? |
?? |
?? |
Unknown |
JonBenet was a child beauty contestant who was found horribly murdered in the basement of her own home after a party. After years of trying to railroad her parents and brother, the police finally allowed a private detective to enter the case. He immediately showed that the killer's DNA was present in the evidence. Despite there being "15 known sex offenders in her neighborhood alone", an exhaustive search of all DNA databases has come up empty. Since virtually all known sex offenders' DNA is included in these databases, it is unlikely in the extreme that JonBenet was murdered by a prior SO, certainly not an RSO. |
| Wonderbaby (6 months) |
Texas (2005) |
Parental Abuse |
Parents |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
Parents:
*Ivan Castaneda (22)
*Donna Marie Norman (19) |
*From Poe's speech as posted on his personal website. |
Chris Byers (8)
*Steve Branch(8)
*Michael Moore(8) |
Arkansas (1993) |
Occult |
Stranger |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
Damien Wayne Echols (19)
Jason Baldwin (16)
Jessie Lloyd Misskelly Jr. (17) |
*Steve Branch & *Michael Moore were killed at the same time as Chris Byers (Poe never mentioned them).
"The West Memphis police said that Echols was the leader of a makeshift satanic cult, and that the murders were ritualistic and intended to confer demonic power on the killers. The cops said that Echols' accomplices were two other local boys: a soft-spoken 16-year-old named Jason Baldwin and Jessie Lloyd Misskelley Jr., a mentally handicapped 17-year-old with an I.Q. of 72." |
| Maryann Measles (13) |
Connecticut (1997) |
Revenge murder |
2 of the offenders slept w/victim who later charged them with rape |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
Alan M Walter Jr.
Keith M Foster (28)
Jeffrey A Boyette Jr.
Ronald A Rajock (32)
Deaneric Dupas III
June Bates Seger (24)
Maggie Mae Bennett
Dorothy M Hallas |
Measles roamed with the group doing drugs and having sex regularly. However, Measles being 13 accused Walter and Foster of raping her after they had consensual sex. The rest is history. None of the offenders had any prior sex offense, but did have drug offenses, burglary, and forgery offenses.
The Death Of Maryann Measles: A troubled group of young people is charged with kidnapping, raping and murdering 13-year-old Maryann Measles of New Milford five years ago. |
| Christy Ann Fornoff (13) |
Arizona (1984) |
-- |
Paper Route Customer |
Yes |
NA |
?? |
?? |
Donald E Beatty |
Christy Fornoff was 13 years old when she and her mother went to the Rock Point apartment complex to collect money from the customers on the young girl's paper route. In the brief moments when the mother, Carol, lost sight of her daughter, Christy was grabbed by the apartments' handyman. Donald Beatty, 29, molested and raped Christy. He placed her arms behind her back and tied a sheet over her upper body and head. He smothered the child to death. Donald Beatty was eventually convicted for the kidnaping, rape and murder of Christy. During the courtroom ordeal, the Fornoffs discovered what sort of monster had abducted their baby. He had an extensive history of molesting children. Including his own. In the year before Rock Point hired him, Beatty had been fired from three different apartment complexes here in the Valley for erratic sexual behavior. He was both a peeping Tom and someone who generated numerous complaints from tenants concerned about his contacts with young girls in the neighborhood. |
| Pam Lychner (31) |
Texas (1990) |
Not Murdered |
Business Acquaintenance |
Yes |
NA |
?? |
?? |
William David Kelley |
William David Kelley, (TDCJ # 00584294) was convicted in 1991 of aggravated kidnapping with intent to commit sexual assault and is currently serving a 20-year sentence. His victim was Pam Lychner, JFA's co-founder and first president. Pam narrowly escaped the attack when her husband arrived at the scene. Kelley received a 20-year sentence after pleading guilty to aggravated kidnapping in the attack on Pam and later was convicted for assault in the same case and another year was added to his sentence. Kelley was a welder working for a cleaning company at a house the Lychners were preparing to sell in August 1990. Kelley later posed on the phone as a potential buyer and arranged to meet Pam at the house. Pam felt something was strange and Joe decided to accompany her. Joe's presence was unknown to Kelley and while Joe was checking out another part of the house, Kelley ambushed Pam from a closet. He knocked her down and held his hand over her mouth. The noise brought Joe Lychner from another part of the house. He fought Kelley and held him in a closet for police. Officers found a knife, plastic tarps and duct tape that Kelley apparently intended to use on Pam Lychner.
Kelley had an extensive criminal record and had been convicted of aggravated kidnapping, indecency with a child and sexual assault before the attack on Pam. He also had convictions for burglarizing a vehicle and a home, driving while intoxicated and evading arrest. He received a probated sentence in the 1982 aggravated kidnapping case but was returned to prison on a violation. He was released on Mandatory Release, the scourge we have been fighting for so long, on both sex offenses. |
| Michelle Vick (14) |
Washington (1998) |
-- |
Boyfriend |
*Yes |
Yes |
?? |
?? |
Tomas Mendez (18) |
*Fourteen-year-old Michelle Vick was enamored with Tomas Mendez, then 18 and on parole for a child rape conviction. She wrote his name on everything, preceded by "te amo," Spanish for "I love you." Michelle's mother forbade her from seeing him, but she told friends she and Mendez were going to Mexico. Michelle disappeared in June 1998. Hunters found skeletal remains in October 1998. In March 2000, the remains were identified as Michelle's, and the homicide investigation began. Mendez likely left Grant County in late 1999 or early 2000. Police say he's their only suspect. (The door to Chief Randy Blackburn's small office in Mattawa Town Hall features a wanted poster. On it, a stocky young man in a white T-shirt and close-cropped black hair stares out at visitors. He is described as Tomas Mendez, a registered sex offender and "a person of interest . . . sought for questioning in the murder of Michelle Vick." Mendez likely left Grant County in late 1999 or early 2000. He may be in Mexico.) (Texas, Peace Justice Eddie Howard, Precinct 4, presiding Magistrate’s Docket Charges filed: 12-10-2000: Tomas Mendez was charged with driving while intoxicated.) |
| Megan Kanka (7) |
New Jersey (1994) |
-- |
Neighbor |
Yes |
NA |
Refused
On both prior offenses.
See end of chart. |
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Jesse Timmendequas |
( In 1979, he confessed to the attempted sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl in the blue-collar suburb of Piscataway. He was given a suspended sentence, on condition that he undergo therapy. He didn’t, and was subsequently sentenced to serve nine months in a county jail.)
(On February 2, 1982, he was sentenced to 10 years at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center, a prison for sex offenders. After six years he was released because of good behavior.) (Timmendequas had been released earlier from Avenel, New Jersey's prison/treatment center for compulsive, repetitive sex offenders. Timmendequas had constantly refused treatment during his stay at Avenel.[Criminal Justice Ethics, January 1996, Alexander D Brooks, 'Megan's law: constitutionality and policy.' ] Though he had been sentenced to seven and a half years, he "maxed out" after only six because he had earned ...) |
| Jessica Lundsford (9) |
Florida (2005) |
-- |
Neighbor |
Yes |
Not Compliant, living w/his family members at address near victim |
. |
*None provided.
See end of chart. |
John Couey
On probation |
* In news article: "In April 1991, a 5-year-old child who lived near the Tittles was riding her bike outside. Couey would later say he went into the child's yard to watch her, then called her over to him behind the house near the air-conditioning unit. "Want to play hide and go seek?" he asked. "She said yes, so we did," Couey told the Kissimmee police in a taped statement. Then he asked her to sit with him. "She sat on my lap - voluntarily. I didn't force her to do it, voluntarily." In unemotional, detached terms, he described how he exposed himself to the child and got her to touch him. "I did not molest her," he said. When the child's mother called for her, Couey fled. Couey told the police "this was not the first child he had ever touched, however, this is the first time he was caught," the investigator's report said. He also admitted to molesting a relative's child. As he did after his 1978 arrest, Couey asked for psychiatric help. "Personally, I feel prison ain't gonna help me," he told the police. "I feel that I need help for myself . . . I don't want to go to prison, I want help for myself." Sentenced to five years in prison, he was released in two. |
| Amie Zyla (8) |
Wisconsin (1996) |
Not Murdered |
Neighbor |
Yes |
Yes |
Refused
See end of chart. |
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Joshua Wade (Juvenile) |
When Amie Zyla was 8 years old she was assaulted by Joshua Wade, then 14, who was a neighbor of hers. Wade was convicted of a misdemeanor and sent to a treatment center. Wade spent the rest of his adolesence at Ethan Allen School in the Town of Delafield. He was then released when he turned 18 and his criminal records were sealed. |
| Dru Sjoden (22) |
North Dakota (2003) |
-- |
Stranger |
Yes |
Yes |
Refused
See end of chart. |
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Alfonzo Rodriguez |
Served his max sentence on prior sex offense, but did not qualify for civil commitment, and was released |
| Jetseta Marrie Gage (10) |
Iowa (2005) |
-- |
Family Acquaintence |
Yes |
Yes |
Refused
See end of chart. |
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Roger Paul Bentley |
Bentley is being held on $2 million bond and is charged with kidnapping, sexually abusing and then killing 10-year-old Jetseta Gage. Bentley is a convicted sex offender who's on the state's Sex Offender Registry for lascivious acts with a 7-year-old girl. Records show that in November 1994, a judge sentenced him to the maximum five years in prison. Three months later, Bentley was transferred to prison in Mount Pleasant, which offers a sex offender treatment program that Bentley refused to take part in. He was released after serving 2½ years because of credit for good behavior which can cut a sentence by more than half. "He refused treatment, and we did all we could. And we kept him until the last day. But the last day came and he left," said Elizabeth Robinson, of the Iowa Board of Parole. "If they're not getting treatment in the prison and they're not getting treatment in the institution, we have a problem," Robinson said. |
| Amanda Brown (7) |
Florida (1998) |
-- |
Acquaintenance of mother |
Yes |
NA |
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*None provided.
See end of chart. |
Willie Crain Jr. (53) |
Crain was convicted of Amanda's death on Monday. The little girl vanished Sept. 11, 1998 after she and her mother, Kathryn Hartman, had spent an evening with Crain. Hartman had invited Crain, whom she had met the day before at a bar, over to her mobile home for dinner. She, Amanda and Crain later fell asleep together on Hartman's bed but when Hartman awoke the next morning, Amanda and Crain were gone. Amanda has not been seen since.
Prosecutors are expected to tell jurors about Crain's criminal history of child molestation. In 1985, he pleaded guilty to five counts of sexual battery involving girls under age 11. According to police records, Crain abused the girls between July 1982 and May 1984. Some of the victims were as young as seven-years-old. Crain reportedly threatened one victim with a knife and told her that if she told anyone about their sexual encounter, he would carve her up and use her as crab bait. A 1985 police report tells how Crain befriended one woman just so that he could get close to, and eventually molest, her seven-year-old daughter. The girl, who endured years of abuse, said that one day Crain beat her legs with a gun, then raped and threatened to shoot hear because he disapproved of her clothing.
Though Crain was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the child molestation charges, followed by 60 years of parole, he served only six. Just one year later, a judge granted his defense attorney's request to convert Crain's strict community supervision to probation. Sadly, Crain committed his crimes before new laws were adopted to prohibit early termination of probation for sex offenders — laws which would have made it impossible for him to serve less than 85 percent of his sentence. Crain also failed to fall under Florida's Sexual Predator's Act — that state's version of Megan's Law — because his crime was committed before July 1996. |
| Sarah M Lunde (13) |
Florida (2004) |
Not charged with a sex offense. |
Dated Mother |
Yes |
Yes |
. |
*None provided.
See end of chart. |
David Onstott (36) |
NO SEX OFFENSE CHARGED: -- (RUSKIN, Florida (CNN) -- A convicted sex offender who once dated the mother of Sarah Michelle Lunde confessed to killing the 13-year-old girl, Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee said Sunday. ... The girl's partially clothed body was discovered Saturday morning in an abandoned fish pond about a half-mile from her home. It was not clear whether she had been sexually abused, Gee said. ... Onstott told police that between midnight and 5 a.m. April 10, he went to the family's house looking for the victim's mother, who was not at home, Gee said. The girl, who was alone in the house, invited him inside and became involved in a verbal confrontation with Onstott, which led him to put her in a choke hold, rendering her unconscious "and eventually causing her death," Gee said.)
Onstott, of 3510 Petrova Circle in Ruskin, was convicted in 1995 of sexual battery on a Hillsborough acquaintance. She testified that he knocked on her door, asked to use the bathroom, then threw her to the floor and raped her. A jury convicted him. In a letter to the court asking a judge for leniency in his rape sentence, Onstott said the jurors didn't have all the information they needed to come to a verdict. He said they never got to hear about the plaintiff's drug history and that he never forced himself on her sexually. It was a case, Onstott said, of exchanging cocaine for sex. |
| Alexandra Nicole Zapp (30) |
Massachusetts (2002) |
-- |
Alexandra stopped at restaurant where Leahy worked |
Yes |
Yes |
Refused
See end of chart. |
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Paul Leahy |
A convicted rapist charged.... with randomly stalking and stabbing to death a Rhode Island woman at a rest stop has a violent criminal record littered with sex crimes and recently got out of jail for trying to molest a teenage girl, records show. ``He's just a mean bastard,'' one law enforcement source said of 39-year-old Burger King cook Paul Leahy. ``This is real bogyman stuff.'' Leahy, a registered sex offender, served 13 years in prison for a sickening knifepoint rape in a Brockton pizza shop in 1984. The same year, he was convicted of wielding a knife while terrorizing a 13-year-old girl in Brockton. Last year, he was released from jail after serving six months for drunken driving and soliciting sex from a 13-year-old girl in East Bridgewater in 2000. Police said that early yesterday morning as he took a cigarette break, Leahy followed 30-year-old charitable organizer Alexandra Zapp to the women's room of the Route 24 rest stop and attacked her as she came out. Zapp, who stopped to use the facilities as she drove home to Newport, R.I., was brutally stabbed to death during a violent struggle. Leahy was nabbed at the bloody scene by a state trooper who heard the ruckus.
One victim Schwartz never got to work for is Alexandra Zapp. That's because Paul Leahy is one of the many offenders Schwartz never got a chance to work with. Leahy had been in and out of prison; he did 13 years at one stretch for aggravated rape, wrapping up his sentence in 1998. Most recently he served a brief prison sentence for "enticing" a minor; having served his full term, he was ineligible for the state's Intensive Parole for Sex Offenders program, but he was placed on probation when he left prison. Then he struck again, just a few miles away from the MTC. Last July, Leahy allegedly attacked and killed the 30-year-old Zapp at a rest stop in Bridgewater. Like most sex offenders, Leahy had spent his years of incarceration without undergoing treatment and then walked out to rejoin society with minimal supervision. |
| Dylan Groene (9) |
Idaho (2005) |
-- |
Stranger |
Yes |
Yes |
Kicked out
See end of chart. |
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Joseph Edward Duncan III |
.(Excellent history of Duncan) Extremely bad background of sexual assaults of other children |
| Christina Long (13) |
Connecticut (2002) |
-- |
Boyfriend |
No |
NA |
NA |
NA |
Saul Dos Reis (25) |
(By outward appearances, Christina Long didn’t seem like a troubled teen. She was a cheerleader, an altar girl and a 6th-grade honor student at St. Peter's Catholic School in Danbury, Conn. But Christina’s life came to end last May, when the 13-year-old was killed by a man she had met online. Her story may have been one of the first Internet-related deaths of a child, but it is not an isolated case, reports Correspondent Vicki Mabrey ... Christina lived with her aunt Shelley Riling. Her parents’ divorce had been bitter and her mother moved away. Christina continued to see her father on weekends, and Riling tried to make her life as normal as possible, providing her niece with everything a teenager could want, including a new computer. ....
Riling made a shocking discovery. “I realized that she was talking to strangers,” Riling says, “not kids from school. This one boy was saying, ‘I'm sorry; I'm glad you got your period. I'm glad you're not pregnant. And I'll wear a condom the next time.’ And that was really shocking to see that. Very shocking.” Police also learned that Christina had had a secret sexual encounter only a week earlier with another man – his screen name was "Hot es300" – and that she had planned to meet him again May 17, the night she disappeared. Investigators soon tracked Hot es300 to Saul Dos Reis, 24, a Brazilian national who worked in his family’s restaurant and lived with his wife in Greenwich, Conn. ...
Charged in her death, Dos Reis pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial. When 60 Minutes II interviewed him in prison, he said Christina had approached him online. He claims an instant message from Christina popped up on his computer screen one day and they began chatting online. .... At home, Christina was online talking graphically about sex and had created her own Web site. She was using the screen name "Long2HotForYou.” Her aunt guesses that she was exploring her sexuality through the anonymity of the Internet, which is remarkably typical, says former FBI profiler Ken Lanning. “Every kid is unique, and in some ways maybe she did things more than another kid,” says Lanning, who has spent 20 years studying both the behavior of sex offenders and their victims. For investigators like Lanning, Christina Long’s case brings to light a disturbing truth that they say society is reluctant to talk about: Many of the young victims are not forced or even tricked into these meetings. They go willingly.
According to police, Dos Reis confessed to strangling Christina Long as they were having sex. Police say it was a dangerous form of sex that went too far. “I’m not a killer,” Dos Reis told Mabrey. He claims he tried to save Christina by administering CPR. "If he could see he was in trouble, why didn't he take her to the hospital,” asks her aunt. “Why didn't he try to save her?" ) |
| Samantha Runnion (5) |
California (2002) |
-- |
Dated Neighbor in same apt. complex |
*No |
NA |
NA |
NA |
Alejandro Avila (30) |
*Acquitted of earlier charges of molestation of person he was dating in that apt complex. Avila was molested himself as a child by his uncle. |
| Nicole Parker (8) |
California (1993) |
-- |
Neighbor |
No |
NA |
NA |
NA |
Hooman Ashkan Panah (23) |
(Justice Carlos Moreno acknowledged that the defendant, Hooman Ashkan Panah, “was a youth who, before this crime, had no prior record of any serious offenses” whose “journey from his native land”—Iran—“to this country was an arduous and perhaps traumatic one.” ... Nicole disappeared Nov. 20, 1993, while playing with a softball and mitt outside her father’s Woodland Hills apartment. Her body was found stuffed in a suitcase in the close of Panah’s bedroom in an apartment he shared with his mother across the courtyard.) |
| Cary Ann Medlin (8) |
Tennessee (1979) |
Mental
Illness |
Stranger |
*No |
NA |
NA |
NA |
Robert Glen Coe |
*First sex offense in Florida but was declared not fit for trial and never convicted. (Complete story with case appeals and news reports) Mentally ill (Coe has a long history of family and drug abuse, repeated arrests for exposing himself in public and had been committed to mental hospitals here and in Florida on four occasions prior to his murder case.) |
| Sherrice Iverson (7) |
Nevada (1997) |
-- |
Chance meeting in a Las Vegas Gambling Casino |
No |
NA |
NA |
NA |
Jeremy Strohmeyer (17) |
(Police say Strohmeyer is one of two teen-agers shown in grainy Primm Valley hotel surveillance tapes that caught the images of Sherrice darting into an arcade restroom at 3:48 a.m. Sunday. Moments later, a young man is seen following her into the restroom. Twenty-five minutes after that, he walked out. The girl's body was discovered by a hotel employee about 5 a.m. propped on a toilet in a locked stall.) (Complete News Article History) |
| Polly Klaas (12) |
California (1993) |
-- |
Stranger |
No |
NA |
NA |
NA |
Richard Alan Davis |
Rankin and Howard ran a check for outstanding warrants. It came up clean. However, they did not run a check for background. If they had, they would have discovered that they were dealing with a man who had convictions for robbery, burglary, assault, kidnapping and who had a long history of violence against females. They would also have realized that he was on parole and had just violated it. (Full story) |
| Danielle Van Dam (7) |
California (2002) |
-- |
Neighbor |
No |
NA |
NA |
NA |
David Westerfield (49) |
Prosecutors say Danielle was stolen from her room, sexually assaulted and suffocated by David Alan Westerfield, a 50-year-old engineer who lived just two doors away. Investigators found Danielle's blood on Westerfield's clothes and child pornography, including images of a young girl being raped, on his home computers. The prosecution will seek the death penalty at his June trial.
On Feb. 27, a team of volunteers discovered Danielle's naked body near a cluster of oak trees in a trash-strewn lot 20 feet from a busy street. The medical examiner concluded the body was too decomposed to determine how she died or whether she was raped.
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| Carlie Brucia (11) |
Florida (2005) |
-- |
Stranger |
No |
NA |
NA |
NA |
Joseph Smith (37)
On probation |
(The body of an 11-year-old girl whose abduction was captured by a surveillance camera has been found in a church parking lot and a mechanic has been charged with her murder, officials said Friday. ... Smith, 37, is believed to be the tattooed man in a mechanic's shirt who was seen in the car wash's surveillance video leading Carlie away by the arm Sunday evening. ...
Smith has been arrested at least 13 times in Florida since 1993, according to state records. He was arrested in 1997 in Manatee County on kidnapping and false imprisonment charges, but was acquitted a year later. He served 17 months in state prison for heroin possession and prescription drug fraud and was released on New Year's Day 2003. He was arrested eight days later on a cocaine possession charge and was placed on probation for three years.
He also was placed on probation for aggravated battery in 1993 and heroin charges in 1999. A state Department of Corrections official said Thursday that a probation officer had asked a judge on Dec. 30 to declare Smith in violation of his probation because he had not paid all his fines and court costs. Probation official Joe Papy said Circuit Judge Harry Rapkin declined to find Smith in violation, which could have returned him to jail.) (Excellent background of case) |
Various Members of the 109th Congress mentioned these 27 victims:
Amber Hagerman (9)
Adam Walsh (6)
Jacob Wetterling (11)
JonBenet Ramsey (6)
Wonderbaby (6 months)
Chris Byers (8)
Maryann Measles (13)
Christy Ann Fornoff (13)
Pam Lychner (31)
Michelle Vick (14)
Megan Kanka (7)
Jessica Lundsford (9)
Amie Zyla (8)
Dru Sjoden (22)
Jetseta Marrie Gage (10)
Amanda Brown (7)
Sarah M Lunde (13)
Alexandra Nicole Zapp (30)
Dylan Groene (9)
Christina Long (13)
Samantha Runnion (5)
Nicole Parker (8)
Cary Ann Medlin (8)
Sherrice Iverson (7)
Polly Klaas (12)
Danielle Van Dam (7)
Carlie Brucia (11)
Only Twelve of the offenders of these victims had a prior sex offense/s!
The circumstances of those twelve offender's prior therapy program, on previous sex offense/s, or proof therapy was refused or not provided by the state, if known, is provided here.
The question is: How did these offenders get released back into the community without having completed a therapy program?
While mandating that therapy be taken there are recognized problems that offenders face.
The refusal of the state to provide any immunity from revelations in therapy (of other uncharged crimes or acts), none should be provided for murder, but in other cases there should be some sort of immunity.
The use of revelations in later civil commitment proceedings.
Prosecutors make deals (Plea Bargains) regularly and here it should be done also, especially when the goal is to get therapy for all involved.
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| Offender |
Victim (Age) (State) (Year) |
Circumstances of offender's prior therapy program, on previous sex offense/s, or proof therapy was refused or not provided by the state, if known. |
| Donald E Beatty |
Christy Ann Fornoff (13)
AZ 1984 |
Cannot find any reference indicating any prior therapy program, for earlier offense, but that does not mean there was no therapy. |
| William David Kelley |
Pam Lychner (31)
TX 1990 |
Cannot find any reference indicating any prior therapy program, for earlier offense, but that does not mean there was no therapy. |
| Tomas Mendez |
Michelle Vick (14)
WA 1998 |
Cannot find any reference indicating any prior therapy program, for earlier offense, but that does not mean there was no therapy. |
| Jesse Timmendequas |
Megan Kanka (7)
NJ 1994 |
In 1979, he confessed to the attempted sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl in the blue-collar suburb of Piscataway. He was given a suspended sentence, on condition that he undergo therapy. He didn’t, and was subsequently sentenced to serve nine months in a county jail.
On February 2, 1982, he was sentenced to 10 years at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center, a prison for sex offenders. After six years he was released because of good behavior. See: "Timmendequas had been released earlier from Avenel, New Jersey's prison/treatment center for compulsive, repetitive sex offenders." Timmendequas had constantly refused treatment during his stay at Avenel.[Criminal Justice Ethics, January 1996, Alexander D Brooks, 'Megan's law: constitutionality and policy.' ] Though he had been sentenced to seven and a half years, he "maxed out" after only six because he had earned ...
"But both sides say that all sex-offender treatment programs are particularly frustrated by the many offenders who do not open up to treatment. People who were at Avenel at the time say Mr. Timmendequas never seemed engaged in therapy.
A former inmate testified before a New Jersey legislative task force on Avenel in 1994. Some inmates refuse to go to treatment at all, he said.
"You have other people like Jesse Timmendequas, who will go to a group and sit there," said the inmate, who testified with his identity kept confidential. "They sit there silently, whether it is someone else who has the floor or when the therapist says 'It's your turn to have the floor today.' They kind of muddle their way through."
Edward D. Balyk, a therapist at Avenel, remembered Mr. Timmendequas. "He was a pouter," Dr. Balyk said. "Then he'd go hide. He spent a lot of time in bed."
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| John Couey |
Jessica Lundsford (9)
FL 2005 |
Florida does not provide sex offender therapy to those it puts in prison!
In a February 5, 2006 news article: "The tragedy is that for 20 years Florida ran a widely admired, well-functioning rehabilitation program in a special prison for sexual predators. Then the program's funds were stopped in 1989 by then-Gov. Bob Martinez and the Legislature. There followed a long period when convicted sexual offenders received no treatment in state prisons. But in 1998, the Legislature approved the Jimmy Ryce Act, ... ..." (Note: Jimmy Ryce Act created a civil commitment center but did not provide any therapy in the prison system.)
In a April 24, 2005 news article: "Many people who need and want help don't get it. One example: John Couey. He requested mental health assistance for nearly three decades. He told police in 1991 that he had a problem but had not received help to "control his sexual attraction for young children." Now, judges routinely order sex offender counseling after prison. But many offenders have slipped through. Both Couey and David Onstott, accused of murdering 13-year-old Sarah Lunde, were convicted of prior sex offenses. Neither has received treatment.
"There's a lot of people who are running around out there from years past who haven't been touched by treatment," said Bob Whitford, a Tampa psychotherapist who treats sex offenders. Florida used to have limited sex offender programs in its state prisons. Inmates could be sent to three hospitals until 1989, though the waiting list was long. Former Gov. Bob Martinez cut funding for the programs, however, and now the prisons offer no specific sex offender treatment. Many counselors think the prison programs should be revived. Through treatment, someone like Couey would have raised red flags, therapists say.
In another news article: "In April 1991, a 5-year-old child who lived near the Tittles was riding her bike outside. Couey would later say he went into the child's yard to watch her, then called her over to him behind the house near the air-conditioning unit. "Want to play hide and go seek?" he asked. "She said yes, so we did," Couey told the Kissimmee police in a taped statement. Then he asked her to sit with him. "She sat on my lap - voluntarily. I didn't force her to do it, voluntarily." In unemotional, detached terms, he described how he exposed himself to the child and got her to touch him. "I did not molest her," he said. When the child's mother called for her, Couey fled. Couey told the police "this was not the first child he had ever touched, however, this is the first time he was caught," the investigator's report said. He also admitted to molesting a relative's child. As he did after his 1978 arrest, Couey asked for psychiatric help. "Personally, I feel prison ain't gonna help me," he told the police. "I feel that I need help for myself . . . I don't want to go to prison, I want help for myself." Sentenced to five years in prison, he was released in two. |
| David Onstott |
Sarah M Lunde (13)
FL 2004 |
Florida does not provide sex offender therapy to those it puts in prison! NOTE: Onsott has not been charged with a sex offense against Sarah Lunde.
See news article under John Couey, comments pertaining to David Onstott. |
| Willie Crain Jr. |
Amanda Brown (7)
FL 1998 |
Florida does not provide sex offender therapy to those it puts in prison! So although he had prior sex offenses he received no therapy while in the Florida prison. |
| Joshua Wade (Juvenile) |
Amie Zyla (8)
WI 1996 |
In a news article: As documents released at this newspaper's request last week reveal, Wade was headed down this road years ago. A juvenile proceeding sent him to a treatment center for indecently touching a 9-year-old girl when he was 15. The records show that he made almost no progress in treatment and so was sent to Ethan Allen School until he was 18 because he was dangerous. Even his own mother didn't want him home because she didn't think he was ready. Disturbingly, his records reveal that he admitted in treatment that he had 16 victims whom authorities didn't even know about.
In a August 2, 2005 news article: Joshua M. Wade, who spurred lawmakers to broaden community notification procedures for sex offenders under the so-called Amie's Law, rebuffed treatment after an arrest on a sex offense charge when he was a juvenile, a prosecutor said. "He had an opportunity back in juvenile court to get treatment for this," Waukesha County Assistant District Attorney Brad Schimel said. "He didn't take advantage of it." |
| Alfonzo Rodriguez |
Dru Sjoden (22)
ND 2003 |
In a news article: Erickson took the motions under advisement and postponed two others dealing with Ney's contention that the death penalty unfairly targets ethnic minorities and countering Wrigley's contention that Rodriguez refused sex offender treatment in prison in Minnesota. The next hearing is scheduled for Sept. 30. |
| Roger Paul Bentley |
Jetseta Marrie Gage (10)
IA 2005 |
In a 3-29-2005 news article: Bentley is being held on $2 million bond and is charged with kidnapping, sexually abusing and then killing 10-year-old Jetseta Gage. Bentley is a convicted sex offender who's on the state's Sex Offender Registry for lascivious acts with a 7-year-old girl. Records show that in November 1994, a judge sentenced him to the maximum five years in prison. Three months later, Bentley was transferred to prison in Mount Pleasant, which offers a sex offender treatment program that Bentley refused to take part in. He was released after serving 2½ years because of credit for good behavior which can cut a sentence by more than half. "He refused treatment, and we did all we could. And we kept him until the last day. But the last day came and he left," said Elizabeth Robinson, of the Iowa Board of Parole. "If they're not getting treatment in the prison and they're not getting treatment in the institution, we have a problem," Robinson said. |
| Paul Leahy |
Alexandra Nicole Zapp (30)
MA 2002 |
In a 2003 article: Barbara Schwartz came to Massachusetts from the state of Washington 10 years ago (1994) to run the sex-offender treatment program at the Massachusetts Treatment Center (MTC) ("for the Sexually Dangerous," it used to be called) in Bridgewater. She transformed an embarrassment into a national model, recognized by the US Department of Justice's Center for Sex Offender Management and by the nonprofit Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers. Schwartz is an internationally known expert in the field; her books are standards. She has, by her own estimate, sat face-to-face with more than 10,000 sex offenders, including some of the worst that humanity has to offer. And to the best of anyone's knowledge, only one sex offender who passed through the Bridgewater program when it was run by Schwartz has gone on to commit another sex crime (Paul Leahy).
DISINCENTIVES FOR THERAPY:
One victim Schwartz never got to work for is Alexandra Zapp. That's because Paul Leahy is one of the many offenders Schwartz never got a chance to work with. Leahy had been in and out of prison; he did 13 years at one stretch for aggravated rape, wrapping up his sentence in 1998. Most recently he served a brief prison sentence for "enticing" a minor; having served his full term, he was ineligible for the state's Intensive Parole for Sex Offenders program, but he was placed on probation when he left prison. Then he struck again, just a few miles away from the MTC. Last July, Leahy allegedly attacked and killed the 30-year-old Zapp at a rest stop in Bridgewater. Like most sex offenders, Leahy had spent his years of incarceration without undergoing treatment and then walked out to rejoin society with minimal supervision. [snip]
Indeed, we do it almost every day. When a sex offender is caught and sentenced, typically to a seven-to-10-year term in state prison, DOC officials will encourage him to volunteer for treatment. But his attorney will advise against it. This is because, in order to enter sex offender treatment, an inmate must waive all rights to patient confidentiality. Everything he tells his therapist can be used against him later, if the state tries to commit him to the MTC.
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| Joseph Edward Duncan III |
Dylan Groene (9) ID 2005 |
On the recommendations of a Pierce County probation officer, a judge suspended the sentence and ordered Duncan to enter the sexual offender program at Western State Hospital in Steilacoom, Wash.
While there, Duncan told doctors he had his first homosexual and heterosexual experiences when he was 12. He said when he was 15 he forced a 9-year-old to have sexual contact with him at gunpoint. Duncan told doctors that when he was 16 he tied up six boys, ages 6 through 10, and forced them to have sexual contact with him.
Duncan later said he made up those stories to be accepted into the hospital and avoid prison. In March 1982, state hospital officials said Duncan was no longer amenable to treatment after he left the hospital grounds and peeped in the windows of nearby homes. A judge revoked his suspended sentence and Duncan began serving his time in a state penitentiary.
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