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7-12-2006: Will Congress Actually Allow This? |
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A FEDERAL Juvenile Sex Offender Registry!
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7-11-2006 National:
Congress Considers Bill To Include Juvenile Sex Offenders On Federal Registry |
.Congress has been considering a new bill that could help protect families from sex offenders by making the records of juvenile offenders public. (STATE) Web sites such as ... contain the names and addresses of registered sex offenders. However, some people have been pushing to require offenders under the age of 18 to register their information Online as well. [snip]
However, juveniles might soon learn the hard way. A new bill being pushed through congress could include juvenile sex offenders on a new federal registry. Currently, each state has a sex offender registry where the public can look up sexual predators or offenders. The names, photos and addresses of offenders can be found in the registries, but anyone under 18 is not be included on the lists. [snip]
The law protects the names, pictures, and addresses of juveniles. That could change if the new bill passes, but many Jacksonville residents said they think passing the bill could create problems.
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: by News4Jax.com
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.While the article says that "Congress has been considering a new bill .." that is simply not true, maybe the House has been considering such a bill, but the Senate, I doubt it very much!
Why do I say that, simply because in House bill HR-4472 (a morphed bill) juveniles are included, but in the Senate bill S-1086 only juveniles convicted as an adult are included.
Now, a little background: HR-4472 was passed by the House and sent to the Senate, and S-1086 was passed by the Senate and sent to the House. However, the bills are so vastly different that neither the House nor the Senate will pass the others bill. A stalemate so strong that even a Joint Conference seems unlikely. I could be wrong, only time will tell.
Referring to my Joint Conferees panel above I noted another possibility, quote "OR- either/both could craft a new bill as the result of the back office wrangling, pass it and send it to the other for their approval [all in one day] (however, the original bills passed would be dead).
Look at the news article "A new bill being pushed through congress ..." sounds like the House is tired of the stalemate and has crafted a new and likely more vicious bill. Now they specifically target juveniles and who knows what else at this point.
The comment "has been considering" is very upsetting in that, if true, it has been behind closed doors, secretly, something like how HR-4472 was morphed together without anyone's knowledge, except possibly a select few.
If folks remember, HR-3132 was passed by the House, sent to the Senate and died there (rightfully so it was harmful). So, Rep Sensenbrenner then crafted HR-4472 by putting within it all that once was HR-3132, then morphed in other bills (some bills never presented to the full house) as well. The result HR-4472 was even more harmful than HR-3132.
Now we have a similar circumstance, in that, an even newer bill has now been crafted targeting juveniles at a minimum. History is again repeating itself.
Juveniles came into the limelight when Amie Zyla (now 18) was molested at age 8 by Joshua Wade when he was 14. Then at age 24 Joshua reoffends (he videotaped children taking a shower) and is convicted, sentenced to prison for 25 years and 15 years supervision thereafter. Although he was registered at the time, the law did not require public notification of his juvenile offense against Amie.
Amie hears about this new offense goes to her lawmaker (Rep. Mark Green [WI]) and gets him to pass a law to make juvenile records public in Wisconsin. Then, with him, she goes to Congress to try to get them to do the same for the entire nation. This was part of HR-3132 and HR-4472 which the Senate would not accept.
Now, the story about Joshua Wade that Amie, Green and Sensenbrenner has not told anyone:
"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.
In a 8-2-2005 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."
"Wade's public defender contended that the juvenile justice system was ill equipped to treat Wade after he disclosed that his makeup was shaped in part by being sexually assaulted by his grandfather. And, after he was released from a juvenile correctional facility, Wade, then 18, was left on his own, according to attorney Samuel Benedict. "There was virtually no planning for his discharge," Benedict told Circuit Judge Ralph Ramirez. "They took him to the Salvation Army shelter and left him at the door. "They essentially said, 'Go figure it out yourself.' "
No therapy, but that fact is hidden! I'd be remiss if I failed to mention how many other victims were killed by prior offenders who either, refused to take therapy -OR- the state failed to provide a therapy program for them. The victims names are: Megan Kanka, Jessica Lundsford, Dru Sjoden, Jetseta Gage, Amanda Brown, Sarah Lunde, Alexandra Zapp, Dylan Groene and his family. None of the bills coming out of Congress include any provision for therapy in state prisons!
Tomorrow morning, Thursday (7-13) at 10 AM the U.S. House has a scheduled session. Notice there is nothing significant on the calendar, except that, Rep. Sensenbrenner has the floor. Any bets on whether he, or someone else, will or will not introduce the talked about, new and likely, more revengeful bill?
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