Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Let's protect our children

From the article

A Mason mother worried about the safety of her daughters walking past the home of registered sex offender to their school bus stop complained Monday the school system should have acted quicker to change bus stops.

“A school bus stop is like a candy store for sex offenders,” said Morie Mortashed of the Pine Hill Estates in Mason.


So you're probably thinking. The sex offender is one of these perverts who goes and kidnaps kids off of school bus stops and rapes and kills them.


But here is the crime committed by this offender

Brian Owens, 22, was arrested and convicted in 2003 in connection with allegations that he took nude photographs of two teen-aged girls between 13 and 16 and that he had sex with one of them. A felony charge of unlawful sex with a minor and another charge of illegal use of a minor in nudity oriented material were dismissed after Owens pleaded guilty to a second count of the latter charge, Warren County court records show.

Now let's break this down. Convicted in 2003, four years ago. He would have been 18 at the time of conviction, maybe younger on the day he committed the offenses.

The article doesn't say which of the girls he had sex with but does this sound like a guy who's going to troll school bus stops looking for victims?

We've now created an entire fear business in this country. To the point of insanity. I've been more than critical of school districts but how are school districts supposed to deal with each and every one of these complaints.

What's it going to take for people to get a grip.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Will she worry about the safety of someone's 15 year old daughter in the the back seat of a car with her son?