In 2013, in South Carolina, Jeremy and Christine Moody murdered Charles and Gretchen Parker.
Also in 2013, in Idaho, Bradley Houser assaulted and beat Rick Perkins.
The victims of these crimes were Sex Offenders. In each of the murders, the killers admitted to planning to continue tracking down and killing Sex Offenders until they were caught. These are but three examples of a disturbing trend regarding Sex Offenders, and the link between them is clear - in every case, the Sex Offender Registry was used to identify and track down the victim.
The question must be asked: why is this happening? The stated purpose of the various Sex Offender Registries is to inform the public in order to promote awareness and safety. However, inflamed passions and the twin myths of high recidivism rates and the ineffectiveness of rehabilitation lead to beliefs such as this:
Given that the general public has proven that they cannot handle information such as the Sex Offender Registry in a responsible manner, the time has come for that information to be removed from the public view.
Of course this was all by design even lawmakers back when they first come up with the concept of Megan's Law, worn this would happen if they've made a public sex offender registry this was many times brought up in not only committee meetings but the actual floors of the different states that enacted this draconian measure and it didn't take long before the prediction came true with thousands of people and their families not only victims of assaults and even murdered with law enforcement doing little to absolutely nothing about it that's why the sex offender registry is such a failure out of design only.
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