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33-year-old Jesse Timmendequas lured 7-year-old Megan Kanka in to
his house in Hamilton Township, NJ. Shortly after, Megan was strangled to
death and raped. Jesse was living in a half way house and was on parole
after his second sex offense. Mrs. Kanka feels that she as well as the
other neighbors should have been notified about the fact that a repeat sex
offender was being released back into the public. I tend to disagree
strongly.
Two-hundred-thousand people also seem to agree with here in New
Jersey. They would want to know so that they could keep their kids inside
and not let them play in their own neighborhood. Mrs. Kanka would not have
let her daughter play outside if she would have known, and if she should
have done this her daughter would still be alive today. Sure it might be
nice to know, then you could take the right precautions, but if the system
does its job then you should have to worry about Jesse as much as any other
person. It is not fair to the child to limit the way he or she can play
just because a sex offender is free.
I feel that the ...
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