[jesse]

TALLAHASSEE - Florida legislators from both parties are coming to the Capitol next week in agreement that some of the first bills they'll pass could have saved the life of an 8-year-old Jacksonville girl.

The death of Cherish Perrywinkle, who was abducted at a Walmart, combined with a newspaper investigation into the state's sexual predator civil commitment program have created a rarely seen unity in a process that's more often known for division and political differences.

And a package of bills that deal with sexual offender laws is ready for a vote as soon as the Senate begins its annual 60-day session. The House is expected to approve them the following week.

"If the laws we are proposing today would have been the laws a year or two years ago, Cherish Perrywinkle would be alive," said Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Shalimar and the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee chairman.

The main goal of the proposed laws will be to strengthen the Jimmy Ryce Act, which allows for the civil commitment of sexual predators once they finish their prison terms. The law named for a 9-year-old boy who was kidnapped, raped and murdered in Miami-Dade County is designed to keep the most violent sexual predators locked up. But it's become clear since it took effect in 1999 that there are loopholes.

A review team evaluates predators on a psychological basis to determine if they are a still a threat after their sentences. If they believe so, a trial is held and if a jury agrees, the predator is committed to what looks like a prison, but is technically a psychiatric treatment center. People who are committed are reevaluated and can be released if determined that they are no longer a risk -- though officials who run the treatment center have said they are never truly "cured."

Cherish and her mother were shopping when a man befriended them and offered to buy them clothing and food, investigators say. Smith said he was taking Cherish to a McDonald's in the Walmart but he instead led her out of the store. Her body was found the next day. She had been strangled. A registered sex offender, Donald Smith, is charged with her murder. Smith was released from jail the month before the death after being caught making obscene phone calls to a 10-year-old girl, making verbal threats and impersonating Florida Department of Children and Families child protective investigator.

Smith has a long history of sex offenses dating to a 1993 conviction for attempted kidnapping and selling obscene material. He had already been reviewed for civil commitment two times previously, but he wasn't eligible for another review after being released just before the Perrywinkle killing.

"This tragic, horrific case really shined a light on some of those really big gaping holes in the law that couldn't be ignored," said Lauren Book, a sexual abuse survivor who now advocates for tougher laws.

My questions are:

Why was this monster released from prison and allowed to walk among the innocent?

Why was he not immediately sent back to prison after making obscene, verbal threats to a 10 year old and impersonating a child protective investigator? A MONTH after being released!

*A review team evaluates.....* Who the heck is on this *review team* that makes an evaluation whether this human monster is still a threat to society? And if they do believe it, a trial is held and a jury then decides.

Then they are sent to a psychiatric treatment center, committed, reevaluated and determined if they are still a risk.....

But it is the consensus of the officials who run the facility they are never truly cured.

Then why are they released? Are these new laws that are being proposed to strengthen the Jimmy Ryce Act enough?

Personally, I want this man to die.

Your opinions are truly welcomed.

[TwistedSisterr]

horrible.
As long as we, as humans, have the natural sexual urges that are just in our nature (and i dont mean kiddie sex is natural), none of these sick fucks will EVER be "safe" to be released! I was almost kidnapped in 4th grade by an unregistered sex offender and I put his ass away for trying to get me into his car as I was walking home from school. Sick SOB, I get so fired up because that could have been me and I have a daughter and I would KILL for her

[Blewvane]

[ices]

Is our society sane?

We will readily pour scorn on those who cannot find a job once they are laid off but we will not allow ourselves to execute pedophiles.

They are attracted to children like I am attracted to women. Or a gay guy who likes men. Biologically programmed to fuck children is neither acceptable nor should it be tolerated.

All of them must die where ever and whoever they may be. If my child had been abducted and murdered I would murder every single one of them.

[jesse]

Originally Posted by TwistedSisterr ↗

horrible.
As long as we, as humans, have the natural sexual urges that are just in our nature (and i dont mean kiddie sex is natural), none of these sick fucks will EVER be "safe" to be released! I was almost kidnapped in 4th grade by an unregistered sex offender and I put his ass away for trying to get me into his car as I was walking home from school. Sick SOB, I get so fired up because that could have been me and I have a daughter and I would KILL for her

I was fondled at the beach in the water when I was about 10 years old. He didn't want to let go....I didn't tell anyone because I felt so embarrassed.

Keep encouraging your daughter to tell you EVERYTHING. No matter what.

And I would kill for your daughter, also.

[invertigo]

Who lets their kid walk off with a complete stranger like that?
Even if he had 'befriended' them, I would never allow my child to be unsupervised with a person I didn't even know 20 minutes prior.

[Photoplay]

Known sex offenses must be viewed as lethal at all times. A release from prison doesn’t mean they are not lethal any more. It just means they have served the prison time.
Hence. Have to be removed from society for good.
Certainly welcome to live their lives behind tall fences with guards for the rest of their lives. It’s a sexual compulsion that no prison sentence can cure. They will reoffend.