Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Savannah, GEORGIA

We're re-thinking laws restricting sex offenders from living in proximity to schools, bus stops, and playgrounds.

A registered sex offender who was previously convicted of molesting a child was living with his parents less than 600 ft. from a bus stop. A local boy went missing for a week before his body was found.

In a trash bag.

Police arrested David Edenfield, 32, and his parents on charges they molested and then murdered Christopher Michael Barrios. He was six-years-old. Christopher's grandmother lived across the street.

A Georgia law passed last year prohibits registered sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of a school bus stop. That would have barred the younger Edenfield from living so close to temptation, but a pending lawsuit prompted a federal judge last year to block that provision from taking effect.

TT - Link to story with details about the lawsuit. We can all thank the Southern Center for Human Rights. They're proud to partner with several sex offenders in the lawsuit. But somehow, we don't think those sex offenders wrote all those legal papers by themselves.

At what point do we tell those public interest organizations that they aren't serving us and they aren't serving the public?

The District Attorney said he would seek the death penalty. Would you like to take a really wild guess who's also against the death penalty?