We need to change things....

The latest incident of a sexual nature with underage children, Rep. Mark Foley, of Florida exchanging raunchy e-mails with a teenage boy, a former congressional page leads me to question our present society.

Either we are experiencing a massive peak in pedophiles or we are paying more attention to what the average citizen is up too in the privacy of their own lives. It certainly appears that we are seeing more sexual attacks upon children than at any other time in our history.

As a police officer for most of my life, I experienced my share of juvenile investigations. I had a real problem with people entering sex with children and there were times I was under orders not to be near the arrest for fear I would attack the individual. Of course, this would have never occurred and the department was only trying to protect the suspect as well as my own career, but that was how severely it affected me at times.

It reached a highpoint when I was involved in a high profile investigation and it sickened me so badly I asked to be removed from the case as well as juvenile investigations altogether, returning to driving a patrol car brought some sanity back into my life. I much more preferred fighting crime then experiencing the dredge of humanity and I enjoyed the rest of my time.

Perhaps the answer is to create harder punishment for these disgusting aspects of society, even going as far as some countries and instituting the death penalty for sexual crimes against children. I for one am all for it and would vote on a law in a heartbeat.

We need stiffer punishment for child sex crimes instead of our “feel-good” let us train them, medicate them and send them into society as long as we create a sex crime database. Stupidity is thy name for this type of punishment, it does not work and now we see perverts filing litigation against cities attempting to ban them from moving in and winning!

I have often said that we try to resolve everything with a holding hands and skipping through the countryside doing good deeds for people and this will not work and will never work. Just ask John Walsh of America’s Most Wanted if he feels we have effective punishment for child sex offenders and be prepared for his answer and remember he once had a son named Adam.