On July 29, 1994, New Jersey resident Megan Kanka was lured into the home of Jesse Timmendequas, a convicted sex offender, with promises of seeing a puppy (Corrigan, 2006). Once she entered his house, she was raped twice, strangled with a belt, and suffocated with a bag (Corrigan, 2006). Timmendequas was arrested soon after and confessed to this crime (Corrigan, 2006). This event outraged Kanka's parents and the surrounding community (Corrigan, 2006). They used this tragic death to create Megan's Law as an addition to the Jacob Wetterling Crimes against Children Violent Offender Registration Act, which required sex offenders to register within their counties (Welchans, 2005). Megan's Law then added the requirement that the public be notified when a sex offender moves into the area (Levenson, 2007). While this law has support from many communities, it also has been under scrutiny by those questioning its constitutionality. The question is, does this law really protect communities or does it simply punish sex offenders after they are released? …show more content…
Bull that any law that "changes the punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment, than the law annexed to the crime, when committed" is not allowed (Constitutional Law, 1998, p. 1357). When applied to Megan's Law, it is clear that the law has a negative effect, so the real question is if notification is a greater punishment than the one already imposed on the offenders (Constitutional Law, 1998). Having people know of past crimes is not as punitive as actually being locked away, so this law does not violate the Ex Post Facto clause. The fact of the matter is that Megan's Law was created and passed in order to protect communities and prevent what happened to Megan Kanka from ever happening again. If there are some adverse effects later on for sex offenders, it is unfortunate but protecting the community from sex offenders has to be a higher
Chapter four refers to specificity "as the scope of criminal law" (Bohm & Haley, 2014, p.97). These acts can be ruled not criminal if certain information is not proven to have been present when the crime was committed. The state rules for sex offenders that have been convicted of this crime be persecuted and their information made public. This reminds
The following day, 09/29/1998, while on the way to school, the nine-year-old saw the man again. She said he forced her and her 5-year-old friend behind a nearby day care center where he sexually assaulted both girls and ejaculated on the nine-year-old girl’s shirt. Police interviewed the girl later that day and she said that the man had touched her with his penis the day before, but she had not told her mother. In this interview, she did not mention that the man had ejaculated on her the second day, so her shirt was not retrieved by police. The girl said that the man said his name was “Johnny.”
The United States Supreme Court in the Packingham v. North Carolina first amendment case has ruled in favor of Lester Gerard Packingham. The state from now on may not bar social media access to registered sex offenders. The case’s build up dates back to 2002 when 21 year old college student Lester G. Packingham had a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old girl. For involvement with a minor he received a 10-12 month sentence, but having never met problems with the law, the judge required him to go on a 24 month probation and register as a sex offender. Five years had passed and in 2008 North Carolina forbid any person on the sex offender list to use any type of social media.
Policy Analysis: Megan’s Law Sexual violence, particularly against children, is a significant issue all around the world. In the early 1990’s in the United States, there were multiple well-publicized cases of sexual violence against children. From kidnappings, to rapes, and everything in between, violence was being committed against children and something needed to be done about it. In 1996, Megan’s Law was passed in response to the sexual assault and death of Megan Kanka, a seven-year-old from New Jersey (Corrigan, 2006).
The same year Hendricks was facing release Kansas enacted legislation to address the civil commitment of individuals known to be sexual predators. The result was the Sexually Violent Predator Act, Kan. Stat. Ann. § 59-29a01 et seq. (1994), known as K.S.A. 59-2901 et seq.
Megan’s Law How Megan's law came to be in 1994. Megan's law was made because of 7yr old Megan Nincole Kanaka. Megan was kidnapped by her neighbor, Jesse Timmendquas. She was then sexually assaulted and murdered. They found Megan's body the next day, July 30, 1994.
Sex Offender Pleads Guilty to 1975 Murder of Maryland Sister The following research paper is about Lloyd Lee Welch Jr who recently pleads guilty to two first degree felony murders in the abduction and murder of two Maryland sisters from a strip mall forty years ago. Welch is now serving a long prison sentence for sexually molesting a 10 year old girl in Delaware. However, he denies he killed or rape the Maryland sisters. It was spring of 1975 in Kensington, Maryland, a time of feeling safe, and parents didn't think twice about wondering where their kids were and if they were safe.
One in five women and one in sixteen men are sexually assaulted while in college. 63% of sexual assaults are not reported to police and only about 2 to 10% of reports are found to be false. In Jon Krakauer’s book: Missoula, Rape and the Justice System in a College Town. Krakauer focuses on the many rapes that occur on the college campus in Missoula. Most of the rapes that happen on college campuses are done by men, but to say all men are rapists is unjust and sexist.
New Jersey state legislation has passed “Caylee’s Law” in response to the Casey Anthony case. Casey Anthony was acquitted of the murder charges she faced in the death of her daughter. She failed to report her daughter missing until 31 days after her disappearance (Catrocho, 2015). Caylee’s Law states, “a parent, guardian, or other person with legal custody of a child who knowingly fails to report the disappearance of the child to the appropriate law enforcement agency not more than 24 hours after becoming aware of the disappearance shall be guilty of a crime of the fourth degree, where a “child” is a person 13 years of age or younger” (Caylee’s Law of 2011). “Fourth degree crimes are punishable by imprisonment of up to 18 months, a fine of
To have a law passed under the name of a victim is world-wide changing, as the terrible acts could be restored into the criminal justice system today. Although, the circumstance of any law passed by legislation is too hard to understand why would anyone want to commit such a horrific crime, the answers, we may never know. As many Americans may remember it, the world stopped on July 15, 2008 as people heard across the nation on the news, radio, and perhaps social media. A two-year old little girl from Orlando Florida was missing, and her name was Caylee Marie Anthony. Casey Marie Anthony gave birth to Caylee on August 9, 2005 in Orlando Florida.
It should negatively affect Turner’s life in the same way that his actions have negatively affected his victim’s. Prison having a severe impact on a criminal is hardly a problem. Judge Persky should be less concerned with the sex offender’s future, and instead direct his focus to the
First off, the act should be renewed in order for exposed victims live comfortably rather
The U.S. Supreme Court has found that the Constitution implicitly grants a right to privacy against governmental intrusion. This right to privacy has been the justification for decisions involving a wide range of civil liberties cases, including Pierce v. Society of Sisters , which invalidated a successful 1922 Oregon initiative requiring compulsory public education, Griswold v. Connecticut , where a right to privacy was first established explicitly, Roe v. Wade , which struck down a Texas abortion law and thus restricted state powers to enforce laws against abortion, and Lawrence v. Texas , which struck down a Texas sodomy law and thus eliminated state powers to enforce laws against sodomy. The 1890 Warren and Brandeis article "The Right To
“Teenager’s Jailing Brings a Call to Fix Sex Offender Registries,” is an article written by Julie Bosman, and published by the New York Times Newspaper. The article is written about a 19-year-old named Zachery Anderson who is listed on a sex offender registry for life. The cause of this was talking to an under aged female through a dating app called “Hot or Not.” Although, Zachary Anderson did not know that the girl who had lied about her being 17, was actually 14, he later plead guilty to what had happened. Reading this newspaper article had me thinking about all sorts of things, whether it was about the fact that Zachary had sex with a female who was under the age of consent in Michigan or the fact that he was put on the sex offender registry.
Should Sex Offenders Name be Public? It is debatable if sex offenders names should be public, some people believe is a invasion of there private life, “There is a real danger of vigilantism and publicizing their names (and the info required goes far beyond just their names) is an invasion of privacy of the wives, children and families of these offenders, which is an invasion of privacy no other class of criminal faces”(debate.org) . Others believe this is not even debatable, that Sex offenders name should be public, period, “Once somebody commits a sexual crime, they have given up their right to anonymity.