24 Mar 2007
Molester and his parents indicted in boy's death

These people are monsters - nothing short of the death penalty would serve them properly. But one paragraph in this sordid tale struck a chord: how did this murderous clan come to be ensconced in their trailer park abode?

Ironically, the Edenfields moved into the trailer park where Christopher lived last year because of a Georgia law intended to keep child molesters away from children. Sheriffs' deputies told George Edenfield in September that he had to leave his home near downtown Brunswick because it was too close to a playground. Georgia law prohibits registered sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of schools and other places that draw children.

I've blogged about these laws before. Now we see the real effect - these insane regulations do nothing to prevent child molesters from preying on the innocent, they merely shuffle the deck, and place these perverts in new communities that have no idea there are now monsters in their midst.

A convicted child molester and his parents were indicted Wednesday on charges they molested and then murdered a 6-year-old neighbor boy, whose body was found last week in a trash bag dumped by a roadside.

(link) [CNN.com]

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