I am sure you are all aware of the recent kidnapping, rape, and killing of 17 year-old Chelsea King from a parking lot San Diego County after going for a run. Well there was an arrest in her case and the man that was arrested appeared in court for the first time on Wednesday. He was a man of few words, but that didn’t stop the public from speaking out. Someone even went as far as to write, “Chelsea’s blood on you—move out,” on his mothers’ garage door and when a few men tried to cover it up with paint they were yelled at saying they were protecting a guilty man. The main point of the article was that they interviewed John Walsh from “America’s got Talent.” In his interview Walsh said that he met with President Obama and while President Obama congratulated him on his 1,000 episode, they also had time to talk about the Adam Walsh Law, which was named after son, that was signed by President Bush three years ago, but was never given any funding. President Obama assured him that the law would now receive the funding that it needs. Walsh said that one of the questions that everyone asks is why this man was even out of the streets. Nobody seems to understand why, since he had been accused of crimes much like this one, he was even roaming the streets. The only answer Walsh could come up with was that the law just isn’t clear enough. “Former San Diego County District Attorney Paul Pfingst was slightly more objective.
‘I am of the view that people who do harm to teenage girls should go to Gitmo and stay there for the rest of their lives and be waterboarded,’ he said.”
I think this is so important because I am of the same view of Pfingst, I strongly believe that even if the person is accused of a crime like Gardner was, he needs to be watched closely so to avoid the opportunity to strike again, like he has been able to. It seems to me that if this man had been convicted before and if not convicted had surveillance on him this horrific crime may have been able to be avoided. This is just so important because I think people need to take a stand to get sexual predators, high priority predators, behind bars and I believe they should be there for life. What these people do to children is a horrible experience that no one should ever have to go through and we need to stand together to get these people behind bars to protect our own children.