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 Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:48 pm Post subject: Who think this law should past |
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Mother in call for 'Mark's Law'
Mrs Cummings wants the law to be changed
Mrs Cummings wants the law to be changed
A bereaved mother has appealed to MSPs for a new law requiring the police and councils to tell people if a convicted sex offender is living in their area.
Margaret Ann Cummings, whose son Mark was murdered by a known sex offender in Glasgow last year, presented a 5,000-signature petition at Holyrood.
It calls for Mark's Law in memory of her eight-year-old son.
MSPs decided that Holyrood's justice committee and the Scottish Executive should look at changing the law.
Complete reform
The tracking of sex offenders is high on the political agenda following the murder of 11-year-old Rory Blackhall in Livingston last month.
A man whose body was discovered by police investigating Rory's death had appeared in court charged with abusing three girls, but failed to return after being granted bail.
Ministers will respond to a report into the operation of the sex offenders register in about six weeks.
Mrs Cummings has been campaigning for a complete reform of the sex offenders monitoring system.
She said: "If it was any other crime the police would inform you who was doing it.
I've had long term concerns regarding sex offenders and the lack of information communities are given
Sandra White
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"They are not willing to inform us who is living next door to us and who is living round about.
"We are not asking for names and addresses. All we want is to be told, 'yes, they are in your area'."
Her local MSP Paul Martin raised concerns about the current strategy for housing sex offenders.
The Labour MSP for Glasgow Springburn said: "The case of Stuart Leggate was that he, as a result of being identified in another part of Scotland, felt the need to take up residence in Charles Street, where Mark Cummings was murdered.
"That was not a managed process, that was Stuart Leggate managing his own housing prospects."
In response, petitions committee convener Michael McMahon said: "We will pursue it with as much vigour as we can to ensure that we get some clarification on where the legislation can be amended to address the concerns of Mrs Cummings, given the tragedy that she has experienced."
Glasgow Nationalist MSP Sandra White said: "I've had long term concerns regarding sex offenders and the lack of information communities are given."
Dunfermline East Labour MSP Helen Eadie added: "Paul (Martin) has spoken very well on this and everything that he says chimes I'm sure with the grave concerns that there are across Scotland on this very important issue." |
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| There is a law in the united states that allows for a judge, as part of a sex offenders sentence, to force the sex offender to inform all of the people in his community that he is living there, and that he is a convicted sex offender on X number of counts. He is escorted by a uniformed police officer, to ensure that everyone knows the truth, and that everyone goes unharmed. |
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Sadly in New Zealand there is still no such law - farmers and home owners are taking the law into their own hands, doing their own research and driving sex offenders out of their comunitys, the bad thing about this being they are being driven into another one, Resently a group of parents started harassing a man they thought was a sex offender, although he was really just an inoccent man that fit the description they were given.
I Think Sex Offenders should be given the death penalty (NZ needs the penalty back) OK, so there is proof that it dosn't deture offenders but it lowers the rate of re-offending by a heck of a lot, and that way no mothers will have to sit up late at night wondering why their child has not come back from the neighbours house and no father has to watch his childs every move around the street, study the new neightbours, everybody who desereves it will be safe. |
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Adults who sexually molest children are the worst scum on Earth. I wouldn't mind seeing some permanent damage inflicted. You could kill him, or if he is a guy, castrate him and publicly burn the offending object.
See how many sex offenders there are after that. |
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