“The wrong things our sinful self does are clear: being sexually unfaithful, not being pure, doing sexual sins…I warn you now like I warned you before: The people who do these things will not be in God’s kingdom.” (Galatians 5:19-21, English Version for the Deaf)
In one of my criminology classes my professor and former FBI agent, Dr. Wirth, discussed the ramifications of committing crimes in certain overseas countries. For example, in Turkey if you were convicted of stealing, a hand was severed. The punishment would seem to fit the crime but not here in the states; it would step on our civil liberties. Imagine the punishment for sexual predators, to me a punishment so befitting the crime (maybe not even strong enough).
A coworker told me about a website developed by John Walsh of America’s Most Wanted. Plug in your address and a registered offender map pops up of the surrounding area with a color-coded legend to follow. Click on one of the squares to see offender information including name, address, photo, description, and conviction(s). You can zoom in to see a more detailed map.
I plugged in my address…WOW…There are two rapists down the street, one child molester across the street, and a 73-year-old man convicted of “288(a) lewd or lascivious acts with child under 14 years” who lives one floor above my parents in the retirement facility next door to the church. Mom’s ears perked up when I told her the news, but now…have a feeling she would rather not know this tidbit of info about her neighbor.
Check it out. Not only will you be fascinated, you might just get the surprise of your life.
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I've looked this up before and was amazed at how many offenders are within a half mile of our address there. Imagine how it would look to God? We are ALL offenders!
I am happy to say that we have way way fewer of those types since we moved last year. And the ones we have are not as near as where we lived before. It is a sobering experience to look at those but needs to be done to protect my kids as much as I can.
(from glenda, can't remember my password!!)
It is bad, but not surprising. We live in a fallen world. I guess we can't pretend that this sort of thing doesn't exist anymore, and maybe that's one way of making sure it doesn't happen as often.
Steve
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