Authorities missed dozens of parole violations that would have sent registered sex offender John Albert Gardner III back to prison and kept him from raping and murdering two teenage girls in northern San Diego County, according to a report released Wednesday by the inspector general of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Among other violations, Gardner visited the grounds of a state prison in 2008, a felony that could have brought a life sentence as a third strike, the report said.
Also, a review of the data from the GPS device that Gardner was required to wear shows that on 158 occasions in a 13-month period he violated his parole by going near schools, leaving home after curfew or visiting a storage facility.
Amazingly, parole officers were not required to check GPS units - ankle bracelets - making you wonder why they bothered putting them on at all. This is all the more reason to allow more liberal policies for concealed weapons permits . . . or scrap that requirement all together. If I cannot rely on protection from authorities against the bad guys, I would prefer to have a fighting chance of my own.
What do you say now to the parents of those girls - "Whoa, our bad?"
5 comments:
GAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
But...but...they have rights!
Hey, they collected the monthly user fee on the ankle bracelet. That's what really counts.
well, it's the "feeeeellll good" factor, doncha know?
My guess is they figured the prisoners would assume they were checking, and it would act as a deterrent. Still - unbelievable.
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