Posted by
Bob Parks on Tuesday, April 01, 2008 11:26:38 AM
During a segment on Monday night’s O’Reilly Factor, one of his producers confronted Massachusetts State Representative Eugene O’Flaherty (D-Chelsea), demanding an answer to why he was blocking passage of Jessica’s Law in the Commonwealth. Massachusetts is one of eight remaining states that have successfully resisted the get-tough measure.
For those of you who don’t know, according to Wikipedia “Jessica’s Law was named after Jessica Lunsford, a young Florida girl who was raped and murdered in February 2005 by John Covey, a previously convicted sex offender. Public outrage over this case spurred Florida officials to introduce this legislation. Among the key provisions of the law are a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years in prison and lifetime electronic monitoring of adults convicted of lewd or lascivious acts against a victim less than 12 years old. In Florida, sexual battery or rape of a child less than twelve years old is a capital felony, punishable only by death or life imprisonment with no chance of parole.”
As far as I’m concerned, we should all spare the taxpayers the cost of incarcerating repeat sexual predators and a rather speedy execution is in order. But that’s another story.
O’Reilly never got his answer from the Massachusetts Legislature Judiciary Committee chair. Unless he’s willing to go where some have little guts to go, he won’t get that answer. So, let me give it a shot…. More...