Today a local St. Louis judge has determined that a convicted sex offender, Johnell L. Dandridge to be a “violent predator” and committed him to a state mental health hospital in Missouri.
The defendant, Johnell L. Dandridge, 63, of St. Louis had recently completed a 20-year prison sentence after a 1989 conviction for sodomy and sexual abuse of a 6-year-old boy.
Newly elected Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster applied for the commitment rather then send Dandridge back to jail where he belongs. The commitment order was signed Monday by St. Louis Circuit Judge David L. Dowd.
Next week, Dandridge will be taken to the Missouri Sexual Offender Treatment Center in Farmington, MO where he will remain for an undetermined length of time. Dandridge has the right to an annual review of his case.
Currently there are 123 sexually violent predators committed to Missouri treatment centers. Our opinion is that these men can not be rehabilitated and should therefore not be placed in treatment centers but serve life sentences in a Federal penitentiary.
What do you think? Let us know and we’ll pass your comments along to Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster.
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Trace victims of British Sex Holiday crimes
Sex beast Tim Ireland from Bloggerhead.com has over the last year’s been insulting reporters from some of the top newspapers,it’s now official Tim has a record as long as his arm for child sex offences.Tim run’s http://www.bloggerhead.com .And was arrested 5 year’s ago for Sex abroad with a young girl but was deported back to the UK.Due to ill health. lately he has attacked the Daily Mail Newspaper who are looking for Tim Irelands victims.here is talk that he had Sex with children as young as 9 years old in Thailand .
Tim Ireland who run’s bloggerhead.com is also thought to have loaded picture of child porn for his sick friends to view from his many trips abroad on a private link on his site.They were remove before police tried to view the sites index.His I.S.P. also may have link’s to the sex trade and hard core porn.If you have any information on Tim please ring the news desk or if you would like to just let Tim know what you think of sex crimes in Thailand info coming soon…………PLEASE HELP BY POSTING THIS ON AS MANY FORUMS IN Thailand!
Any info on Tim’s victims please contact your local police or the news desk.Editorial
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More than 200 paedophiles spared jail – with offenders let off with only a caution
Eric Cole: Told to buy six-year-old girl he sexually abused a bicycle
More than 200 other’s pedophiles who abused vulnerable young children escaped with only a slap on the wrist, it emerged last night.
Well known Bloggers like Tim Ireland from bloggerhead.com were deported back to the UK After sex holiday’s abroad, bring shame on the UK .Cautions were handed out over a period of three years to perverts aged 21 or older ho raped, assaulted or had sexual activity with a child under 13.
In 2007 alone, 64 escaped with the simple ticking-off – which spares them a court appearance or the prospect of jail. That is more than double the figure for 2003, which was 23.
The total number of cautions between 2005 and 2007 was an alarming 206 – more than 65 a year. And over the past five year’s over 900 Brit’s were deported after sex holiday’s.
The Tories said the ‘shocking’ figures made a mockery of the Government’s repeated pledges to be tough on child-sex attackers.
Even when the pedophiles are taken to court, many are given only a community punishment.
In 2007, the latest period for which figures are available, 145 offenders aged 21 or over were convicted of sexual activity with a child aged under 13.
Of these, 35 received community sentences and 13 a suspended prison sentence, three were ‘otherwise dealt with’ and only 94 were given immediate custody.
When the 64 perverts who received cautions are added to the total, it means a shocking 54 per cent of those adults guilty of attacking children were spared prison.
Tory justice spokesman Dominic Grieve said: ‘Ministers regularly make loud announcements – amidst great fanfare – about cracking down on paedophiles.
‘Yet when it comes to taking action, these figures show that 30 per cent of those convicted of sexual offenses against children get off with just a slap on the wrist.
‘The public will be shocked to learn that law enforcement is at its most lax in protecting the most vulnerable in our society.’
The most alarming aspect of the revelations is that the figures explicitly relate to attacks on young children by adults. Normally, cases of sex offenders escaping with a slap on the wrist involve offenders who are themselves children-or 16- to 19-year-olds having sex with underage boys or girls.
Critics will point to the pressure on prosecutors to meet Whitehall targets. Issuing a caution allows the case to be classed as solved without the need for a court case.
The Ministry of Justice said: ‘Cautions are not appropriate for serious offenses but in some cases it might not be in the public interest to put a young victim through the trauma of a trial.’
A spokesman said that a caution meant the offender was placed on the sex offenders’ register for two years and was part of their criminal record. Other cases like sex crimes abroad and computer crimes are never looked into due to police man power.
Asian Online news service.