Be more accountable

YET another child sex predator has been set free to prey on unsuspecting innocent children thanks to our flawed legal system (CP, 15/12).

After a slap on the wrist, Garri Douglas Knight was released on parole despite having undergone no sexoffenders rehabilitation courses and despite him being a proven child predator.

When has any of these predators been reformed successfully?

Are children’s lives so unimportant that we dismiss the very real threat, as insignificant? Or are they just unimportant because they can’t vote?

How many young lives have been destroyed because depraved people can access child porn sites and more importantly, what is being done to rescue the children who are filmed being brutally abused and humiliated for the pleasure of such depraved people?

Surely they can be identified with today’s technology?

It is time our judiciary and parole boards were held accountable for all the predators they allow to go free in our society.

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