Predator let loose yet again

THE idea that Queensland’s most notorious sex offender — Robert John Fardon — could be your next door neighbour is terrifying.

The public has the right to feel outraged and scared that this monster could live in their streets or be roaming free in a shopping centre next to your children.

Fardon is considered one of Queensland’s worst sex offenders and was jailed for 13 years in 1988 for the violent rape of a woman.

He committed a further rape just four months after being released from jail.

He’s been in and out of jail for rape and paedophilia for the past 50 years and child safety advocates are horrified he will now walk the streets unsupervised.

For years, Fardon had been forced to stay with other sex offenders near a jail precinct but he has this week been seen at shopping centres and catching public transport among women and children.

He had been under a supervision order that required serious sexual offenders to report to and receive visits from police, abide by curfews or monitoring and not live within certain distances of schools or children’s playgrounds since 2013, which was due to lapse last year.

Despite the Attorney-general making several attempts to extend the order, Fardon has been living unsupervised in the community since last Wednesday.

Opposition Leader Deb Frecklington wants Fardon to wear a constantly monitored GPS tracker and it’s hard to argue with her perspective given his potential to reoffend.

It’s challenging not to get angry when we live in a society where it seems the civil rights of offenders come before the human rights of the general, law-abiding public to feel secure and to be protected from predators.

When dangerous offenders chose to disobey societal rules time and again with such devastating consequences to the victims, if there is the slightest risk of reoffending there is no good reason for them not to be supervised for life.