1,800 Sex Offenders Missing (Florida) [View All]

[barbaraann]

Posted on Tue, Mar. 29, 2005
HERALD WATCHDOG | CRIME

1,800 sex offenders missing

The kidnapping and murder of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford has raised new concerns over how to track the more than 30,000 registered sex offenders and predators living in Florida.

BY JASON GROTTO AND LUISA YANEZ
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One month before a registered sexual offender allegedly kidnapped, raped and murdered 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, Florida law enforcement agencies had lost track of at least 1,800 other sexual offenders statewide, according to a review of Florida's Sexual Offender/Predator Registry.

John Evander Couey, the man who would confess to killing Jessica, was not even listed as one of them because no one knew he wasn't living at his reported address and was staying near the Lunsfords.

The fact that Couey wasn't marked as missing raises questions not only about how aggressively the state tracks offenders known to be on the lam, but how many others have absconded and aren't noticed at all.
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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11253735.htm

Missing Children in Florida:
http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=usMapSearch&missState=FL&searchLang=en_US


If I lived near Pinellas Park instead of in the far NW corner of the US, I would print up flyers with these facts and hand them out to the Terri Schiavo protestors and ask them if they would demand action from Jeb Bush and the Florida legislature to protect LIVING children.