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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY AUGUST 30, 1995 Opinion Leavitt A few days ago, I bought a Continued from Page 6 state a chance to protest that bill. The fifty hearings conducted by the Utah Sentencing Commission gave very few people a chance to protest. It appears that very few people knew about the hearings. If you will note on the Spectrum article, the little 2 1 2 inch by 3 inch notice to the people about the hearing: Commission Director McConkie says, You would think people would be more interested in the sentencing of criminals than wilderness issues. McConkie and you should take into consideration that all the people in your state are very well acquainted with the wilderness issues. Those issues have been front page news day after day, month after month. But Senate Bill 287 has had very little published about it in southern Utah. I dont know about the northern part of your state. Common sense alone tells me that in a city the size of St. George, Utah, with a population of approximately 35,000 (city) nearly 50,000 (with surround- ing areas), if only thirty people showed up at the hearing on Senate Bill 287, it stands to reason that people did not know about that hearing. I am asking you, in your consideration for all the people in Utah, will you please have Bill 287 published front page news, day after day, to make them acquainted with that bill. If you can have that Bill voted on, the people will have to know what they are voting on, and for. 6 6 People come to me for good rates... they stay for my Good Neighbor service. 99 stack of old Readers Digests at a yard sale. In the issue of October, 1991, there is a story, Readers Digest Special Report. That report is headed Freed to Rape again, and says, How many more innocent victims must be violated or murdered before we get tough with sex criminals? I am sending a copy of this story to you. I do hope you pay attention to it. This story is about an investigation Readers Digest on juveconducted nation-wid- e nile sex offenders, but it does cover adults too. This investigation proves without a doubt that the treatment programs your state is planning on using as a substitute for imprisonment are totally useless. Will you please read this report and believe it? You will note that Utah is mentioned in the report. In the one newspaper article it says that many legislators voted to repeal minimum, mandatory sentencing to protect child victims. In the report it says, Even tough sentences can be undermined by plea bargaining. The victims worst trauma occurs when the attacker isnt properly punished. The ultimate price of leniency of sex offenders is paid each year by the thousands whose lives are destroyed. Yes, the victims (and their families) of those sadistic sexual assaults have been sentenced for life. They will be living with the pain of sexual trauma, and the loss of their innocence for the rest of their lives that is, those who live. Those victims like dont get to plea-barga- their attackers in do. Listen, can you hear them? Crying and begging and pleading, while their little bodies are beingbrutalized, tom, and bloodied. Yes, you can hear them. But does their attacker bargain with them? No, he does not. Im sure that if our justice sys tem could just once experience the pain and horror of a little victim, the automatic sentence would be Death! If you could feel the pain just once, Governor Leavitt, Im sure it would give you a different view on Bill 287. And if you didnt want a death sentence, you would want at least a punishment to fit the crime. Im sure if the attacker could just once feel the pain of his little victim, it would cure him a lot faster of even wanting to inflict that pain again, than being counseled by politically-connecte- d Mormon volunteers. A newspaper article of March 20, 1995 is headlined, Mormon volunteers shape state sex crime policy. (Article enclosed.) If those volunteers could just once feel the pain of a little victim, Im sure their counseling would be to that little victim. They would try to shape the state sex crime policy to inflict the punishment deserved to the one who committed the act, the one who has caused the pain. Governor Leavitt, what is happening to our whole criminal justice system? An example: in Missouri five teen-ag- e boys get in a fight. One killed. The other four was boy were sentenced to life in prison with no parole. But, in California a teenager was arrested for robbery and sexual assault. On plea bargain he was sentenced to two years probation. In Ohio he was arrested again for robbery and sexual assault. In pleabargaining, his three to fifteen year sentence was suspended. Back in California in May, 1988 he mutilated, sexually assaulted and murdered another teen-ag- e boy. Plea bargain He will be paroled from prison in 1998 10 years? The mother of the slain boy said, More than one person murdered my son. The whole criminal justice system. I agree with that, and I do Warren Sharkey Realtor and large. My plea to you again is, please put Senate Bill 287 up for a vote. Give the people of your state a chance to fight for the victims of all sexual crimes, and fight against a very lax punishment for these crimes. Again, please publish Bill 287 and let your people know what the bill is for, and what they will be voting for or against. Give your people a chance to set a good example to other states in the punishment of sexual crimes. It needs to be done, and will hopefully bring it to the at Washington is usually wrong Dear Editor: Washington is usually wrong! 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