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Show Editorial Page ! i further responsibilities and authority, autho-rity, and secondly, be held ac-' countable as an accessory to any crimes Bernt Murphy might have committed. These officials are a disgrace to humanity because of their negligence neg-ligence and unconcern for their fellow man! Write us and let us know what you think. Two years ago, 23-year-old Joce-. lyn Hickenlooper was killed. A' few days ago, a little four and one-half-year-old girl was ravished, ravish-ed, strangled and left for dead. An illiterate, mentally - unbalanced unbalanc-ed 19-year-old youth named Bernt; Murphy has confessed to both' crimes. A former inmate of the American Ameri-can Fork Training School (for the mentally defective) for five years. Bernt Murphy's history is one of disobedience, dishonesty, brutality and previous sex offenses. While confined in school, records rec-ords show this hulking 190-pound youth injured other inmates and attendants. The day before he was released, he knocked down an attendant! He confessed using his powerful power-ful hands to strangle both the female fe-male victims. One is dead and the other was left for dead! Officials at the training school admit they have neither the equipment equip-ment nor staff for maximum security se-curity and control over inmates as unmanageable and violent as this confessed sex offender and strangler - killer so they discharged dis-charged him and turned him loose on society to run rampant and ravage innocent women and helpless help-less babies! Educated and supposedly responsible re-sponsible grown men released a vicious person like Bernt Murphy upon our unsuspecting community! communi-ty! Bernt Murphy has not been convicted con-victed of these last two crimes, even though he has confessed to them, and he is, according to law, innocent until proven guilty. In addition, his mental condition may cause him to fabricate considerably. consider-ably. But it IS a fact that he is a past sex offender; that he DOES have criminal tendencies and that he is a cruel, mean, mentally deficient de-ficient and a convicted sex offend; er! Because he is mentally deficient, defi-cient, he can't be expected to conduct con-duct himself normally. We are not excusing Bernt of his crimes we think he should be dealt with so society need never fear him again. But, we think that those school officials who were responsible respons-ible for his release should be dealt with also! Whatever their reason for releasing re-leasing this menace to humanity, they should be held accountable, for they couldn't have helped but realize that he would continue his past criminal pattern when released. re-leased. We feel that these people who have no more thought or concern for our women and children than to release upon them a brutal sex offender like Bernt Murphy should first of all, be removed from any |