Keeping Children Safe From Offenders
Earlier this week, Laurie Myers, President of Community VOICES, wrote the following piece for the Lowell Sun on keeping children safe. Her column referenced Senator Baddour's work on the Massachusetts version of Jessica'a Law, which called for mandatory minimum senteces for the worst crimes against children. (Senator Baddour is pictured above with Mark Lunsford, father of Jessica Lunsford, whom Jessica's Law was named after.)
Keeping children safe from offenders
By Laurie Myers
We hear the horror stories about children like Jessica Lunsford, abducted from her bedroom, raped and murdered by a repeat sex offender in Florida. We see the photos of kids like 12-year-old Alyssa Presti murdered in her bedroom by level 3 sex offender Michael Bizanowicz after he brutally raped her mother in the living room of their Woburn home. And Massachusetts will never, and should never forget Jeffrey Curley, who was lured by "friends" with the promise of a new bike, only to be brutally raped and murdered.
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