In addition to posting the intentional "sex offenders are 4 times as likely to reoffend" myth as well as an impliit endorsement of vigilante violence, Phil Gianficaro claims 2 out of every 5 registered persons commit a sex offense within a year of release from prison. What a complete tool!
This has to be some kind of new record for outlandish claims about Registered Persons.
Gianficaro: Prison sentence for child sex predators must pack more punch
Phil Gianficaro
Burlington County Times
As the parent of a teenage daughter we love more than life itself, the child sexual predator’s prison sentence feels more like a jab to the chin than the iron-fisted haymaker it requires.
Four years? Only four years for attempting to lure 14-year-old girls to meet him for sex? Only four years for 25-year-old William Singleton of Pemberton Township who, but for the invaluable work of New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal’s multi-agency undercover operation, may have committed the unthinkable on someone’s young daughter and gotten away with it? Only four years for changing a young girl’s world forever? Maybe next time he would’ve remained undetected behind the cloak of social media and lured your neighbor’s daughter into his dark lair. Or maybe your daughter. Maybe mine. Only four years? For God’s sake!
Singleton was among 24 men arrested in September 2018 during “Operation Open House.” Detectives with the New Jersey Regional Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force posed online as underage girls. The defendants, believing the undercover detective was a 14-year-old girl, asked the "girl" to meet him at a Toms River house for sexual activity.
Singleton last week agreed to a guilty plea to avoid trial and was sentenced to four years in state prison. In New Jersey, second-degree child molestation or child sex abuse of a child 13 to16 years old is punishable by a prison sentence of 5 to 10 years. So, Singleton gets a light sentence only because he was caught by the law before getting the chance to carry out his heinous crime. Four years? He shouldn't get points for that.
Fathers of teenage daughters have a completely understandable and contrary view. In a father’s eyes, the attempt is seen as egregious as the act. A father's meting out of justice is this: Throw the book at the perp, and throw away the key.
Sex offenders are at least four times more likely than other criminals to be rearrested for a sex crime, according to the US Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics. Know this: Singleton will be released from prison before he’s 30 and, statistically, there’s a 40 percent chance he’ll commit or attempt to commit the same crime within one year of discharge from prison. Maybe next time, he slips through the cracks of law enforcement. And when it comes to a next time, there’s unlikely to be a maybe.
Opportunities for predators like Singleton have increased this year, with the COVID-19 pandemic closing down schools and leading to children spending increased time on the internet. According to Grewal, from March through July, there was a 50 percent increase in tips to the task force that nabbed Singleton compared to the same months last year.
When asked what he might due if one of the William Singletons of the world lured his young daughter into a hotel room or apartment and did the unthinkable, a friend didn't hesitate.
"If I ever found him, I'd introduce the sweet spot of my Louisville Slugger to the back of his head," he said. "Prison is too good for these dirt bags."
As I look at a photo of our daughter, I understand. Don't know a father who wouldn't.
When child sex predators like Singleton are arrested, the punch of justice should be haymaker instead of jab. You get caught luring underage kids for sex, you sit in prison for a minimum of 10 years. No plea agreement, no early parole, no nothing. Prison. For a decade.
Where young girls would be safely away from a predator.
And the predator safely away from their dads.
Phil Gianficaro can be reached at 215-345-3078, pgianficaro@theintell.com, and @philgianficaro on Twitter.
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