"We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity": Shocking - California released seven thousand pedophiles convicted of lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age to streets after less than a year in jail
Thousands of convicted pedophiles in California have been released back onto the streets after spending just months behind bars, a new report found.
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A Daily Mail investigation, which examined a database of convicted sex offenders in California, found that there were more than 7,000 pedophiles convicted of "lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age," who were released from prison after serving less than one year.
Daily Mail senior reporter Josh Boswell, who broke the story, told Tucker Carlson on Tuesday that he had to bypass limitations on California's Megan's Law website to gather statistics on registered sex offenders in the state as the California Justice Department refused to provide him with the data.
"I wrote a bit of code to pull down some of that public information….we asked them to give us the data, but they refused," he said on "Tucker Carlson Tonight," "so I had to write this script to put it together so I could show the public."
Megan’s Law is a federal law that requires law enforcement to make information on sex offenders available to the public. It was passed during the Clinton administration after the murder of New Jersey 7-year-old Megan Kanka in 1994.
Boswell said the results of his search were "quite shocking," pointing out specific examples of predators convicted of continuous sexual abuse of a child who spent just months in prison, and in some cases, just two days behind bars.
One of the sex offenders who was returned to the streets less than a week after he was convicted of continuous sexual abuse of a child now "lives one block from a daycare according to the database." Boswell said.
The investigation examined 54,986 sex offenders listed on the Megan’s Law website as of July 2019 and found 76% of the offenders committed crimes involving kids. The data was determined by comparing the published dates of a pedophile’s conviction versus their release date.
"There’s a sense that maybe there are a few people who haven’t really been convicted of anything super serious. Actually, there are 19,000 of the 55,000 that we saw who are convicted of this molesting under 14 [year olds.] These are serious offenses," Boswell said. "These are people that are spending a few months in prison for these really awful heinous crimes."
A number of California officials who were asked about the report's findings blamed policies endorsed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom which have allowed shortened sentences and early release for convicted criminals.
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Boswell said he contacted the California District Attorney as well as Newsom's office – both of whom deflected blame or ignored his inquiry on the issue.
"Gavin Newsom himself hasn’t spoken on this at all. What they were telling me is that this isn’t their problem. It’s the courts. It’s the local DA's. Really, this is a problem for the whole state of California," Boswell said.
"Prosecutors I spoke to said this could be partly a result of wanting to release prisoners early from prison because they’re wanting to let nonviolent offenders out and reduce the prison population. The problem is," Boswell continued, "among those ‘non-violent offenders’ are some of these pedophiles that have a high risk of re-offending, according to the studies done on those kinds of people."
In a statement to Fox News Digital, California Gov. Gavin Newsom's office said it's "critical for local district attorneys to use their power to prosecute offenders and hold them to account to the fullest extent of the law."
"There seems to be a lack of understanding of the role of the state versus the role of local prosecutors and judges. Like in many other states, in California, the authority to charge, prosecute, and sentence people who have committed sex offenses is left to district attorneys then judges at the local county level. It is critical for local district attorneys to use their power to prosecute offenders and hold them to account to the fullest extent of the law.
"The state of California has strengthened efforts to apprehend criminals by expanding funding for law enforcement to track and arrest online predators. Additionally, the state conducts sting operations with federal and local law enforcement officials and has launched regional Human Trafficking and Sexual Predator Apprehension Teams."
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