by Donna Hicks

Created on: September 30, 2010   Last Updated: January 22, 2012

All sex offenders, no matter whether the offender is classified as a tier 1, tier 2 or tier 3 sex offender, should have to register with their respective state's sex offender registry for the duration of that sex offenders' life. Sex offenders who fail to properly register immediately upon release from incarceration, as is required as a result of a sex offenders' parole terms, or who fail to update information such as address, telephone number or place of employment should be sanctioned with a violation of his or her parole or probation and incarcerated again until the sex offender agrees to comply and that compliance is verified by authorities with the terms and conditions of the sex offenders' parole.

Unfortunately, all states do not have as strict guidelines and sanctions as other states. Then again, some sex offenders just do not care and re-offend, and innocent people become victim of a sexually-oriented crime up to and including murder.

Sex Offenders Who Commit New Crimes

Although some sex offenders never re-offend, there are those who do. When John Albert Gardner III stood before the court to be arraigned for the rape and murder of Chelsea King, it was not the first time he was charged with sex offenses.

In 2000, he entered a plea of “guilty” for molesting a 13 year old girl, whom he had also beaten. She was able to escape and run for help. According to a CBS-13 report, the prosecutor noted Gardner expressed no remorse for the attack. He urged the maximum sentence. A psychiatrist even urged the maximum sentence allowed, stating Gardner took no responsibility for his actions and would continue to be a danger in the community. The maximum sentence was 11 years. In spite of reports by the psychiatrist and prosecutor, Gardner was sentenced to only six years and got off parole in 2008. Had he been sentenced to the maximum in 2000, would Chelsea King still be alive?

In January 2004, Nicholas Wiley was released from a New York Prison, and labeled a tier 3 sex offender, which is the highest level for sex offenders, for the sexual assault on a teenage girl, according to a CNN Law Center report. Just six months after his release, the body of a woman who had been brutally murdered was found in his apartment and the body of another woman was found in the trash bin of the apartment complex where Wiley resided. After the discovery of the two women, both of whom had been stabbed multiple times and had their throats slashed, Wiley confessed

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