March 9, 2004
ONE FIEND CAUGHT
They finally caught the satanic bastard who raped a 9-year-old girl in 1996 at a Palm Valley, Florida development site. DNA busted him. He was in prison in California for sex crimes, having been allowed to walk for like crimes in Ohio. The Ohio crimes happened after he committed his foul deeds here in Florida, but he had a history of sex crimes an arm's length long before he ever showed up here.
I moved to Jacksonville a couple of weeks after this crime. Rented an apartment in Ponte Vedra Beach while I looked for a home. We found a beautiful, perfect neighborhood, where they were just breaking soil, but when The Bride found out the crime that had happened there, she insisted we move to the other side of St. Johns County.
Too bad, because those houses, two minutes from the beach, have tripled in value. But I understand why she couldn't live there. Bad joss.
But he is caught. Finally. People in Palm Valley have had fences and security systems on high alert for 7 years on account of this bastard, and he's been jailed, off and on, far away, for a like amount of time.
But he's been released repeatedly, and he's raped children repeatedly for the last 7 years.
What the fuck is that all about?