 |
         
|
CBS sent Randall Pinkston to Cleveland to cover the rape and murder charges leveled against Anthony Sowell, in whose house and garden eleven corpses had been unearthed. "Outraged local residents accuse authorities of ignoring their concerns about missing women for years," Pinkston reported, adding the macabre detail that "the stench of death" coming from the house had been ignored: "The smell was erroneously believed to be coming from a sausage factory next door." NBC's Mike Taibbi told us that the Cuyahoga County coroner wants families with missing female kin to submit DNA samples to help identify the dead women.
Sowell had a criminal record as an attempted rapist and was registered on the county's list of sex offenders. ABC had Pierre Thomas take A Closer Look. Cuyahoga County has 3,400 sex offenders on its registry and a staff of eight officers to track them. Sowell was required to check in with authorities every 90 days. "And he did." From California, CBS' Bill Whitaker covered the investigation into the supervision of Phillip Garrido, the registered sex offender charged with keeping an eleven-year-old kidnapped girl prisoner for 18 years--"all while being closely monitored by parole agents; he even wore a GPS ankle bracelet."
CBS' Whitaker concluded that the biggest criticism of the sex offender registry system is a "failure to prioritize." Teenagers caught texting naked pictures of themselves to their friends receive as much scrutiny as ex-con child rapists.
You must be logged in to this website to leave a comment. Please click here to log in so you can participate in the discussion.
