adecou

http://gretawire.foxnews.com/2008/01...ianna-denison/

Ok, I'm from Reno, so this hits close to home. I went to UNR and have a good friend and DJ who briefly dated Briana. There are reportedly 10 or more registered sex offenders living within a mile of UNR (which is an older part of the town, cheap rent and big houses...perfect for a bunch of college girls to become prey.)

My question is...why should colleges be different than any other school? Isn't it a law that they can't live within so many miles of a school? What makes an 18 year old college student any different than an 18 year old high school student other than the fact that their even MORE vulnerable (can't spell...a little upset) to this type of thing by living alone without adults.

My heart breaks for this family.

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There is one within a 1/4 mile of my house, and another within 2.
When the closest one got out of prison,I was notified by MOBCO SD that he would be living in the neighborhood. My kids were young so I took it upon myself to warn him that if anything happened to them of such nature.
The law couldn't help him.

There is only one cure for men like that...a bullet in the head.
Put it in his hand and call it suicide.

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Well adecou, 18 is the age of majority in most, if not all, states, so CONSENSUAL sex between an 18 year-old woman and an over 18 year-old man is legal. The distinction between college and high school is the AGE of the students and apparently THAT doesn't even matter as long as the over 18 year-old is FEMALE because as several recent cases demonstrate the FEMALE will be given a slap on the wrist.

I'm with Spert on the "treatment" for pedophiles but if the "victim" is 18 years old, hell she could have been a White House intern and we would be told that a FIFTY year-old man having sex with her in the oval office was none of our business!!!!

BTW I don't know Ms Denison's story (it's not big news elsewhere in the country) but I don't mean to make light of her MURDER. I was responding to your question about treating colleges different from high schools.

adecou

That's not my question though.

My question is if they can't live within so many miles of a high school, why is it ok for them to live within a quarter mile of a college that has a ratio of 5:1 freshmen living in those dorms? Freshmen are usually 18 years old.

The law should be changed. Period. SCHOOLS period including colleges should be safe from these disgusting men.

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High schools have more than just 18 year old girls. There are also 14 year old girls.

wilthrill

Exactly

If I am not mistaken it is LEGAL in all 50 states for an 18 year-old to have CONSENSUAL sex (apparently this is a kidnap/sexual ASSAULT case and I don't mean to imply ANYTHING with respect to the victim but you asked why sexual predators can't live near high schools but can live near colleges) so an 18 year-old COULD legally have sex with someone who in the past has been convicted of sex crimes. In other words if you say they can't live near colleges then you could also say they can't live near churches, shopping malls or anywhere else where they could come into contact with WOMEN period. In other words they can't live anywhere near civilization.

Wilthrill has a better method. First, let's separate out all of the 18 year-olds having sex with their 17 year old girlfriends from the true sexual predators. Currently, in California for example, if an 18 year-old MALE has sex with his 17 year-old girlfriend it is a crime called statutory rape. Ironically if a thirty year-old woman has sex with a 13 year-old boy, in California that is NOT statutory rape. ONLY a MALE can commit statutory rape in California.

I am more concerned with RAPISTS and PEDOPHILES than 18 year-old guys having sex with their 17 year-old girlfriends.
PEDOPHILES are, by definition, a good bit OLDER than their victims.

Now I would throw some of the potheads out of prison as well as deport the roughly 30% of federal prisoners (illegal aliens) to MAKE ROOM for the pedophiles and rapists. If it were an extreme case (for example a 30 year-old having sex with 6 year-old) I'd give them the DEATH PENALTY!!! Otherwise they get very long prison sentences WITHOUT the possibility of early release. If they did eventually get out part of their sentence would be that they would be ID'ed as sexual predators and anyone who wanted to know could find out where they lived.

As far as keeping women safe from these "disgusting men" I'd suggest that a 357 Magnum would do a far better job of that than relying on the sexual predator to obey the rules and not live near a college.

adecou

I agree with you, and I hope you didn't think I meant any disrespect to you as well. I just know people who know his girl personally and it breaks my heart.

I do see where you're coming from. But I still wish there were better laws against such things. I don't know.

I agree that having pot-related crimes being held in federal prisons is beyond ridiculous and deporting the illegals (Lord do I see enough of that bs in my state)...

I just feel so sad for this girl. She knew no better. Yes, she could've had consensual sex with this man...but this was't consensual.

I don't know, I'm emotional about the whole thing...it's just hard knowing that the state let this man out and is able to pray on the 'creme of the crop' college girls...

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THIS is why I'm scared I guess...

RENO, Nev. (AP) — As authorities launched a manhunt, University of Nevada, Reno students expressed fear over a serial rapist sought in the murder of a 19-year-old college student and the attacks of at least two other women.

Female students said Sunday they’re taking precautions such as carrying pepper and bear spray, a day after Reno police announced Brianna Denison was strangled to death by the same man who earlier attacked two other women.

Denison’s Jan. 20 abduction and the other attacks late last year occurred in the same area on the edge of the campus. Denison’s body was found Friday in a field near a business park about 8 miles from the house where she was last seen.

Freshman Darrylln Thomas, who lives in a dormitory two blocks away from the house, said the string of attacks has put students on edge and received considerable mention in their MySpace.com pages.

Among other advice, MySpace users have urged other students to scratch the suspect for his DNA if attacked and to be aware that the attacks have occurred around the middle of the month.

“A lot of students think he’s going to do it again,” Thomas said Sunday at the student union building. “Everybody is pretty scared. Students are carrying tasers, pepper spray and bear spray. I’m very paranoid.”

Reno police pledged an all-out effort to capture the suspect and appealed to the public for help. They said the rapist’s familiarity with the city suggests he likely lives in Reno.

“I would say this is a serial rapist,” Reno Deputy Police Chief Jim Johns said at a news conference Saturday. “I’m worried this guy is still out there, and I’m worried somebody else is going to get hurt.”

While police are confident the rapist ultimately will be found, “our absolute fear is he may re-offend,” Johns added.

Denison family members said they would not relent until the suspect is brought to justice.

“We are not giving up until we find that bastard,” her aunt, Lauren Denison, told the Reno Gazette-Journal. “This shouldn’t have happened ... I know all of us, and the community, want to get our hands on him, but that’s not realistic.”

A makeshift memorial featuring flowers, teddy bears and a photo of Denison drew periodic visitors Sunday to the brush-covered field where her body was found in the city’s south side.

Blue ribbons hung in Denison’s memory around the neighborhood where she was abducted, as well as outside the governor’s mansion in Carson City. Her family has urged the community to place blue ribbons — her favorite color — around their homes until her burial. Funeral arrangements were pending.

“We will be honoring that request at the mansion and encourage all Nevadans to do the same,” said Gov. Jim Gibbons, whose 20-year-old son, Jimmy, was a classmate of Denison at Reno High School.

Denison was a student at Santa Barbara City College in California. She was visiting her hometown over winter break and was last seen sleeping on a couch at a friend’s rental house just off the Reno campus.

DNA evidence links Denison’s kidnapping to two other attacks on women near the university late last year, police said. An earlier campus attack also could be related. In that incident, the attacker brazenly raped a woman at gunpoint in a garage where campus police park their cruisers.

University President Milton Glick issued a statement urging students to take precautions. The attacks have prompted expanded campus patrols and escorts, seminars on personal safety and the distribution of whistles to female students.

“University police advise that you remain aware of your surroundings and avoid situations that put you at risk, such as walking alone at night or leaving doors and windows unlocked,” Glick said.

Senior Alix Frank, who lives 2½ blocks away from the house where Denison vanished, said she’s taking the advice to heart and is carrying pepper spray.
“I’m getting nervous because of the progression of the crimes,” she said. “It hasn’t destroyed my life with paranoia, but I’m definitely taking more precautions. I just hope they can make an arrest as soon as possible.”

Sophomore Jasmine Jia said the string of attacks has prompted her to end her nature walks and bicycle rides away from campus and left her feeling anger and frustration.

“It gives me a fleeting moment of suspicion when I see a stranger now,” she said. “My freedom of mobility and independence have been taken away by one individual. But it’s merely an inconvenience and is nothing compared to what Brianna Denison had to go through.”

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wilthrill

Do you guys have concealed carry laws in Nevada?

In Tennessee you have to pay like $150 and go to a firearm safety class first but you can get a license to carry a concealed firearm.

I can understand your emotion as I have a twenty-one year old daughter who lives in California and I know how I would feel...

Not to sound callous, but I'd love to see a story out of Reno headlined, "Young Woman Fatally Shoots Serial Rapist."

adecou

Oh, I'd love that as well.

I'm not sure of the laws in Nevada.

Mark is looking into the laws here in Arizona (we moved from there just over a year ago) because there was a horrible serial rapist in Pheonix just before we moved here.

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