As we all know, 13 year-old Alycia Nipp was brutally murdered in Hazel Dell this past weekend. She did not have to die!

Letting serious sex offenders out of prison wearing GPS tracking devices is woefully inadequate, more must be done.

Washington residents, contact your Elected Officials, all of them and demand tougher laws dealing with these cretins. If you don’t know who your Representatives are, you can find them here.

Oregon residents, you can find your Representatives here.

It’s time to put politics aside and join forces to protect our children. Attitudes as expressed by a Washington County Dept of Corrections person is unacceptable. She said, “We can’t hold their hand seven days a week, 24 hours a day. And these things, as tragic as they are, do happen.”

Murder does not just happen!