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We hear these stories too often. As a parent, it stops my blood cold. I cannot imagine the torturing anguish and desperation of not knowing what happened to your child. To know the animal that is probably responsible for whatever happened to this beautiful young girl, is sitting in a cell and doesn’t even have the smallest shred of decency to tell these people where their daughter can be found, just infuriates me. Though it has been many days, I hope that they locate her soon. Preferably alive, but if that is not to be, then at least her parents will have the peace of knowing. May God be with them at this difficult time.

Last Thursday afternoon, while jogging alone in a nearby neighborhood park, 17-year-old Chelsea King went missing. Thousands of people have joined in the search online and in San Diego. Supposedly, an item of her clothing was found with the DNA of a known sexual predator, John Gardner III. Paroled in 2008, Gardner’s DNA was in the database because he had been convicted of performing lewd acts on a 13-year-old victim. Though the psychiatrist who evaluated him at sentencing recommended strongly that he serve the 11-year maximum as he showed no remorse for his crimes, he only received a six-year sentence. Why do we let these people out on the street? How many times do we have to hear that their crimes elevated to murder, once released?

I am not a violent person, and do not condone killing (with the exception of capital punishment). However, let it be known, that if anything even remotely close to this ever happened to my daughter—that person is going to die. Not die in a clean, sterile environment by lethal injection, either. By my hands, in cold blood, and with fury. It would be worth every day I spent in prison.