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Jewish World Review
June 2, 2005
/ 24 Iyar, 5765
Sex offender laws: Couey accomplices should pay too
By
Dan Abrams
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The more we learn about the case of little Jessica Lunsford, the more disgusting and frustrating it becomes. Up to this point, we knew 9-year-old Jessica had been kidnapped, raped, and eventually buried alive with her stuffed dolphin in her arms. Her alleged killer, John Couey, confessed and we knew that two of his relatives were questioned about Jessica while Couey was in the home.
An additional 1,400 pages of information were released yesterday in Florida, generating new questions about whether Couey's sister, her boyfriend, and his niece (with whom he was living), should also be held accountable for Jessica's death. According to the new documents, after killing Jessica, Couey told his niece that he'd kept Jessica alive and hidden in his bedroom in his sister's home for at least three days before he finally buried her alive.
She said nothing about it. Couey's sister and her boyfriend were also living in the house and apparently doing drugs with Couey at the time. They all knew Jessica was missing. The Lunsford house was less than 100 yards away and the neighborhood was swarming with police. The police questioned Couey's housemates twice during the search for Jessica.
It now seems clear Jessica was alive and hidden in the house while the police were there looking for her.
How could three people be living in a mobile home together for three days without knowing a little girl was being kept prisoner there? Couey's housemates claim they never heard anything and that Couey kept his bedroom door closed. But the new documents reveal that Couey told police his sister's boyfriend actually came into his room while Jessica was hidden in his closet. The boyfriend even sat on his bed, Couey said, the same bed where police later found Jessica's blood. Couey told police his sister's boyfriend was so high that it's possible he didn't notice anything.
Well, I don't buy it. Police initially arrested Couey's housemates, charged them with resisting or obstructing an officer. Both Couey's sister and her boyfriend failed to tell police that Couey, a sex offender, who they knew had violated parole, was staying there. Prosecutors quickly decided they could not pursue any charges.
"Florida does not have a statute which makes it a crime to lie to a police officer in all situations nor is there a law which requires a person to disclose the whereabouts of a registered sex offender."
Fair enough. That was the law, which has since been changed. But that was the law. Unfortunately, without any evidence that they knew she was there, they couldn't prosecute in Florida. Those who demanded prosecution just based on that fact, the fact that they lied about having a sex offender in the house, was right in spirit, wrong on the law.
But this new information, I believe, changes everything: There is now a legitimate case to be made for obstruction of justice or even accessory to a crime. If those three were living in a mobile home with Couey and Jessica for three days, there is an argument they must have known that she was there. That's a crime, a serious and despicable one. It's time to put these lowlifes away.
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