Too Little, Too Late
Child Molester Escapes Because Monitoring Bracelet Doesn’t Have GPS Tracking
It took a Great Escape to prove to folks in Australia that a criminal’s natural urge to flee justice is maybe a bit stronger than his right to privacy.
A convicted child molester has escaped an extended supervised stay facility near Melbourne. Red-faced police authorities admit that, while the criminal was fitted with an electronic monitoring bracelet as a stipulation of his probation, they do not know where he has gone. That’s because the bracelet was equipped with a simple electronic warning system and not the latest GPS tracking technology.
The escapee is a child rapist and his name is not being released by judge’s orders. After completing a long jail term, the man was remanded to a minimum security compound just outside the prison. He shared the facility with about two dozen other sex offenders.
The man had to wear an electronic ankle bracelet to make sure he remained on prison property. However, staunch civil rights defenders in Australia successfully fought against a GPS tracking bracelet, saying that monitoring the con’s exact position every few seconds would strip him of dignity and privacy.
Caving in to demand, the courts ordered the offender to wear an older tracking system, that alerts authorities if the bracelet is moved beyond a certain radius from the home-based receiver. The bracelet did its job and it notified guards when the pedophile left his home confines about 2 a.m. one Wednesday.
But without GPS tracking, the criminal’s whereabouts have been a mystery once he was out of sight. Many prisoner home monitoring systems today have GPS tracking capabilities. Location coordinates are recorded and sent to a protected Web site/server. The procedure is much like vehicle tracking. The escapee’s path can be followed nearly step by step on a digital map and, of course, capture is imminent.
A high-ranking corrections officer in the prison system said he was frustrated that law enforcement was not keeping pace with technology. Criminals are adjusting their bad habits for the 21st century and so should police, he said.
Source: Big Pond News
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