Our Best Defense In May of 1997, President Bill Clinton signed the Jacob Wetteriing Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act. This law arose from New Jersey’s Megan’s Law that came about after seven-year-old Megan Kanka was raped and murdered by a twice-convicted sex offender who was living in her neighborhood. This federal law mandates that released sex offenders must register as such with local law enforcement. The state will be responsible …showed first 75 words of 1064 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1064 total…and buried in a shallow grave. If Megan’s parents would have known the history of this man, they could have told her to stay away from him. They could have spared their daughter from this heinous crime. Megan was only one of thousands of crimes that are committed every year. These laws could have saved Megan and countless others. Sex offender registration and notification laws protect the innocent and preserve their right to life.