Deal with sex offenders harshly

Regarding two articles in the April 24 Augusta Chronicle:

The first pertains to the banishing of sex offender Ralph William Tulk from five counties in Georgia's Northern Judicial Circuit, including Elbert County, as a condition of his four-year probation for sexual battery on children. This is Judge Lindsey A. Tise's solution to protecting the people of Elbert County: chase the mad dogs over into your neighbor's yard.

The second pertains to the Jessica Lunsford Act passed by the Florida legislature that sets a mandatory sentence of 25 years to life for sex offenses on children younger than 12. Also, if these offenders serve less than life, they will be required to wear a global-positioning device so authorities can keep track of them. Can you imagine supposedly intelligent men and women putting this in writing? Would either condition have protected Jessica? I think not.

I have a better solution: Tattoo "sex offender" or "pedophile" in bold letters across their foreheads, if and when they are released, and leave it up to the parents to protect their children from these predators. Parents cannot see a positioning device.

If this seems harsh, consider what is happening to our innocent, vulnerable children who look to us for protection, A society that will not protect its children does not deserve to call itself civilized.

A.G. Blackmon, Warrenville, S.C.