Revolting

By now, everyone in the state knows about Kathlynn Shephard, abducted and now missing near Dayton, Iowa. She and another young girl accepted a ride from a stranger and were taken to a "remote agricultural facility." The 12 year old escaped, their accuser was found dead of an apparent suicide, but Kathlynn's whereabouts are still unknown.
I think I can speak for all of us when I say, we pray she is found alive, however the longer the search lasts, the more grave things start to look.
The revolting (and that is a word that still doesn't really describe the feeling) part of this is that the kidnapper was a convicted felon. He was a registered sex offender. He kidnapped and assaulted a 21 (I think) year old woman and the next day kidnapped TWO three year olds. He should have rot in prison. Instead, he was released, for "good behavior."
I understand there is prison overcrowding, fine, I get it. But, here's a thought...lets send drug offenders to rehab and keep monsters like this where they belong for their ENTIRE sentence. There should be no "get out of jail" card for those who commit crimes against children.
People will argue that drugs destroy families, that may be the case, I don't know. What I do know is that this ghoul has destroyed the lives of five families, that we know of, and we had him in jail once, and let him go. Drug users, dealers, manufacturers/growers etc. make choices to do what they do. More often than not, they are grown adults and are conscious of what they are doing. The people who Michael Klunder abducted and abused had no choice in their situations.
I have no answers to this situation, only questions, like we all have, I would assume. Why did Klunder get released. Why, as a registered sex offender, was he living so close to a school? How did he fall through the cracks? Why did the girls accept a ride from him? And most importantly, I wonder where Kathlynn is?
I will hold my daughter a little tighter tonight. I will pray the Kathlynn is found alive and I will continue to shake my head at what this world is becoming....