Billy Lee Morford is a name that conjures misgivings in my mind. He is, if the name rings no bells for you, a four-times convicted child molester who has a release hearing scheduled during the week before Christmas. It is entirely possible that he will be released and be free to live where ever he chooses.
This caused me to finally look at the Wisconsin Sex Offender website to learn about the Village of Germantown and whether or not we have any registered offenders within the community.
You can
click here to see this site for yourself. There are nine registered sex offenders using twenty names who reside in Germantown. We should know who and where for our protection and the protection of our loved ones. This site provides that information.
There are those who believe that a sex offender can never be rehabilitated and there those who believe just the opposite. I have no education or training to know which position is the more accurate. I do know however that this is nothing that should be left to chance.
In Mr. Morford’s case, there is a trail littered with people whom he has left with psychological scars that will never heal. Are the judges who make those decisions too insulated from the realities of those decisions? How often does a registered sex offender move into a home next door to or down the street from a judge? In the case of Mr. Morford, we see a repeat offender who now may be released simply because he is thought to be so ill as to live less than a year, and who is thought to be so ill as to be unable to offend again.
How can anyone be so certain?
