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The Orange Park little girl, Somer, was picked up on the street by someone, murdered and dumped. I have driven through that area a few times going from Wells Road to Kingsly. It is a multi-racial area with many nice homes. A map of the registered sex offenders in that area, five mile area from the point of loss, shows ninety sex offenders. That is a very large group of people. Furthermore, the police actually questioned one hundred sixty sex offenders in their search. Now and then we hear that we are not a tolerant society. This certainly gives the lie to that statement. We tolerate these potential threats by letting them live among us. The American people are understanding and compassionate, knowing they must live someplace. This community has not called for their removal, or persecution but only that the murderer be found and prosecuted. The registering of sex offenders is a good law and it worked well here. The police were able to do a search quickly and eliminate people as suspects. I never thought much about that law but now I see how important it is. We hope the murderer is found soon.