Terry Frank Adcock wanted to rape a child.
He tried.
Adcock went down in flames in 2008 and was sprung 9 years later.
I can inform you that Adcock, 64, suffers from Parkinson’s Disease, has lousy teeth, stands 6’9″ and weighs 155 lbs. I know what Adcock looks like.
In addition, I can report that the wannabe child rapist currently resides at the Duval County Jail at 500 E. Adams St. in Jacksonville, Florida.
Adcock’s is the second name on the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s sex offender registry.
If only the poor pedophile lived in Canada. We would only know his name from old stories and that’s if we were looking for him. His address would be a question mark.
Adcock could be living next door to me or you or the school or daycare across the street. We do not take these matters seriously. Instead, violent sex offenders are protected like the rare South Asian sun bear.
Their rights and their privacy are paramount, always trumping public safety.
Now, the Ontario government is tightening the screws with a plan to bar registered sex offenders from changing their names.
Solicitor General Michael Kerzner said on Friday that those who are on the provincial sex offender registry will no longer be allowed to change their name once new legislation is passed.
In addition, Kerzner said the Progressive Conservative government’s planned changes to Christopher’s Law would require registered sex offenders to disclose their email and social media accounts and report any changes to their usernames.
And there would be no more have-perversions-will-travel. Sex offenders would now be required to report new passports or driver’s licences.
Currently, in Canada, we have the National Sex Offender Registry (NSOR) a registration system for sex offenders convicted of designated sex offences and ordered by the courts to report annually to cops.
In theory, it assists investigators in preventing — and investigating — crimes of a sexual nature. Cops have all the names, the offences and where these creeps live.
But it’s not public.
Blocking sex offender name changes isn’t relegated to typical law and order types. Wab Kinew’s NDP government in Manitoba proposed a similar bill.
Of course, advocates for sex offenders were mortified claiming that, by God, barring name changes could trigger more sex crimes.
“This would mean then that we want to label and stigmatize people, and we want to keep them in that place for the rest of their lives. We want people to identify them by the name that they had whenever a particular thing was done so that they’re identified as a sex offender,” Chris Cowie, executive director of Community Justice Initiatives, told CBC News.
Why, yes, that’s exactly what we want to do. More than 69 offenders have changed their names since April 2021.
Feel better?
For decades, the Canadian justice system has bent itself into a pretzel to give violent sex offenders a break.
These sorts of irresponsible gambits are hauntingly familiar to Jim Stephenson.
His 11-year-old son, Christopher Stephenson, was brutally murdered by convicted sex offender Joseph Fredericks on Father’s Day in 1998. The upside was Canada’s first sex offender registry, Christopher’s Law.
Barring name changes is a much-needed enhancement.
Cops describe Terry Frank Adcock as a violent sex offender. His rights and privacy do not appear to weigh heavily on the justice system.
Instead, they’re much more concerned about kids like Christopher Stephenson. As we should be.
@HunterTOSun