Marcus Berry, 56, was arrested Wednesday evening August 12, 2009. He is being charged with kidnapping and lewd molestation of a minor child. Again. Read more and see his mugshot below.
Marcus Berry Sr
Marcus Berry is a twice convicted child molester, with convictions in 1986 and 1993. He entered the prison system in November of 1993 after being sentenced to 30 years for the molestation of a child. Due to the earned credit system, where convicts receive time off their sentence for good behavior, he was released after a month shy of 13 years. Berry became a free man on Oct. 3, 2006 and was placed on the sex offender registry.
Marcus Berry was arrested again this past Wednesday night when two alert police officers out patrolling a remote area happened to notice his pick-up truck. They were unaware at the time that a child was missing, it simply seemed odd to them to see the truck where it was. After approaching the truck, they discovered Berry with his pants down and the two year old partially clothed.
In their police report it states that Berry shouted “Kill me. Just f—— kill me now!”
Quite frankly I wonder how they refrained from doing so. One officer handcuffed Berry, the other scooped the child up in her arms.
Moments later, they heard the call about a kidnapped child matching the description of the toddler they just rescued. She had been taken from her gated front yard.
Representative Rex Duncan of Oklahoma now plans to do something about this catch and release syndrome we seem to have with pedophiles.
Representative Rex Duncan plans to introduce legislation that would allow the death penalty for sentencing if someone is convicted of a sex crime involving children more than once. The announcement comes on the heels of the arrest of Marcus Berry, Senior, a two-time sex offender who avoided jail time despite being accused of failing to register.
Records also show that Berry has been charged with violating the sex-offender registration law twice since he was released from prison in 2006. A jury acquitted him of the first charge based on his defense of being homeless and therefore unable to register an address. He was convicted of the second charge and sentenced in July 2008 to two years of probation.
In my opinion this is one of the better and more realistic idea’s for dealing with pedophiles. It has been proven time and again that no matter how hard anyone tries, pedophiles cannot be cured, or fixed….ask them and they will admit they do not want to be.
Marcus Berry has been charged with kidnapping and lewd molestation of a minor child again and is being held on a million dollar bail. While he faces life if convicted, do you honestly think he will serve that sentence?
Our society cannot keep catching and releasing these people. They have organized and are demanding civil rights, comparing themselves to the gay movement. They think they are *born this way*. I believe that is but one of a litany of excuses. Their constant mantra is ‘we love children”. Were that true, there would be no raping and sexual exploitation of our children. There would be no child/kiddie porn, or a market for it. They would be giving their lives to save a child from harm, as would most of us.
We need a solution. Our children need rights more than these criminals, and I think we should get behind any legislation that has protecting children as it’s goal. We need to overhaul our sex offender registries, eliminate those that truly do not belong on it, and concentrate on closing the loopholes on those that do.
What are your thoughts? And no, one gun, one bullet = no problem is not a viable solution.
August 16th, 2009 at 9:53 am
JoAnne, a very recent issue of the Economist magazine has a front page, big article, on this very issue. They too recommend amending the registries to recognize those that pose real danger and you guessed it, eliminate those with with lesser offenses some of which just don’t fit in the category. I think you get put on the registry for going to the bathroom “in public” (behind a dumpster in a city with no restrooms?)in 5 states. And God help teenagers. They had some interesting data on the hard core offenders(a smaller number than I thought) and it certainly appears there is no working cure. They even had those residence dot maps on google so that anybody could just target someone on the registry. Shockingly there were too many dots for anyplace to look safe, so I wondered, why so many people on it. I think if we get past the hysteria that anything to do with going to the bathroom in public, streaking, or high school kids “dating” ending up on the “exponentially growing” registries. The police say they cannot handle the growing load and want some clarification. So your solution would improve the efficacy of what we need to do. I think this subject has gotten contaminated by the general hysteria that seems to just endlessly enlarge the size of our criminal percentage of our population. Smart targeting and honing down to the real issue seems long overdue and in order.
August 16th, 2009 at 10:04 am
@ Brian: The registry ended up like the witch hunts. So many do not belong on it, but once there, the person is stuck with the stigma for life, guilty or not. People don’t see the “urinating behind a tree part*, or that it’s 2 teens…they simply see the name on the registry and assume the worse.
The hysteria surrounding this went into overdrive/overkill. Meanwhile, offenders like Berry roam free to repeat.
August 16th, 2009 at 10:15 am
Its nice to see someone else has figured out the problem too. Its a complicated subject, but the need for many people to have convienent demons to project all their shadows on is so strong in a puritanical culture. I guess as our population incrases our need for more demons increases. I can’t say its healthy. But does it really deal with the core issue at all? Or is it just more money down a rabbit hole? Unfortunately it is politically popular to push this as far as the public will pay for it. So politicians get a boost by adding harsher and harsher laws, but has anything really changed?
August 16th, 2009 at 10:28 am
We had/have a very aggressive female prosecutor here but it’s coming out now that half the people she FORCED to plead no contest, were never guilty. Her convictions are being overturned…men and women both…this witch ruined a lot of lives and families because she saw sex offenders every time she opened her eyes. I often wondered if someone so obsessed didn’t harbor some fantasies of their own.
We need change..we need an overhaul, and we need to PROTECT OUR CHILDREN. I don’t give a damn who pee’s in a park
August 16th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
amazing
December 21st, 2009 at 8:29 am
I believe people like this have a special place in HELL reserved just for them!! And deserve to spend eternity there. Any person who would do any type of lewd or malicious act on a child is a sick friek with deep problems and deserve to spend life in prison and eternity in hell!!! People (sex offenders) who say they were born that way are deeply confused. No one is born a pervert! Children are the most precious gift from God and have a right to be cherished and protected. They are helpless beings with no voice. They have a right to be protected.
- NO MERCY FOR SEX OFFENDERS!!
December 21st, 2009 at 10:03 am
I stumbled on to this website and began reading. Speaking from the victim’ side, I have a different point of view.
I was raped when I was 9 years old by my uncle who was 16. Because it was “family” nothing was done and I was told that it was my fault. We didn’t talk about it–I wasn’t offered any help, I just had to deal with it. I found out later that he had done the same to my cousin. Today I am 53 years old and it still haunts me. The only person that knows about it is my husband. Some days I think about it and it still makes me furious–some days, I just I just think about it in passing.
I was an over-protective Mother who made my daughters life a living hell by keeping her from people I didn’t know. I would not let her spend the night at friends houses–they came to ours, I would not let her spend the night at aunts and uncles houses–basically I did not trust anybody. She just thought I was mean. I was bound and determined not to let that happen to my daughter and it didn’t. She is 30 years old now and she still can’t understand why I was the way I was. I guess I should tell her…
He has lived his entire life and I very seriously doubt if he has ever thought about it again. We live in different states and I have probably have only seen him 2 times since. I was with my parents when I did or I would have tried to kill him.
I know that I have some unresolved issues that I probably need to deal with but until you have walked in my shoes (or the victim’s shoes), you can’t imagine how your life is changed–not for just a while, but your whole lifetime.
I don’t know the answer, but I DO know this. I believe in my heart that child rapists are the lowest form of humanity. I put them on the list as being just barely human. Until we go back to the old justice, this problem will persist in our world. Children and babies will be raped, molested, killed and the monsters that do these horrible things will go on with their life as if nothing ever happened.
Maybe the solution is not 1 gun + 1 bullet = problem solved.
In my opinion, consider this: Most every town has a town square or some public spot. After the monster is found guilty or caught in the act, take him straight to the public gallows, hang his guilty a.. and send his soul straight to hell. This might make someone who is contemplating rape or murder of a child stop and think twice. The only way to STOP this, is to make them afraid to commit this in the first place. Do you think that sending them to prison where they have food, a bed, a law library, a gym and companionship is a deterrent?????
Think I am being too hard? Live a victim’s life for awhile and you will go to the hardware store to purchase the lumber and rope.
December 21st, 2009 at 10:15 am
Daisy: I am 100% with you on this.
Do tell your daughter…she will understand the over protectiveness then.
People these days don’t feel shame…and your idea is far better than mine…if only we hadn’t become a nation of cowards. These people that care more about criminal rights than victims make me ill.
December 21st, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Dove: You’re quite correct. We need more people to think this way!