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    Megan's law was created in the United States after the rape and murder of 7-year-old Megan Kanka by a known sex offender in 1994. It requires law enforcement to notify the public about sex offenders. Megan was lured into her neighbor's house by his promise of a new puppy and killed. Her parents advocated to change the law to require communities be notified about sex offenders to help parents protect their children. The law also requires sex offenders to notify authorities of address changes to allow better monitoring. Megan's law helps prevent child abductions by creating awareness of offenders and fear of reoffending, and allows better tracking of offender activities and behaviors.

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    Megan's law was created in the United States after the rape and murder of 7-year-old Megan Kanka by a known sex offender in 1994. It requires law enforcement to notify the public about sex offenders. Megan was lured into her neighbor's house by his promise of a new puppy and killed. Her parents advocated to change the law to require communities be notified about sex offenders to help parents protect their children. The law also requires sex offenders to notify authorities of address changes to allow better monitoring. Megan's law helps prevent child abductions by creating awareness of offenders and fear of reoffending, and allows better tracking of offender activities and behaviors.

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    Megan's law was created in the United States after the rape and murder of 7-year-old Megan Kanka by a known sex offender in 1994. It requires law enforcement to notify the public about sex offenders. Megan was lured into her neighbor's house by his promise of a new puppy and killed. Her parents advocated to change the law to require communities be notified about sex offenders to help parents protect their children. The law also requires sex offenders to notify authorities of address changes to allow better monitoring. Megan's law helps prevent child abductions by creating awareness of offenders and fear of reoffending, and allows better tracking of offender activities and behaviors.

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    Meghans Law

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    Megan's law was created in the United States after the rape and murder of 7-year-old Megan Kanka by a known sex offender in 1994. It requires law enforcement to notify the public about sex offenders. Megan was lured into her neighbor's house by his promise of a new puppy and killed. Her parents advocated to change the law to require communities be notified about sex offenders to help parents protect their children. The law also requires sex offenders to notify authorities of address changes to allow better monitoring. Megan's law helps prevent child abductions by creating awareness of offenders and fear of reoffending, and allows better tracking of offender activities and behaviors.

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    Part A

    Megan’s law history


    Megan’s law history is a united states law which was created
    following the vicious rape and murder of Megan kanka a seven-
    year-old girl in 1994.Her body was found disposed in a park.
    The Law requires enforcement authorities of law to publicize
    information on sex offenders. It was done to notify the people
    on the presence of a sex crime threat in the community or area.
    Its aim was to prevent the sex offender from repeating the
    crime.
    Part B
    Megan and the role she played with the creation of Megan’s
    law
    Seven-year-old Megan was raped and murdered cold-bloodedly
    by a person well known to the family, and who lived across the
    street from where she lived. He lured her into meeting his new
    puppy in his house.
    The Kankas family grieved terribly for the loss of their daughter.
    They said in an interview, had they been aware that there was a
    sexual offender roaming in the neighborhood they wouldn’t
    have let her roam around without adult supervision, adding
    Megan would not have died.
    Having gone through the awful experienced, her parents
    Richard and Maureen pushed to change the law. They
    demanded to make it compulsory for the community to be
    notified when there is a sexual offender in it, or when one of
    the kind moves in it. They thought this would help parents take
    precautions for their children and teenagers from being victims.
    From the dreadful event, Meghan’s law requires convicted
    people for crimes committed against children, to inform the law
    enforcement authorities in case there are changes in places of
    work or even home address. It is to help keep track of them.
    It is against the law failing to disclose such information.

    Part C
    Importance of Meghan’s law and how it has helped with child
    abductions.
    Sex offenders are threats to the entire community, hence
    Megan’s law has been made effective in many state in the
    united states. Having a list of sexual offenders in every
    community has created fear among other sexual predators. The
    fear pulls down the thought of wanting to commit a sexual
    crime.
    Meghan’s law is important to the community. It creates
    awareness to the parents and guardians living in it and
    discloses information about sexual offenders hence they can
    take precautions for their children and probably preventing
    similar events of rape and murder from happening.
    The law also helps in keeping track of the sexual offender
    activities and behaviors by the community and also by the
    police. This greatly help avoid kidnappers as they are aware of
    them being monitored by the entire community.

    Meghan’s law goes as far as informing other countries and


    giving out details of the sexual offender. The details include
    facial verification on passports, to avoid offenders going to
    repeat the crime in other foreign countries. Also the counties
    have information on the visitor and they know better to keep
    them closely monitored while in their country to avoid pausing
    threats to their children and teenagers.

    In conclusion, most sex offenders are likely to commit the


    sexual crime again and therefore Meghan law is very important
    to avoid repeat of the same crimes . This way our children can
    live in a friendly environment without fear of being abducted or
    raped and parents can live happier lives as safety of their
    children is almost taken care of completely.

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