Very true about the irony of the whole thing. The loudest victim advocates, who also happen to profit off of their victimhood many times, end up causing more harm to others because the actions they advocate for don’t actually stop sex crimes from happening in the real world. So sad.

It’s the biggest bamboozle law ever created! When you cut through all the BS and examine it on a surface level, Adam’s legacy and memory is actually standing for scapegoating a group of people that had absoltely NOTHING to do with his death.

It makes zero sense. Think about it.. he legacy, memory and death stands for: false pretenses, false equvalene and fraudulent intent. He was kidnapped and murdered in vitious fashion and we are being witch hunted for ALL OF IT. This is Twilight Zone stuff. Yet here we are with them celebrating this 20 years later and proud of something that willl never prevent the same thing that happened to ADAM. The taxpayers are facilitating fraud while the truth is being circumvented and expolited for profit.

They’re living in a fantasy world at our expense.

Well stated @Facts and as you know there is more to this story of Mr. and Mrs. Walsh that is conveniently not spoken about to avoid further, deeper questions of it all potentially causing embarrassment. Whipping the masses into a furor with conjecture works every time.

I present to you Exhibit A:

https://www.bop.gov/news/20260727-20-years-of-the-adam-walsh-act.jsp

“Every chilld deserves a safe childhood.”

So there you have it.. that arrogance of entitlement is the template for the ruination of others.

Seems like the only thing being “exploited” is Adam’s memory – for profit!

Well said. Almost all “tough on crime” policies in the USA are tied to someone’s financial gains. From private prisons, to GPS, to federal funding , etc. Ron Book took being an absentee father to give himself more power and Lauren used her terrible victimization to create a very profitable “not for profit”. Who is worse? Those that commit these crimes which are obviously terrible crimes or those that parlayed their victimization into a way to make millions and harm just as many millions with no distinction to humanity or harm to families? Make no mistake they don’t care about society at large but only their own money making “halos”. Victims deserve justice and perpetrators deserve accountability but this is not what is happening.

I remember back in 2009, we had one of those worst case scenarios in Cincinnati. A 13 year old girl was murdered by a guy convicted of murder but also had a petty sex offense of some sort not related to the murder, but the petty offense became the local media focus.

There was a push to shut down this treatment program in the area but the family of the victim opposed that idea and spoke in support of the program. But the city council ignored the victim’s family’s pleas and passed a resolution condemning the program, then had the audacity to say they did it for the victim’s family.

I do have to add I think the results of this study might be different if conducted in the US, when being a victim can get you set for life, see John Walsh and Lauren Book and Elizabeth Smart as examples.

“You call the cops, we ALL pay the price!”

“It’s not worth it, just avoid the person (man or woman).”