Mandatory Juvenile Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification: The Only Viable Option to Protect All the Nation's Children
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REGISTRATION AND COMMUNITY
NOTIFICATION: THE ONLY VIABLE OPTION TO
PROTECT ALL THE NATION'S CHILDREN
Pamela S. Richardson'
If I [had] known he was a sexual offender when he was a juvenile, my
kids would not have had anything to do with him.' Rhonda Blevins
made this statement after a convicted juvenile sex offender murdered her
seven-year-old daughter, Kristi.2 On August 19, 2000, Ms. Blevins
discovered that Kristi and Kristi's twelve-year-old friend were missing.3
Ms. Blevins had been watching the children play outside her Oilton,
Oklahoma home.4 After stepping inside to use the bathroom for a few
minutes, Ms. Blevin returned to discover the children were gone.5 Later
that evening, a citywide search found the girls in an abandoned home.6
The twelve-year-old had been raped while Kristi had been strangled to
death. Police found nineteen-year-old Robert Rotramel with them.
Robert Rotramel, who lived in Oilton, saw the girls playing outside
and asked them if they wanted to see some fireworks.9 After igniting
the fireworks, Rotramel forced the girls to accompany him to an
+ J.D. Candidate, May 2003, The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of
Law. The author would like thank Professor Clifford Fishman for his guidance and
support through the writing process and Associate Editor Aric Anderson and Adam
Urbanczyk for the endless hours they spent reading and editing this Note.
1. Murder Triggers Mom's Crusade for Legal Change Legislation, L.A. TIMES, Oct.
14, 2000, at A30.
2. Id.
3. Id.
4. See id.
5. Rhett Morgan, Suspect's Record Termed Unsavory, TULSA WORLD, Aug. 23,
2000, at Al.
6. Rhett Morgan, Rotramel Backs Out of No-Parole Plea Bargain, TULSA WORLD,
Aug. 10, 2001, at Al.
7. Id.; see also Rhett Morgan, Charges Filed Against Oilton Slaying Suspect, TULSA
WORLD, Aug. 24, 2000, at Al. After an attempt by police to administer CPR, Kristi was
taken to a local hospital by medical personnel where she was pronounced dead. Id. The
cause of death was asphyxiation by strangulation. Id. The other girl was taken to a nearby
hospital where she was treated and released. Id.
8. Morgan, Charges Filed, supra note 7.
9. Rhett Morgan, Trial Ordered in Oilton Slaying, Rape, TULSA WORLD, Oct. 17,
2000. at Al.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/cathu52&div=14&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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