Top SR Letter — 8/2/05

First of all, congratulations to law enforcement in Idaho for taking another predator off the streets: John Tuggle. But what was the little girl’s mother thinking? This guy raped your 14-year-old sister, spent nine years in prison, and you let him take your daughter to “the mall?” (“Father left daughter for dead, sheriff says,” July 22). I hope there are more facts that the public has not been made aware of. There must be. Surely no mother would let her child go anywhere with such a person.

As parents it is our responsibility to protect our children, not put them in harm’s way. No one is perfect, but if this mother knowingly and freely let her daughter leave with John Tuggle, then she needs to be charged with child endangerment and perhaps CPS needs to take action.

Robert Wester
Spokane