Byron Dorgan: “this coming month it will be 2 years since the body of a young woman named Dru Sjodin was found in Crookston, MN. Dru…”

“this coming month it will be 2 years since the body of a young woman named Dru Sjodin was found in Crookston, MN. Dru Sjodin was a young woman, a college student at the University of North Dakota, who walked out of a North Dakota shopping center at about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. She was abducted, a search was made for her, and some months later her body was found near Crookston, MN. She had been brutally murdered. I have visited with her parents a number of times. The more I have come to know the details of her abduction and her murder--and since that time I have come to know the details of other abductions and murders, in many cases of young children in our country--it is clear that Congress needs to take some action to deal with some of these issues. What happened to Dru Sjodin was a vicious, almost unspeakable crime for which a man will soon be tried for murder. The man who has been arrested and will be on trial shortly for the murder of Dru Sjodin is Alfonso Rodriguez, Jr. He has served prison time for rape. He was sentenced to 23 years in prison for a violent rape. At the end of his sentence, he was deemed by prison officials-- including psychiatrists and psychologists--to be at high risk of reoffending. Despite that, he was let out of prison with little or no supervision. The State's attorney in the jurisdiction where he was prosecuted was not notified of his pending release. He was released without any significant supervision.…”