In your editorial on Thursday, Jan. 19, you expressed an opinion which I feel is very wrong. Megan's Law is a necessity if we are to have some control over convicted sex offenders in society.

I am a resident of the town Megan Kanka is from. I was there the day the police started handing out fliers with Megan's picture on them. I was there as an entire community pulled together and helped search for one little girl. I experienced sadness when I heard that Megan had been found ... dead in a local park. To this day, six months after her death, you can still see pink ribbons up around the township in remembrance of Megan.

Had there been a law reuqiring sex offenders to be registered, Megan may still be alive today. She trusted the man who brutally raped and killed her. (He lured her into his house by telling her he had a new puppy.) Her parents could have known about the child molester living across the street from them and taken steps to protect their little girl from that monster.

Megan's Law is not a "knee-jerk" reaction as you called it. It is a well thought-out law which protects the innocent from the guilty. If you can't understand the circumstances which led up to the law being made, then don't criticize it.