Dayton suspect completed sex offender treatment before release

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Michael James Klunder completed a months-long sex offender treatment program while he was in prison serving out sentences related to convictions in 1992 for two separate assaults and convictions, said an Iowa Department of Corrections spokesman.

In the sex offender treatment, Klunder would have been made to admit to his troublesome history, said Fred Scaletta, a spokesman for the state corrections department.

Klunder, 42, is suspected of abducting two Dayton girls on Monday. He was found dead of an apparent suicide at a property northeast of Dayton several hours after the abductions, officials said. One of the girls escaped. On Wednesday, the search continued for Kathlynn Shepard, 15, who also was abducted.

According to the Iowa Sex Offender Registry, he lived in Stratford, a town on the border of Webster and Hamilton counties about 15 miles from the girls’ hometown in north-central Iowa.

Klunder was sentenced in 1992 to up to 41 years in prison in connection with two separate kidnappings and assaults that occurred in December 1991 just a day apart. He was a registered sex offender and was released from a work release facility in 2011, records show.

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http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20130522/NEWS/130522042/Dayton-suspect-completed-sex-offender-treatment-before-release

How does anyone think it was right that he serve less than half his sentence, for his second conviction? His crimes are brutal. He should never have been released again.

The other teen from his most recent abduction is still missing.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57586078-504083/kathlynn-shepard-update-missing-iowa-teens-blood-found-investigator-says/

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1. Yeah, serial rapist/kidnappers should not be given

a third chance.

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2. I was reminded of this case by the thread about drug users getting harsher sentences

than scum like this asshole.