ST. PAUL, Minn., March 9 (UPI) -- The boyfriend of missing University of North Dakota senior Dru Sjodin says Minnesota should lock up dangerous sex offenders and throw away the key.
Chris Lang testified Monday before the state Senate Crime Prevention and Public Safety Committee, along with two of the missing girl's relatives. Sjodin's mother was forced to cancel a scheduled appearance because of a snowstorm.
Lang asked the panel how many people must be harmed by freed sex offenders before the government takes action, the Minneapolis Star Tribune said.
Sjodin disappeared from a shopping mall parking lot in Grand Forks, N.D. last November. Her body was never found. Repeat sex offender Alfonso Rodriguez of Crookston, Minn., who has been charged with kidnapping, had been released from a Minnesota prison in May.
Republicans in the state legislature are pushing for indeterminate sentences for all felony sex offenders.
