This murder goes to show that GPS monitoring is fine, but what good does it do if a sex offender's movements are not monitored and restricted? For Alycia Nipp, it did no good at all.
And that's the point many critics of GPS monitoring make. If the subject's whereabouts with respect to minors are not under 24/7 surveillance, what good is it? In this case, realistically, since Darrin Sanford, 30, lived near the field where Alycia Nipp's body was eventually found, if you didn't know she was there, what good would it do?
Evan Mayo-Wilson, an Oxford University lecturer who has studied the use of GPS, told CNN:
"They can't monitor it live, and even if you could monitor it live, him being in the field wouldn't have told you he was murdering the girl."
Darrin Sanford was convicted of communicating with a minor for immoral purposes and luring minors with sexual motivation in 1998; he was sentenced to probation, but was jailed following a violation in November 2008.
He was released from jail in January and was fitted with a global positioning tracking unit on his ankle. And Sanford was still wearing the device seven weeks later when he tried to rape Alycia Nipp.
But, according to Sanford's confession, he could not complete "the act," and Alycia Nipp giggled, triggering a rage that resulted in him killing her. Sanford's arraignment, scheduled for Wednesday, has been postponed until June, according to a Clark County prosecutor.
The GPS unit was used to corroborate his confession. Unfortunately it could not protect Alycia Nipp.
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